Manga news, reviews and interviews by Deb Aoki

Webcomic Heroine Delilah Dirk Redrawn as a Cat

Posted by on Aug 5, 2013 in News | 1 comment

Swashbuckling thief/heroine/adventure-seeker Delilah Dirk is re-imagined as a felonious feline in this one-shot webcomic freebie by Tony Cliff on Tor.com

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Faith Erin Hicks Draws Comic-Con Diary Comix

Posted by 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...

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New Manga and More Magazine Sparkler Monthly Debuts

Posted by 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.

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SDCC 2013: Joe Ng Sketches Akuma from Street Fighter

Posted by on Jul 25, 2013 in News | 0 comments

See the magic happen as Joe Ng draws Akuma from Street Fighter in this video clip from San Diego Comic-Con 2013.

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SDCC 2013: Audio from “Best & Worst Manga” Panel

Posted by on Jul 24, 2013 in News | 0 comments

Hear the rants, the raves, the laughs and the gasps of horror from this audiocast of the Best and Worst Manga of 2013 panel from San Diego Comic-Con.

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SDCC 2013: 20th Century Boys Chalks Up 2nd Eisners Win

Posted by on Jul 23, 2013 in News | 0 comments

Naoki Urasawa chalked up a second Eisner Awards win at San Diego Comic-Con 2013. See this, and other notable wins from this annual awards ceremony.

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