OsamuTezuka

Rather than mess around with selling books individually, independent comics and art-magazine publisher PictureBox is offering an interesting deal for its 2013 offerings: Pay them $300 and get everything they publish. (Link is NSFW.) Among those offerings...

Fundraisers: Artist Sebastian Alappat has released "The Alphabat" print, which is now available for purchase online. All proceeds will be donated to the Aurora Victims Relief Fund. Movies: Entertainment One has acquired the worldwide rights to a (possibly live-action) television series based on Osamu Tezuka's medical adventure manga Black Jack...

Toys: Starting in July two new variant Marvel Select figures of The Amazing Spider-Man will arrive at MarvelStore.com, DisneyStore.com and physical Disney Store locations: one with swappable "unmasking" body parts and one that's entirely metallic...

You've no doubt heard Martin Mull's often cited observation that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I wonder what Mull would think of dancing about manga? That's just what Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is attempting through his TeZukA, a multimedia dance show that explores the biography, work and influence of Osamu Tezuka, the "godfather of manga" and t

Eats: Capcom Bar will serve dishes based on its Resident Evil and Phoenix Wright games, among others, when it opens in Japan on January 25. Manga: Digital Manga will bring Osamu Tezuka's Barbara manga in North America following last week's successful fundraising efforts on Kickstarter...

Webcomics: Behold! The cover to Dark Horse Comics' debut volume of Axe Cop has arrived. History: As one of comics' most prolific creators, Osamu Tezuka had to have some way to decompress. Enter his "secret room." Movies: James Gunn's Super, starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon on April 1, 2011...

Between the regular Daylight Savings Time reminders to change the battery in your smoke detector to Spider-Man taking time out of his busy schedule of web-slinging and Goblin-punching to talk to the kids, the very important topic of Fire Safety has been on my mind quite a bit lately...

Imagine a volume reprinting the notebook pages on which Captain America and Fantastic Four creator Jack Kirby first scribbled and sketched the concepts that would become his most famous works, including dialogue, back-story, character designs and more, all in the King's own hand...

One of the great all-time masters of manga, "Astro Boy" creator Osamu Tezuka has certainly helped create his share of legendary anime series as well. But until Dash Shaw pointed it out at Comics Comics, I was unaware that Tezuka had made an X-Rated animated film about Cleopatra ( a...

Crossover: Still reeling from the "Mad Men" finale? Check out yet another Don Draper mashup with comics -- this time of the Batman variety. (Newsarama) TV: Jackie Brown makes her way to Smallville with the arrival of Pam Grier in a recurring role as Amanda Waller in the 9th season of the Superman show in episodes scripted by DC Comics writer Geoff Johns...