Cutie Honey at SF Asian Film Fest

March 10, 2005 – 12:00 am

[ via Anime News Network ] The San Francisco Asian Film Festival’s showing the live action adaptation of the manga Cutie Honey this Saturday and Sunday. And the Festival got a subtitled print!
The story: girl dies, resurrected with nanotechnology but no memories, and avenges father against sundry villains. It’s camp, but fun. Oh, and there’s [...]

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Manga Wins, Fandom(s) invade Pop Culture

January 4, 2005 – 12:00 am

Two reports from the precincts of Fandom:

According to Bookscan figures, the top selling graphic novels (in units) of 2004 were Rurouni Kenshin and Fruits Basket, both manga in translation [ via Comics Reporter ].
Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers, a title listing for more than twice the cover price of the manga, was [...]

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A 2004 Best of the Year Post

December 31, 2004 – 12:00 am

Earth is really full of things. — The King of All Cosmos, in Katamari Damacy
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I didn’t play as much Katamari Damacy or World of Warcraft over the holiday break as I wanted. I was working on this end of the year post.
Here’s my stab at a ‘best of the web’ [...]

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Lev’s Tales of Mere Existence

December 12, 2004 – 12:00 am

We heard Lev read from his Comic/DVD Tales of Mere Existence last night at Writers with Drinks. Lev’s specialty is self-deprecation, but the best thing was the story of him decorating his hoopty 1987 Toyota as the “General Lee” from The Dukes of Hazard.
Comedy Central’s running some of his short movies this month, so if [...]

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People really win in real life.

July 27, 2004 – 12:00 am

It’s kudos week!
First, Lea received the Lulu of the Year award from Friends of Lulu for her work on the Girlamatic.com site.
Then Lawrence continues his streak with a dishonorable mention in San Jose State’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
As he felt the baseball bat connect firmly with the six-pointed Bar Mitzvah pinata, spilling its glorious load of [...]

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Republicans for Voldemort Redux

July 19, 2004 – 12:00 am

Found in the nighly emailed summary of the stories the UK’s Channel Four plans to cover:
From Florida, a new attempt by Governor Jeb Bush, brother of you-know-who, to exclude a great swathe of black voters from the electoral register in the State. He did it before and is trying to do it again, but this [...]

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All the Manga That’s Fit To Print

July 18, 2004 – 12:00 am

[ via iocaste] We live in an age of miracle and wonder. The newspaper of record reviews Megatokyo.
Aaron’s NYT link-maker isn’t digesting the Book Review URL so use Bug Me Not to get at it.

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The Ministry of Defense meets UN SPACEY

July 8, 2004 – 12:00 am

Unqualified Offerings reports Japan’s Defense Ministry will issue their annual white paper as a manga to increase readership.
It’s not the first time the Ministry has gone the pop culture route.
Manga on ’serious’ subjects are not new. In 1988, the veteran artist Ishinomori Shotaro wrote Japan, Inc. about the trade wars of the period. Back then, [...]

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Free Comic Book Day 2004: Ask for Diva Lea!

June 29, 2004 – 12:00 am

Saturday, July 3rd, is Free Comic Book Day, ask your local dealer for the NBM Sampler (scroll down) because my old high school gal-pal Lea Hernandez did one of the two covers, and it has ten pages from her gender-bending extravaganza Rumble Girls.
If you have a coupon or promo that lets you select more than [...]

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WisCon 28 Panels

May 11, 2004 – 12:00 am

I have my panel assignments for WisCon 28, this coming Memorial Day weekend in Madison.

Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.: Feminist Comic Books and Games
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 p.m.: Square Pegs - One Size Does Not Fit All!
Sunday, 10:00-11:15 p.m.: Was it Good for You? : Buffy, “Chosen,” and the End of an Era

This will be my 16th WisCon. In [...]

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Lea Hernandez Interview

April 22, 2004 – 12:00 am

My old buddy Lea Hernandez reports that she’s been interviewed for Suicide Girls. Her graphic novel Rumble Girls was great (and Tiptree material to boot.)
DRE: Manga and anime focuses a lot on switching genders. Why is that?
LH: If I was going to guess, based on what very little I know about Japan, I would say [...]

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Where’s my Honzo Sword?

April 17, 2004 – 12:00 am

Today’s PvP echoes how I felt after watching Kill Bill vol. 2.

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I’m Clicking On The Gun

April 8, 2004 – 12:00 am

An Ok/Cancel comic from last year provides a comment on John Grubner’s gripes about Linux usablity. The missing fourth panel should have ESR explaining that if everyone were armed, Open Source Software would be usable due to the threat of retribution by disgruntled users.

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Zombie afternoon.

March 23, 2004 – 12:00 am

Zombies chase Christ out of Box Office

Zombies v. Puny Humans

Zombies v. Humans who fight back

Zombies v. Humans, but you have an endless supply of tactical nukes

Online Retailing for Zombies

Zombies need friendship too.

Note: 2 - 4 require Java.

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The Cartoon Guide to Ruby

February 19, 2004 – 12:00 am

[ via Simon Willison ] Cartoon foxes explain the Ruby programming language.
Mac OS X ships with Ruby.
And there’s weblogging software written in it.

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