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Viz Media May Have the Best Digital Distribution Yet in Comics [Review]
Viz Media May Have the Best Digital Distribution Yet in Comics [Review]
Viz Media May Have the Best Digital Distribution Yet in Comics [Review]
The manga industry sorely needs a workable digital distribution model. Manga piracy has become deeply ingrained in the culture of its readers, and publishers need to attempt to offer solutions for the people who pirate manga because the volumes they want aren't available locally or in a format they enjoy, rather than those who pirate just to get free manga or despise the official translations... R
U.S. Citizen Charged in Canada for Manga on Laptop, Faces Minimum 1 Year in Prison
U.S. Citizen Charged in Canada for Manga on Laptop, Faces Minimum 1 Year in Prison
U.S. Citizen Charged in Canada for Manga on Laptop, Faces Minimum 1 Year in Prison
After the recent seizure of comics at the Canadian border from creators on their way to the Toronto Comics Art Festival -- and an official advisory from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund on the aggressive searches of comics fans at Canadian customs -- ComicsAlliance posted a series of tips on how to protect yourself when crossing the border into Canada with either printed comics or digital version
Gritty Is The New Pretty: Q Hayashida’s ‘Dorohedoro’
Gritty Is The New Pretty: Q Hayashida’s ‘Dorohedoro’
Gritty Is The New Pretty: Q Hayashida’s ‘Dorohedoro’
Between Simon Bisley's fantastic turns on Hellblazer, Juan Jose Ryp's fantastically ugly art on Wolverine: The Best There Is, and Jerome Opeña and Dean White's moody, grimy work on Uncanny X-Force, it looks like the Big Two are ready to find beauty in the grotesque once again. I thi...
The Manga Industry Speaks: Taking Stock in Tough Times
The Manga Industry Speaks: Taking Stock in Tough Times
The Manga Industry Speaks: Taking Stock in Tough Times
As part of our recent editorial about the upheaval in the manga industry, ComicsAlliance had a chance to speak with some of the most influential tastemakers working at American manga publishers today, and their answers were so frank and informative that we thought they deserved their own feature...
Upheaval in the Manga Industry: Piracy, Scanlations, and the Future of Digital Manga
Upheaval in the Manga Industry: Piracy, Scanlations, and the Future of Digital Manga
Upheaval in the Manga Industry: Piracy, Scanlations, and the Future of Digital Manga
In the past few years the manga industry has experienced upheaval, to put it lightly. A number of seemingly unconnected, but pressing, issues have turned into a perfect storm of sudden, dramatic change. Online manga piracy, generally conducted in the open on sites that contain thousands of pages of copyrighted work, finally reached the point where publishers could no longer turn a blind eye to ot
Yotsuba&!: The Cure for Depression
Yotsuba&!: The Cure for Depression
Yotsuba&!: The Cure for Depression
For people not in the know, the manga "Yotsuba&!" -- the story of a young girl and her endlessly patient, endlessly suffering adoptive father after their move into a new town-- is probably the most hilarious and joyful comic on the stands. Yo...
Man Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Buying Lolicon Manga
Man Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Buying Lolicon Manga
Man Sentenced to 6 Months in Prison for Buying Lolicon Manga
Manga collector Christopher Handley was sentenced to 6 months in prison last Thursday, after importing lolicon and yaoi manga from Japan that the federal government deemed obscene and prosecuted under the PROTECT Act of 2003, which states that any obscene illustrations, sculptures, computer-generated pictures or other imagery that depicts minors in sexual situations will be treated no differently
The Seven Most Amazingly Shojo Moments In "X-Men: Misfits"
The Seven Most Amazingly Shojo Moments In "X-Men: Misfits"
The Seven Most Amazingly Shojo Moments In "X-Men: Misfits"
The recently released "X-Men: Misfits" by Raina Telgemeier, Dave Roman, and AnZu is the second book to come out from a deal allowing Del Rey to produce Original English Language manga stories starring Marvel characters. The first, "Wolverine: Prodigal Son," hit shelves last year, and while that book was based around the speed-lines and karate face-kicks of action manga, "M
Gossip Girl Manga Brings Giant Eyes, King Hippo Hats to Upper East Side
Gossip Girl Manga Brings Giant Eyes, King Hippo Hats to Upper East Side
Gossip Girl Manga Brings Giant Eyes, King Hippo Hats to Upper East Side
A manga adaptation of "Gossip Girl" is coming out in a week or so from Yen Press! Technically, it should probably be called "manhwa" since artist/writer HyeKyung Baek is Korean, but since most of America still can't pronounce "sudoku" correctly and continually refers to the popular monster fighting series as "Pokeyman," perhaps asking them to learn a whole o

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