Pat Shand: The first comic I ever read was Creepshow, by Stephen King and Bernie Wrightson. I was given a shoebox full of ...

The AMAs have cemented themselves as a fixture in the American Manga industry  as an evening to celebrate the artistry, ...

"Since I cannot program or draw, I would write the stories for the games and create the game based off of that story. I would ...

"For me, I feel like a lot of storytelling is about perspective, and in the case of manga, what the mangaka has to say about ...

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“Oh no! We’ve…we’ve just received word that this is the last issue of Newtype USA magazine. Good heavens!”, reads a small line of text tucked quietly to the bottom of the final page of Newtype USA’s ...

It’s hard to quantify just how influential Neon Genesis Evangelion really is. References to the series pop up in everything from Sgt. Frog to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But Evangelion’s influence ...

The comic strip was once a stronghold of American culture. Starting in the late 1800s, newspapers published dozens of oversized, colored comic strips in order to gain readership and many newspapers, ...

It’s late summer in New York City, and that means two things for local otaku: Anime NYC and the American Manga Awards. Last year, anime journalists Sean Gaffney and Erica Friedman had the incredible ...

The world of the early-to-mid 2000s may as well have been completely different from the one we inhabit today. It was a time when Walkman tape players gave way to portable CD players, and the phrase ...

The term Doujinshi is an established part of avid manga readers’ lexicons. The term often pops up in translator’s notes, as part of countless series’ origin stories, as part of a short story ...

How does an anime about two girls who drift apart over a man garner such a loyal sapphic fanbase? As a lesbian who loves shoujo anime, I’m very familiar with the iconic sapphic romances in Puella Magi ...