Deb Aoki | Manga Comics Manga

Faith Erin Hicks Draws Comic-Con Diary Comix

Posted by Deb Aoki on Aug 5, 2013 in News | 0 comments

Comics creator Faith Erin Hicks was one of the featured guests at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con (and was one of the panelists at Thursday’s Making a Living in Manga discussion). She had a pretty busy and fun-filled weekend, and to commemorate the highlights, she drew a special 6-page comic that was featured on Tor.com. In it, she describes the last time she came to Comic-Con five years prior, and how it set her on the road to where she is today, with several critically-acclaimed graphic novels to her name (Friends With Boys and the recently released Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, written by Prudence Shen and illustrated by Hicks, both from First Second Books), plus The Last of Us, a graphic novel adaptation of a survival/horror/adventure game for Playstation 3 from Naughty Dog/Sony Computer Entertainment, published by Dark...

New Manga and More Magazine Sparkler Monthly Debuts

Posted by Deb Aoki on Jul 29, 2013 in News | 1 comment

New original manga/prose/audio drama anthology magazine Sparkler Monthly debuted its first issue this week. See what’s included in issue 001.

This Weekend in SF: J-Pop Summit Fest

Posted by Deb Aoki on Jul 27, 2013 in Events | 0 comments

This weekend, San Francisco gets a dose of Japanese pop culture, art, music, movies, and fashion at the J-Pop Summit Festival in Japantown (Post Street between Laguna and Webster) and on Sunday, with a Jpop concert in Union Square on Sunday, with kawaii (cute) & colorful pop star Krary Pyamu Pyamu headlining. The events kick off on at 11 am on Saturday in Japantown, with the SF premiere of Evangelion 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo at New People Cinema. At 11:45 am, the Vocaloid Dance solo competition will be the featured attraction at the Peace Pavilion stage. You can see the full schedule of signings, concerts & contests to plan your weekend in JPop Land. Also at JPop Summit: a special pop-up shop event, Harajuku Kawaii! featuring colorful clothing and accessories straight from Harajuku. 6% DokiDoki designer Sebastian Masuda...