SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show
Australia has one niche geeky convention that refuses to be like the others… And we love it! Welcome to SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show 2017!
Continue ReadingAustralia has one niche geeky convention that refuses to be like the others… And we love it! Welcome to SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show 2017!
Continue Reading‘Onkei’ is an all-ages manga worth reading.
Continue ReadingCheck out this classic manga: only available online, on a web page that translated it for free.
Continue ReadingHave questions and concerns about a live-action adaptation of ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’? So do we. Let’s explore them.
Continue Reading‘Library Wars,’ ‘Rebel of the Sands,’ and ‘Fate of Flames’ are three YA books with kick-ass heroines everyone will enjoy.
Continue ReadingOur free time is suddenly much more precious, so tablets are a great way of bringing our comics, graphic novels and manga everywhere you go. What’s the best hardware and software to use? GeekDad has your guide.
Continue ReadingThe Manga Guides have a fun solution to learning what can be a tough topic to understand.
Continue Reading‘Dragon Hazard’ is a beautiful looking cooperative board game that is being converted from the Japanese original. It’s asking for funding on Kickstarter right now.
Continue ReadingMy teenage daughter, a seasoned voice actor, and hundreds of Manga nuts show me why this genre is so incredibly popular.
Continue ReadingImage Comics has two new all-ages series that you should own for your kids.
Continue ReadingNew Kickstarter campaign by Digital Manga for an English-language edition of Osamu Tezuka’s Alabaster.
Continue ReadingThis week the news broke that Scarlett Johansson has been cast to play Major Motoko Kusanagi in the yet-to-be-greenlit live action film of Ghost in the Shell, and to say there were mixed reactions would be an understatement.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Mel interviews Sailor Moon enthusiast Charlene Ingram, Senior Manager of Animation Marketing at VIZ Media.
Continue ReadingWe have an exclusive preview of the next chapter of Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga releasing Today (9/6/2014). This is the first time Jiro’s stories have been fully translated and unabridged.
Continue ReadingDakster explores the world of learning calculus and statistics with manga!
Continue ReadingSurvive Inside the Human Body is a 3-part series of books that teaches the ins and outs of the human body in a fun manga style format.
Continue ReadingHere’s a Valentine to the men I’d never date in real life.
Continue ReadingI’ll give Seok-Young Song and illustrator Hyun-Dong Han credit for choosing the first book in the Survive Inside The Human Body manga trilogy to be the one that covers the digestive system. What kid (of suitable age) isn’t going to enjoy a book that tackles so many of what are typically considered the “gross” subjects — stomach acid, intestines, flatulence, eructation (look it up), and yes… poop. Nothing is left to the imagination — you’ve got excellent coverage of sphincters, hook worms, and feces… everything a kid (or adult) would want to know about the digestive system.
Continue ReadingHow many Ikea cabinets must we build and stock with our geeky materials before we long for something more custom, more proportioned for the things we love?
Continue ReadingWe’ve got everything from Marvel to DC, from X-Files to Monsters and manga this week on Comic Book Corner!
Continue ReadingRecently, I was given a chance to check out some awesome software by Smith Micro. I was a little worried that they wouldn’t be user friendly and I would be lost after the install. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case and I’m happy to say we have a complete set of software for one lucky reader.
Continue ReadingHave you ever read a textbook cover to cover? I’m in grad school. I’ve had to do it more than once. It usually requires massive amounts of caffeine and re-reading a lot of pages. Well, there’s some good news. No Starch Press has The Manga Guide series on textbook topics, such as statistics, electricity, and molecular biology. The manga books are written by Japanese subject matter experts. They have been translated to English and (thankfully) rearranged to read from left to right.
Continue ReadingNow through January 8, 2012, all the Viz manga titles available on Vizmanga.com and the free Viz Manga app for the iPad and iPod will be discounted up to twenty percent. The regular prices range from $4.99 to $9.99. Included …
Continue ReadingMy sixteen-year-old daughter was keen to attend a manga-drawing workshop at SDCC. We arrived at the appointed room nearly an hour early, having been unable to get into the Jim Henson panel I had hoped to see. Our disappointment quickly …
Continue ReadingThis week, I’m turning over the column to my eldest son, age fifteen, because he wanted to talk about Bleach, one of his favorite manga series. Specifically, he wanted to recommend the Bleach Value Pack, Volumes 1-3. I’ll turn the …
Continue ReadingFor my kids, Shonen Jump was the gateway to manga. They had watched a boatload of anime on television. So when a subscription to Shonen Jump was available through the Scholastic Book Club, my eldest son talked me into it. He soon …
Continue ReadingViz Media, publishers of some of the most popular manga series, launched its free iPad app in December to provide manga titles available for electronic reading. Since then, they’ve slowly been adding not only titles but more volumes of the …
Continue ReadingMark Crilley has been a storyteller most of his life. His work includes the Eisner Award-nominated Akiko books, the acclaimed four-part Miki Falls series and his latest tale, Brody’s Ghost, a six-volume Dark Horse Books project which debuted last summer. …
Continue ReadingMy eldest son handed me Kurozakuro from a stack of review copies I received from Viz last month. He said it was like a reverse Spider-Man and, after reading it, I think he’s right. Summary: All kind and gentle Mikito …
Continue ReadingMix a pinch of The Sixth Sense with a dash of The Karate Kid and a bit of The Crow, and you’ll start to get feel for Mark Crilley’s new Dark Horse Books graphic novel, Brody’s Ghost. Crilley — known for …
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