The MuseumofModernArt in New York opened a new exhibition this week called Pixar: 20 Years of Animation. It is filled with paintings, drawings, sculptures -- all the traditional tools of animation. Featuring over 500 works of original art on loan for t...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONS
James Horner’s music for the new Mel Gibson film, Apocalypto, an adventure drama about the decline of the Mayan Empire, is compellingly environmental and atmospheric, avoiding the kind of large, bombastic...
...ed at the MuseumofModernArt as partof the 1995 New Films/New Directors series. An interesting effort, the film shows much of the potential that later came to fruition in MORE. The simple story involves two characters locked in a humdrum existence i...
After converting the bulk of our DVD collection to thinpaks in order to conserve space, we ended up with a huge stack of empty art boxes. Rather than just have them laying around here or being put in storage...
OK, quick question…Is comic book art better today than it was 25 years ago? I’m betting most of you will say yes. You may be right, but then again, you may be wrong. It’s an ages old argument when comparing eras. You...
One of the strange, baffling, but ultimately intriguing oddities of midnight cult cinema was THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, a low-budget movie that appeared on a handful of screens in the early 1980s. The visual style of the black-and-white effort--with its expressi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Junji ItoTranslated by:Naomi KokuboAdapted by:Naomi KokuboWhat They SayDark Horse Comics is Proud to present Museumof Terror, a series of horror stories by Japan\'s foremost creator of horror manga - Junji Ito. Full of compe...
Tokyo, March 30, 2007
After Film Comment Selects, Mamoru Oshii's movie "Tachigui: The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters" (original title: Tachiguishi Retsuden,
2006) comes back to the United States to be screened at the 5th Cherry Blossom Anime Mar...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Junji ItoTranslated by:Naomi KokuboAdapted by:What They SayMuseumof Terror volumes one and two introduced readers to the horrific, beautiful creature Tomie... the woman no man could resist. Now Junji Ito, creator and curator ...
I don't think there isn't a fan of books based on the art concepts of a movie. It just seems that one of the best parts of making any film is the phase when the production design team is spitballing the visual look of the film, tossing out different ideas...
Well, folks, we've finally come to the end of a long journey or rather I have, as the main comics columnist for CINESCAPE. I hope you've enjoyed these columns as much as I've enjoyed writing them, and if you'd like to keep up with my future work, Google ...
Jeff Smith truly has lived the American Dream…he found one thing he liked to do and he’s done it for his entire life. OK, that may be simplifying things a bit. But even as a child, Smith knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. In fa...
The long-awaited comeback film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles picks up directly from the pioneering space opera that first aired on television in 1985. The breathtaking animated movie combines the talents ofartists, producers, musicians, and actors from...
The long-awaited comeback film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles picks up directly from the pioneering space opera that first aired on television in 1985. The breathtaking animated movie combines the talents ofartists, producers, musicians, and actors from...
In terms of erotic art, nothing quite goes together like medieval weaponry, taut flesh and larger-than-life curves. From the outset of fantasy literature, genre-based erotic art has provided a focal point for the imagination and an oftentimes necessary co...
In Part One of our conversation with Richard Elfman , the director discussed the travails of shooting a decidedly non-P.C. movie on a restricted budget and schedule. In Part Two, he assesses the finished work, and places it within the context of his previ...
Comics2film's
Rhonda Hearon recently had a chance to chat with up and coming new artist David Morán, also know as the Digital Concept Gallery artist
Marrow2000. David
is a twenty year old art student currently living in Santa Ana, California, but
he'...
Ever since exotic documentary features such as NANOOK OF THE NORTH and GRASS made a hit with the public, less honest filmmakers have been rolling into theaters with documentaries of their own. Staples of the roadshow circuits, these features were often bu...
These are segments from the replies that you, the readers, have sent in. These particular ones relate to a topic that is quite important to me, the censorship of shoujo anime. The following quotes from you guys will be in bold text (those parts are the qu...
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Weekly was given an X2 Exclusive with the publication
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GRIMES, IA, September 10, 2007 " Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc./Nozomi Entertainment and Kadokawa Pictures USA are pleased to unveil the artwork for the collectible box and extras that will be released with th...
Comics2Film
readers have been reading intermittent reports about a cartoon version of Jay
Stephens' Tutenstein strip for years. We can finally report that
the show has a firm air date of June 14th, 2003.
The show is
being produced by Porchlight Ent...
Mother of Tears (known as La Terza Madre in Italy) is a film by Italian horror master Dario Argento. The film serves as the concluding part to his horror trilogy began back in 1977 with Suspira and continuing with Inferno in 1980. 27 y...
Several new pieces of upcoming artwork has been added to the listings last night which you can find in one handy list that\'s updated as it happens here. Titles in this round include Dragon Ball Z Movie 13: Wrath of the Dragon Uncut, Genshiken: Society f...
What They Say20-year-old Sorata is an art instructor at Yamanoue School. Usually he\'s a mousy, nerdy teacher, but Sorata has a secret... he\'s also the internationally infamous thief Mouse, and he\'s a shameless flirt to boot!
Assisted by his three gor...
What They SayRui, Hitomi and Ai are three beautiful sisters who spend their days running their cute cafe - but when night falls, the claws come out! The trio transforms into Cat\'s Eye, the super and sexy art thieves! But there\'s more than meets the eye:...
What They SayIt is Sasahara\'s first day of college, and a fateful choice awaits him. Which college clubs will he choose to join? But Sasahara is no ordinary young man; a dark secret lurks within his soul. For one thing, he knows what \"cosplay\" is, and ...
Tarzan: `Why does a millionaire dress in a costume and hurl himself from rooftops?`Batman: `Why does a noblemen live in the jungle and hurl himself from the treetops?`The one thing Batman & Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman makes abundantly clear to me is thi...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Yoshitaka Amano / Hideyuki KikuchiTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayFollowing on the heels of the retrospective Coffin comes this new collection of paintings, line-art illustrations, and photography by Vampire Hunter...
Last year Running Press gave comic book fans the very cool Marvel Vault, a “Museum in a Book” as they refer to it. This year Running Press is back with the DC Vault. If you haven’t seen the Marvel Vault these books are part history boo...
ShockTillYouDrop.com exclusively revealed the first look at concept art from the big-screen adaptation of Steve Niles 'Wake the Dead'.
The film, a modern-day revamp of Frankenstein set on a college campus, is set up with Jay Russell directing and Holding...
Thespian Hank Azaria won't be spreading the laughs he usually creates with his voice talents from "The Simpsons". In an interview with MTV, the actor has revealed some information for the upcoming Fox sequel Night at the Museum 2: Escape from th...
Last year Running Press gave comic book fans the very cool Marvel Vault, a “Museum in a Book” as they refer to it. This year Running Press is back with the DC Vault. If you haven’t seen the Marvel Vault these books are ...
Were this episode what it was meant to be, a midseason ender, it would have been excellent, but because the series isn’t being brought back for a few more episodes like so many other series post strike, I have to look at it as a season finale. ...
In less than a week,
Hollywood will descend on Comic-Con
International in San Diego in search of the next hot property. This is the
latest in a series ofarticles designed to guide hungry producers towards comics
of interest at the show.
You'll b...
HOUSTON, May 28, 2004?ADV Manga today announced its July 2004 street dates. Included in the lineup are new titles: Apocalypse Meow, Jinki: Extend, Gadirok and The Boss.
Apocalypse Meow, Volume 1 of 3
Yes, you read that right. Apocalypse Meow is a manga...
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Pop Japan Travel's Mind Over Manga tour this Aug. 21 to 27 offers guests the unprecendented chance to print their own comic in Japanese and sell it directly to Japanese customers at Comitia, one of Tok...
HOUSTON, May 28, 2004?ADV Manga today announced its July 2004 street dates. Included in the lineup are new titles: Apocalypse Meow, Jinki: Extend, Gadirok and The Boss.
Apocalypse Meow, Volume 1 of 3
Yes, you read that right. Apocalypse Meow is a manga...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Jablonsky's latest score, for Michael Bay's sci-fi thriller THE ISLAND, is now available on Milan Records (M2-36132). The score opens with a tantalizing air of surging orchestra and choir, building a powerful resonance that is ...
By Robert Stanton (rstanton@uiuc.edu)
Boogiepop Phantom is an animated series based upon the acclaimed written work of Kouhei Kadono. Set somewhere in common, urban, contemporary Japan, the dark science fiction premises of the show quickly take over and...
Warm applause from an audience of about 150 people greeted legendary filmmaker Roger Corman as he sat on the front stage of a discussion panel titled `Efficient Effects.` Corman was in Vancouver, Canada attending the 15th Annual Film and Television Trade ...
By Robert Stanton (rstanton@uiuc.edu)
Boogiepop Phantom is an animated series based upon the acclaimed written work of Kouhei Kadono. Set somewhere in common, urban, contemporary Japan, the dark science fiction premises of the show quickly take over and...
OPINION: I'm not entirely sure why, but I got neither death threats nor a lot of positive feedback on last week's musings about Captain America. I hope that doesn't mean no one cares about the old man anymore... My thanks, though, to the two(!) readers wh...
When I first started writing about the comic book industry, one of the first people in the industry that I became fast friends with was colorist Laura Martin. She was working with the online magazine, Sequential Tart and coloring a multitude of proj...
New Editions Are Must-Haves for 2006 Holiday Season and Will Delight Manga and Anime Fans
San Francisco, CA, September 12, 2006 " VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation an...
It's back by popular demand: The old Comics2Film Fan Art Gallery has been transported over to Mania.com and is now open for business.
Praised by the likes of Guillermo del Toro and one of the most popular features of the previous site, the Fan Art Galle...
Genre:Thriller/Mystery.Studio:Columbia Pictures.Production Company:Imagine Entertainment.Project Phase:Script stage.Who's In It:Unknown.Who's Making It:Ron Howard (Director); Brian Grazer (Producer); Akiva Goldsman (Screenwriter); based on the novel The ...
Welcome to the
latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is
Rhonda, the one and only WonderWomanGoddess.
Comics2Film (C2F):
When and how did you start doing photomanips?
WonderWomanGoddess (WWG):
I had been a lifelong comic fan, and one...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Studio GhibliTranslated by:Yuji OnikiAdapted by:What They SayBased on the novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE, Hayao Miyazaki brings to life a fantastical time in 19th century Europe, when sci...
Action figures and comic books are inexorably linked, from the comic strip style advertising for the earliest figures to the current dominance of superhero-based figures in the collectable market. It should come as no surprise, then, that the independent ...
The Review!It's been a while but with 7 volumes released already, I'll continue with volume 2 and work all my way to volume 7.
In the first episode of this disc, a toy store has recently opened near the school Sakura goes to. In it, there are all sorts o...
A great look at the disc art and box art, as well as specs, have been provided for the four-disc "Fantastic Four" box set, collecting the 26 episodes animated series from the 1990s.
If the folks behind Black Scorpion know how to do a TV show as well as they know how to do a press conference, then look out. Sure, their soiree at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles last week was all about shameless self-promotion and photo op...
Warner Home Video has sent The World's Finest a look at the revised cover art and the newly revealed back art for their upcoming "Superman/Doomsday" release.
What They Say\"Many people have searched for it, many have stolen it, and many will kill for it. The Gad is a seemingly magical stone which, once making a strong spiritual connection with someone, will grow into a very powerful robot known as a Techode - ...
What They SayTHEIR PARADISE WAS A DECEPTION... The youth of Tatsumiya Island believed that they had ordinary lives until extraterrestrials called Festums invaded their island. In the midst of the sudden chaos, their once peaceful island transforms into a ...
Greetings, COMICSCAPE faithful, and welcome to another week of watching your credit card bill skyrocket like the national deficit. Yes, I'm hooked, too. So, don't feel bad. You've only got your wife to answer to. This week features the second (and much lo...
BREAKING OUT OF PRISON WAS NEVER THIS MUCH…FUN?
"Dead Leaves Literally Resembles An Abstract, Full-Throttle Action Comic Leaping To Life Right Off The Page." - NEWTYPE Magazine
Chicago, IL - Manga Entertainment has once again teamed-up with Japan'...
Sometimes death sneaks up on you. I had every intention of devoting this week’s Comicscape to an in-depth look at the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, which premiered last week to both box office success and mostly positive cri...
The biggest star this week isn’t an alien, or wizard, or vampire but a space ship! Specifically it’s the Millennium Falcon and Star Wars’ most famous ship is the subject of the latest novel in the SW universe from Del Rey Bo...
The Review!Rating:
Video Quality: ****1/2 out of *****
Audio Qualty: ***** out of *****
Japanese Language Track: ***** out of *****
English Language Track: ***** out of *****
French Language Track: N/A
Packaging: ****1/2 out of *****
Menus: **** ou...
What They SayA god of unparalleled evil lurks at the edge of the Game World. This vile creature, Makuamuuge, declares a revolt against the Game World and sends his loyal and steadfast foot soldiers into the Human World to unleash his master plan. Not if ...
What They SayMixed marriages are a tricky thing, so when the human Kenji and Milfa, an elf, get married, the course of true love does not run smoothly... especially when it turns out that there�s a certain difference in plumbing that makes it almost imp...
We may have issues with the quality (and source) of their transfers. We may not review their titles due to their refusal to send screeners. But everyone has to agree that Alpha Video has some of the most eye catching covers on their DVDs. In fact, they're...
I have just seen the most wondrous film. It's anime, and it's domestically licensed, although I highly doubt most of you have seen it. In fact, I'm willing to bet almost nobody reading this has.
Most anime fans have evangelized about a particular title b...
Visitors Invited To The VIZ Media Manga Café And Lounge To Sample An Array Of Animation And Manga
San Francisco, CA, February 5, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, an...
E. Elias Merhige isn`t your typical horror movie director, and Shadow of the Vampire isn`t your typical horror film. It`s debatable as to whether it`s horror film at all, really, for the true villain of the story isn`t a bloodsucking fiend but a modern-ag...
I have been a huge fan of fantasy art ever since I saw my first Frank Frazetta cover on one of those old Ace paperbacks Conan books. Today, fantasy art is as diverse as its ever been. What used to be a lot of warriors, wizards, faeries and drago...
What They SayFull of exciting adventure and great passion, this animated Japanese favorite tells the legendary tale of the mythological hero Hermes. The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beautiful ...
BBC Video and CBS/FOX Home Entertainment continue their service to American Whovians by adding to their treasure trove of DR. WHO releases with `The Space Museum,` the 15th adventure of our favorite time traveler in the guise of his first face, the entert...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hinako AshiharaTranslated by:Takae BrewerAdapted by:What They SayAfter a serious and discouraging injury, Aya - an accomplished ballet dancer - is inspired to dance again by the all-male COOL troupe. In fact, she's never wante...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Snow Fox, Rodbere, Milky Cat, Karen Lyon, Sarah Maeder, Ranefea, Chibi Jazine, GTKTranslated by:Adapted by:What They SayArtof Otaku is a personality-injected \"how to draw anime\" solution from the creators of theOtaku.com, o...
March 2008 Issue Features Original Cover Illustration By Noted Comic Book Artist
Bryan Lee O’Malley And A Range OfArticles On Manga Art And Video Game Design
San Francisco, CA, February 12, 2008 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the
enter...
I got into the indy comics scene late, so I never heard of David Hine until a few years ago when he began working for the stateside offices of Marvel Comics. In a short space of time there were a few Marvel miniseries: Daredevil Redemption, Son of M., th...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Reiko ShimizuTranslated by:Jonathan TarboxAdapted by:Jonathan TarboxWhat They SayA mysterious boy may hold the secret of Earth's fate. But if he has no memory, who will save the world?
According to prophecy, a half-mermaid, ...
Media Blasters
Rurouni Kenshin Fanart Contest
Rules:
- Art is to be totally original (This means NO coping of existing Japanese artwork).
- Art must be of a tasteful subject matter (Nothing naughty now).
- Final artwork must fit into the proportions o...
Greetings, hail and well met, and happy Thanksgiving to all of you, my loyal readership! Ordinarily, holidays stab comic readers as a thorn in the side, because the darlings at UPS push their deliveries back a day and we don't get our fix until Thursday (...
Interviewer: Way Jeng
This column is in the process of being a brief discussion, and one of the greatest treats is being able to discuss anime and dubs with the people who make it happen. Today we've got an interview with the talented Colleen Clinkenbear...
I think like a lot of people, my first exposure to the artof Frank Frazetta was the old Lancer/Ace Conan paperback book covers. I think I was around 12 or 13 and had never heard of Conan and bought one of the books, I think Conan of Cimmeria, just b...
Helmer Brett Ratner has been talking quite a bit about what we can expect from the coming RED DRAGON remake.While talking to Fred Topol of About.com's Action-Adevnture Movies page, Ratner spoke of the original film version of the book directed by Michael ...
Genre:Adventure/Comic Book Adaptation.Studio:20th Century Fox.Production Company:1492 Pictures.Project Phase:Released.Who's In It:Ioan Gruffudd (Reed Richards/"Mr. Fantastic"); Michael Chiklis (Benjamin J. Grimm/"The Thing"); Jessica Alba (Susan "Sue" Sto...
On Saturday, July 2, Live 8 staged concerts in various cities around the world (Philadelphia, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, and more), with over 100 artists, a million spectators, and 2 billion viewers, to help end poverty in Africa by encouraging the G8 n...
Highlighting this week’s new releases is Two to the Fifth the latest Xanth novel from Piers Anthony, the thirty-second book in the long-running fantasy series. You can read an excerpt by visiting here: Two to the Fifth Excerpt.
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Creative TalentWriter/Artist:MarleyTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayBorn into a shaman family, Sunbi has inherited the power to see and communicate with spirits just like her grandmother, a notable shaman and savior of their little fishing village...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tony Wong/Andy SetoTranslated by:Yun ZhaoAdapted by:What They SayThe epic kung fu whodunit continues as Master Zhuge and his four Imperial Constables come ever-closer to solving the decades-old mystery behind the 13 masked ass...
Dear Maniacs, I have wanted to write comics for a very long time. And now, Dead Souls, my first miniseries is finally coming out. I can’t believe that I can finally say those words. A process I began over five years ago has finally co...
Each volume available for a new $9.99 SRP on June 24, 2008
GRIMES, IA, March 20, 2008 - Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc. and Nozomi Entertainment are pleased to announce all three volumes of PIANO: THE MELODY OF A YOUNG GIRL'S HEART will be...
Dynamic, interactive exhibit on Japanese pop art and culture to tour children's museums and feature VIZ anime and manga content.
San Francisco, Calif, January 22, 2004 - VIZ, LLC, one of the leading publishers and distributors of manga and anime for Nort...
What They SayTOKYOLOGY is a documentary exploring contemporary Japanese pop-culture.
Vicariously experience the diverse and colorful attractions of the world\'s largest city, as
Carrie Ann Inaba guides you through the legendary crowds of Tokyo.
Have ...
Welcome to another fun-filled week at COMICSCAPE! Last week I asked you to write in with your thoughts regarding Marvel's hiring of Orson Scott Card to write ULTIMATE IRON MAN. The problem, according to many gay and lesbian comics fans, is that Card has w...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tamakoshi HiroyukiTranslated by:David UryAdapted by:What They SayTHE SECRET'S OUT
Kouhei's childhood friend Kurara returns from her vacation in Hawaii with more than just a tan. It turns out that something went terribly wrong...
ARIA Vol.#01 by Eduardo M. Chavez (Sat 05-22-2004)
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Amano KozueTranslated by:Kay BertrandAdapted by:What They SayON THE PLANET AQUA, a world once known as Mars, Akari Mizunashi has just made her home in the town of Neo-Venezia, a futuristic imitation of the ancient city of Veni...
From where I stand, the publication of a bimonthly magazine as explicit and diverse as AG is something of a change in the winds. Until very recently, the majority (what little that actually was) of erotic manga published in the US was done so by Eros Co...
American blues legend BB King celebrates his 80th birthday on September 16th but commemorated the occasion early last month when he attended the dedication of a $10 million museum near his birthplace. Groundbreaking began June 10th on the museum dedicat...
I never really got a chance to check out Mike Allred's series THE ATOMICS, but his work on X-STATIX (formerly and more properly X-FORCE) and the SPACEMAN one-shot is enough to make me want to go back and buy the entire run. In a field where more and more ...
Warner Bros. has alerted us as to where the new trailer for THE LAST SAMURAI is online. Scheduled for release on December 5, Tom Cruise plays a burned-out 19th century Civil War hero who takes a job to train Japanese troops in the artofmodern combat. In...
...ir at the MuseumofModernArts. At the fair, we had a chance to have the upcoming lineup demoed to us, and a chance to play the games. I already had a lot of the games back with my debug PS2, but the big opportunity for me was to play a new build of G...
ZIMMER'S LAST SAMURAIOn November 25, 2003, Elektra Records will release Hans Zimmer's score from THE LAST SAMURAI, an epic action drama starring Tom Cruise. The film marks a career milestone for Zimmer: his 100th film score. A pioneer in the use of synthe...
Many of Jack Kirby’s New Gods have died in the pages of Countdown and a handful of other DC titles. Now, veteran comics scribe and artist Jim Starlin brings the murders to a head as Darkseid and the other antithetical villains of Apokalips move...
Oni Press in November will launch THREE DAYS IN EUROPE, a five-issue mini-series starring two New York City lovers whose relationship is put to the test on a getaway that is anything but typical.THREE DAYS IN EUROPE, a romantic comedy, is written by Anton...
SAN JOSE, CA - April, 2008 - DrMaster Publications has announced that The King of Fighters Art Book by Wing Yan & King Tung, Puri Puri vol. 5 by Chiaki Taro, and the long-awaited return of Dark Edge vol. 7 by Yu Aikawa, are all available now!
The King o...
It's the week of
Comic-Con
International in San Diego continues and Comics2Film is here with
another tip for producers who will be heading down to the show looking
for the next coolness.
Today Aaron Sowd paints a
grim canvas for "Dark Art".
...
Be careful when setting up elaborate schemes to steal your best friend’s wife, he‘ll come back and make your life miserable.
Creative Talent: Writer/Artist: Yura AriwaraTranslator: N/AAdaptation: N/A
What They Say:"To those who betraye...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ishida Ira/Aritou SenaTranslated by:Duane JohnsonAdapted by:What They SayThe streets of IKEBUKURO WEST GATE PARK are notoriously crazy, but when the drug underworld brings Makoto face-to-face with a girl from his past, things ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Min-Woo HyungTranslated by:Youngju RyuAdapted by:What They SayThis slipcased volume uses special printing techniques and high-quality paper to present the artist's work as it was meant to be viewed. It includes never-before-se...
Warner Bros. has decided to clean out their stock of DVDs of the supernatural law firm thriller DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, the Steve McQueen cop action flick BULLIT, the Man vs. Nature adventure THE PERFECT STORM, the director's cut of ALEXANDER, the historic epic...
What They SayPom Poko is a tale of the clash between modern civilization and the natural world. The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their forest by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food an...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Minekura KazuyaTranslated by:Alethea and Athena NibleyAdapted by:What They SayJOURNEY TO THE MAX
It was a time of chaos, when Heaven and Earth were as one, and humans and demons - the youkai - lived together in peace. The foun...
OPINION: I hope everyone has survived that drear and miserable holiday known as Valentine's Day - and that, if you're in my city celebrating Mardi Gras, you're surviving as best you can. You should pop me an e-mail if you'd like to meet for a drink, too, ...
Due out this November from the Marvel Comics line of hero books: INCREDIBLE HULK #34Cover by Kaare AndrewsWritten by Bruce Jones; art by John Romita, Jr. and Tom PalmerBeginning a new era as legendary horror comics' writer Bruce Jones (Creepy, Eerie), pen...
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Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story/Art: Bunjuro Nakayama, Bow DitamaTranslated by:Jeremiah BourkeAdapted by:What They SaySweet, sexy and lethal, government battle android turned domestic servant Mahoro proves the be the perfect companion for the recently ...
When David S. Goyer was growing up in Michigan, he was left in the care of a grizzled Vietnam vet named Norm, owner of the local comic book shop. "He was sort of an unofficial baby sitter," Goyer explains during an interview at the Cartoon ArtMuseum in S...
Updated August 8th
Congratulations to Bellygrub!
This Abish prize package is yours!
Qee! What's a Qee? We're not really sure but it looks cool and we've got one for ya!
'Hellboy: Blood and Iron' is the second amazing animated feature starrin...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Artist: Yoshitaka Amano Text: Anri Ito and Junichi ImuraTranslated by:Rachel NachtAdapted by:What They SayYoshitaka Amano has been praised around the world for his lush watercolors and evocative work dealing with myth and l...
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Sequel.Studio: Walt Disney Pictures.Production Company: Unknown.Project Phase: Development Hell.Who's In It: No one confirmed as yet.Who's Making It: Steven Lisberger (Director, possibly); Steven Lisberger, Richard Jeffries ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ariyoshi KyokoTranslated by:Maya PerryAdapted by:What They SayA young girl dreams of becoming a beautiful prima ballerina! But there are many challenges on the way to the top of the professional dance world.
Masumi learns str...
Now it's THE DOLL MASTER's turn to be remade for English-speaking audiences. The original film was a South Korean horror film titled INHYEONGSA released earlier this year written and directed by Yong-ki Jeong, followed a group of young adults who visit a ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tomoko NinomiyaTranslated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:Ikoi HiroeWhat They SayParis is full of young lovers and aspiring artists. Nodame and Chiaki happen to be both, but soon they may have to make a choice! It seems that the more ...
It's a reunion of Oscar-winners who'll work on THE DA VINCI CODE, the religious-themed thriller in development at Columbia Pictures. Director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who all won Oscars for A BEAUTIFUL MIND, will ...
What They SayAnimation by Japanese powerhouse Gonzo (Blue Submarine No.6, Gate Keepers, Vandread) and a top-notch production cast: Screenplay by Chiaki J. Konaka (Lain, Armitage Polymatrix, The Big O); Supervising Director: Umanosuke Iida (Gundam 08th MS ...
Columbia Pictures has picked up the movie rights to THE DA VINCI CODE, the bestselling novel written by Dan Brown. In fact,the studio has purchased the rights to all of Brown's novels that star DA VINCI professor Robert Langdon. CODE is the second book to...
What They SayJimmy Kudo is a cocky teenage detective, known far and wide for his crime solving skills. While working a particularly gruesome case, Kudo is attacked in the darkness by two strange men and force-fed an experimental drug. The strong poison re...
Neal Asher releases the newest Polity novel, McKenna continues the Aldabreshin Compass series, and Black Library author Ben Counter takes over the reins of the newest Horus Heresy installment this week. Happy Tuesday everyone! A handful of fantasy sagas a...
Hank Azaria has been cast in two high-profile upcoming genre films this morning, says the Hollywood Reporter. The trade reports Azaria getting cast as an all-powerful Egyptian pharaoh named Kah Mun Rah in Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian...
Welcome to the latest edition of the DCG Artist Spotlight!
Our victim today is Effektdmentality.
Comics2Film (C2F):
How and why did you start drawing? How about manipping?
Effektdmentality (EM):
I've been drawing as long as I can remember. My birth moth...
Four historical figures have been added to the story for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, says The Hollywood Reporter. Actors Christopher Guest, Jon Bernthal Bill Hader and French actor Alain Chabat. You can check out which characters...
After a lot of announcements, Artof Magic, the sequel to the famous fantasy blockbuster Magic and Mayhem appeared on the market. Bethesda Softworks managed to publish the game in spite of the chaotic situation with Charybdis designers who were, in the me...
Friday also means that we\'ve updated our empty art box contest with a new winner. Katherine Davis has picked up our Tsubasa empty art box today! We\'ve rolled the contest over by putting up the Eureka Seven 2nd Empty Art Box as well as adding the Kurau b...
Congratulations to John Chapman for scoring the Chobits empty art box from us this morning. We\'ve restocked our art box pile for the next two months with a number of more recent art boxes so there\'ll be something new each week through the end of August,...
What They SayThe only witnesses to a mob hit, Ryo and Robert were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Since then, they’ve been shot at, run off the road, and nearly blown to pieces-but now it’s getting personal. Based on the Hit Video Game! ...
Well, it managed to run pretty much a year on the nose but the Empty Art Box contest has come to a close. We\'ve just given away our latest empty art box, the Spiral one, to Stefanie Field, and have none left on hand. I\'m sure we\'ll get more and then we...
The art box contest continues this morning and we\'ve awarded our Peacemaker empty art box to Jay Horn! Congratulations! The contest for that is now kicked over again and up this week is the DNAngel empty art box, so get your entry submitted today!
Our weekly art box contest has come around again and the Sakura Wars TV art box has gone to Connor Corbett! As we say congratulations to him, we kick off this weeks contest with the Final Fantasy Unlimited art box as the prize!
Want to see some original concept art, which was drawn for last summer's Transformers? Well, if you do, you're in luck. Conceptual artist Tim Flattery has posted 15 shots ofart originally drawn for the first installment directed by Michael Bay. While som...
After her successful co-directorial debut on 'Superman Doomsday,' Lauren Montgomery takes full command of the helm for 'Wonder Woman,' the next entry in the popular series of DC Universe animated original PG-13 films. Warner Premiere, DC Comics and Warner...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Akita Yoshinobu/Sawada HajimeTranslated by:Brendan FrayneAdapted by:What They SayThe sorcerer Orphen is on a magic-for-hire mission, and along with his wand-wielding understudy and bone headed companion, he must retrieve a mag...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Miyazaki HayaoTranslated by:David Lewis, Toren Smith, Joe Yamazaki and Kaori InoueAdapted by:What They SayIn a long-ago war, humankind, in its hubris, set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies ha...
The Review!"Revolutionary Girl Utena" is Central Park Media's (primarily U.S. Manga Corps, though "Utena" is sold under their "Software Sculptors" label) first attempt to put a television series on DVD. This particular disc contains 7 episodes; the next o...
The first look at Amy Adams appearing as Amelia Earhart has popped up online for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, courtesy of TheBadandUgly. You can check many of the characters on the left and see the full gallery here. Adams will be co-st...
Manwha, the Korean terms for comics (a combination of the Japanese manga and Chinese manhua), always seems to get the short end of the stick, being regarded as cheap manga knockoffs. Many people have a hard time seeing the difference between manwha and ma...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kim SumgMoTranslated by:Michael HanAdapted by:What They SayChunhoo Kang lives in a world of crime, sex and intrigue. He\'s the Nihon Saikono Warrior, Japan\'s greatest fighter in the yakuza underworld. However, he\'s also Kore...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Tuna EmpireTranslated by:Ex-S WooAdapted by:What They SaySayuri is a hard-working OL, the unsung heroine of Japan's modern economy. With the help of her horny colleague Keiko and eager understudy Mayu-tan, the girls will lowe...
Dark Horse has been reprinting Marvel Comics’ color Conan comics for a few years but now they are adding the Conan stories from the black & white Savage Sword of Conan Magazine. This volume one Omnibus edition features 544 pages and include...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Steve Jablonsky reprises his dark ambiances from the 2003 remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with an equally brooding and disconsolate score for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman (DA...
Welcome back to the Book Buzz after a two week hiatus for “re-tooling”. So what’s the deal? Well, there will be a few changes in the content of the column to hopefully make it more appealing to book fans. Rather th...
Intro
I've been writing reviews for Anime on DVD.com since 1998. I've been a fan of anime for a bit longer than that. It's been interesting to see my style of review change over the years. With 2000 I realized that I had to do something a bit different in...
Ever wondered why those DC stories from the 60's were often so whacked and why they almost always depicted a scene shown on the cover? It's all down to editor Julius Schwartz and his practice of having his writers craft stories around the concept on the ...
Due to the very kind and generous donation from site reader Greg Taylor, we\'ve received an influx of empty art boxes from a number of anime series and have been able to kick off the Empty Art Box Contest once more, this time starting with the limited edi...
"Really, all we got from the [original] short story was the title and the idea of doing something set in art school," says Daniel Clowes of his new film 'Art School Confidential'. "The producer who produced 'Ghost World' had a terrible ordeal getting some...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSNewly released from England’s Silva Screen (issued in England on October 18th, in the USA on November 9th) is an expanded two-CD set of music from 1972’s BATTLE OF THE PLANETS, the Americanized version of the Japanese animated s...
Steve Buscemi will appear in an uncredited cameo in Terry Zwigoff's upcoming feature "Art School Confidential," set to star John Malkovich. In addition, Anjelica Huston is being sought for a leading role. Mr. Mudd, the production company run by Malkovich,...
Check out the new concept art from 'Hellboy II' on the film's official website. The new images include a shot of the one and only Big Baby gun! The new art is featured in the Gallery under "Check Out The Latest Concept Art" section.
Artists in Comics2Film's Digital
Concept Gallery will get their chance to shine in the April/May issue of Yahoo!
Internet Life. The magazine contacted us earlier this week to let us know that they are working on a story about Spider-Man fan art on the I...
What They SayLed by Bronze Knight Seiya, the Knights of Althena draw upon their amazing martial arts skills as well as their mystical powers, each keyed to a diferent sign of the Zodiac. They pit themselves against the most formidable fighters in the univ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Kenichi SonodaTranslated by:Dana Lewis & Toren SmithAdapted by:What They SayRally and Minnie-May are two teen girls running a weapons shop in Chicago…but they have a side business as bounty hunters! Though their main ta...
Good day to you all. I've been writing a lot lately about the community surrounding the anime and manga fandom. Maybe "hassling" is a more accurate verb. Either way, it occurred to me I'm shooting off at the mouth about how fans need to be mo...
Continued from Part 1, we carry on with our examination of MGM's box set of Charlie Chan films made by Monogram Pictures during World War II...With a trio of wartime Chan films released, Monogram had clearly shown their strengths and weaknesses. Fledgling...
When thinking of reality TV competition shows, usually the first images that come to mind are of back-stabbing, sniping contestants who will do anything to destroy their opponents and win the money. That is why the Sci-Fi channel's "Who Wants to Be a Su...
What They SayAmong the five star systems known as the Joker Systems, there are many kingdoms, each under the protection of valiant knights that control massive robots called Headliners. Bound to the knights are fatimas. Human in appearance and mind, the f...