Anime Diet

Editor’s note: Here are Mike Crichlow’s video journals for all four days of Comic-Con, in one Youtube playlist! If you like booth babes and artists, you’ve come to the right place. (See part 1 of this series for the writeup.) Mike is available for commissions and other work. You can contact him at his email [...]

We talked to Deb Aoki, the influential Guide of manga.about.com, after her panel about “The Best and Worst Manga of 2010″ at this year’s Comic Con. It’s a short interview, where we ask just a few basic questions. Pardon the noise in the video–it was shot with an iPhone and and things were just a [...]

I’ve heard about the wonders of Comic-Con for a while now. Honestly, it sounded too good to be true. Like-minded people everywhere, scantily-clad hot chicks eager to take photos with you, stars of film/television just casually walking around and more new/exclusive material that you could shake a stick at. It sounds more like Shangri-La than an actual place on Earth. So, how was my first Comic-Con experience as an anime and comic book fan?

These are just the best of the photos we took this year at San Diego Comic Con! Includes some exclusive pics of the Marvel/Madhouse collaboration and some character designs for the upcoming Iron Man anime, as well as some excellent pictures of Yoshitaka Amano. Not to mention celebrity pics of Eva Mendes, Will Ferrell, Seth [...]

The San Diego Comic Con has been around for years, but nothing draws in the media like scandal. So it is unsurprising that the media flocked to rumors on Twitter of a stabbing, complete with (entirely fabricated) gory details like blood-drenched shirts and gaping wounds. The reality of it was more schoolyard fight than slasher, [...]

2:02 PM—Talking about Priest. Saw the Hall H movie preview for this yesterday. I find it interesting that a manhwa is the first potential breakout for TP. The same artist, Min-Woo Hyung, is doing another one called Ghost Face which TP is also publishing. 2:04 PM—Skelanimals. “Adorable and creepy”: not much of the latter if [...]

8:04 PM – we are in front row. I’m going to have great pictures up on this article soon. Panel has not yet started. 8:07 PM – today’s presenters (according to the signs up front): Kristin Adams and John Rieber from G4. Jeph Loeb from Marvel. Masao Maruyama from Madhouse. 8;16 PM – Jeff Loeb, [...]

New License Announcements 1:08 PM – Highschool of the Dead manga licensed. 1:08 PM – Higurashi manga (sidestory). 1:10 PM – Betrayal Knows My Name. It seems they are focusing on licensing shows that are either very recent or currently on anime… 1;11 PM – Aron’s Absurd Armada. Full color 4-koma manhwa. Are they into [...]

See our last panel report from AX and the licensing bonanza. 6:01 PM – Funi and the anime industry: it’s not as bad as it looks. The bad economy is a big factor. After all, AX was huge…recall the “DON’T PANIC” theme from 2008. They are committed to continunig dubs. 6:04 PM – 51% of [...]

Why? Because we like Deb Aoki and we like manga. :) This is, btw, happening at Comic Con 2010. Funimation panel is next! 4:31 PM – they’re starting now. They’re ribbing Carlo Santos now. 4:33 PM – introductions. Jason Thompson is speaking. 4:37 PM – the actual moderator appears, Tom Spurgeon, of ComicsReporter.com. 4:38 – [...]