Calling all mahou shoujo fans! CLAMP has an important announcement for all of us: Cardcaptor Sakura will be getting a sequel! Last March, Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine announced that CLAMP will be working on a "new project" for the Cardcaptor Sakura franchise in celebration of the manga's 20th anniversary this year. Just recently, Nakayoshi announced that the series…
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Attention, otaku of all ages! Rumiko Takahashi has just been nominated for the Will Eisner Hall of Fame for 2016. The San Diego Comic Convention's official website has a full list of the nominees, with the following description for Takahashi-sensei: Popular manga creator Rumiko Takahashi is said to be the bestselling female comics artist in history, with…
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If you're a fan of comics, then you'd know who Thor and Superman are. How many times have you ever imagined a scenario where your favorite superheroes from Marvel and DC duked it out against each other? Well that's pointless since everyone knows Superman would beat Thor, but really that's not the point. This isn't that.…
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As reported by London-based comic book journalist Paul Gravett on his website: The news came through to me in a short email yesterday, March 7th 2015: “Sensei passed away today.” Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the ‘sensei’ or grand master of ‘gekiga’, a term he coined for the darker, more dramatic form of manga in Japan. His…
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