May 2008
59 posts
Tatsunoko, the production company behind many seminal and classic anime from Speed Racer and Gatchaman to Samurai Pizza Cats, has recently announced its involvement with Capcom in an upcoming fighting game - called, appropriately enough, “Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.” Released screenshots confirm that Gatchaman’s Ken and Neo-Human Casshern’s Tetsuya Azuma will be playable. ...
“Hey Ryan, the cover’s nice, but I wish Evan and you would’ve gotten...”
– SAME HAT! SAME HAT!: # posted by Rizzah
“Ryan Sands is a longtime manga nerd living in San Francisco and working in...”
– Amazon.com: Tokyo Zombie: Yusaku Hanakuma, Ryan Sands: Books
As if it needs to be restated...
Something Awful is full up with so many shitbird losers. Sometimes they really depress me and make me hate the internet.
“Sometimes readers ask us why the reviews are all pretty good. Well, the bad ones...”
– Giant Robot Blogs / Martin Wong (Great quote on the difference betweening running a blog/zine and fancying yourself a critic)
“Moving into the Q&A…they are releasing Translucent 4 and 5, even though they...”
– Fanime08: Dark Horse LiveBlog
SANSPO.COM > 芸能 →
“So yes, that does make Dave Sim the gender equivalent of a racist. It doesn’t...”
– Laura Hudson, via Journalista!
Keita Sugiura's BLACK METAL forest photography. SO... →
High Color LIFE
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Rory Root has died :(
Blog@Newsarama » Retailer Rory Root - Updated Joe Field passes on the very sad news: Difficult news today— Rory Root, owner of Berkeley CA’s (and world-famous) COMIC RELIEF, is in a coma in an Oakland CA hospital. …Rory has had a number of health issues in recent years. His latest seems to stem from a ruptured hernia that requires extensive surgery this past weekend. UPDATE: Field has...
Carl Horn remembers Rory Root
Bay Area comic store pioneer Rory Root passed away today Carl Horn - May 20th, 2008 at 2:02 am I remember buying issue #1 of the Epic edition of AKIRA at Comic Relief in 1988. Its original site was only three blocks from where Animag, the ancestor of Animerica magazine, was edited, and four blocks from the meeting site of Cal-Animage Alpha, then the largest anime club in the...
Bizarre Artist #3: Mickey Colette →
She graduated from RISD last year. She does comics, weird pin-ups, posters, coloring books, etc…
Bizarre Artist #2: Fuco Ueda →
You’ve probably seen this stuff before, maybe :C
Bizarre Artist #1: Charlie Immer →
This guy just graduated from RISD. He likes to paint goo!
Amazon.com listing for Tokyo Zombie! →
UP & RUNNING
We’re just getting started here, but I like how it’s turning out. Let’s get some other contributors started and see how this thing goes. I’m planning to share it with everyone via the BLOG this week!
