Comics DC

Webcomics cartoonist Ru Xu has a News Prints new graphic novel out from Scholastic's Graphix imprint.  She was at Fantom Comics on Dupo...

by Mike Rhode Emily R. Gillis was a Smudge exhibitor, selling a collection of her webcomic Jikosha. She's a founder of the local coopera...

by Mike Rhode Kata Kane has returned to her Altar Girl webcomic , after a decade away from it. She's moved in the meantime from subur...

I spent a few hours at AnimeUSA today and had a good time looking around at the art show, the dealers and the cosplayers. It runs for two m...

 AnimeUSA  runs this weekend of November 9th-11th at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC.  This is always a nice, fun con, with a lo...

Deanna Echanique, who cartoons as Dechanique, embarrassingly enough came to my attention through this Canadian interview done for the Toront...

One of the nice things about going overseas is seeing how much more other countries respect comics than we do in the United States. Though i...

Manga Browser Andrew King PC World Tuesday, August 17, 2010; 12:19 AM

Baltimore's Otakon Draws 28,000 Anime, Manga Fans By Erin Finnegan Aug 03, 2010

Their website has all the information. Including a pretty complex schedule. And here's how they describe it: About Otakon Otakon is the...

I just finished reading Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West by T. R. Reid (Random House,...

See "Writing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the 21st Century: A New Generation of Historical Manga," by Michele Mason, Asia Pacific Jo...

For the forthcoming set of programs, the Onion talked to Schodt the premier Anglo-speaking manga expert on Tezuka, the 'Walt Disney'...

Otakon ‘09: Good Attendance and Sales; Some Complaints by Ada Price and Erin Finnegan -- Publishers Weekly, 7/21/2009

Anything goes at Otakon Fans of Japanese animation converge on Baltimore By Julie Bykowicz Baltimore Sun July 20, 2009

The big anime/manga/Japanese culture fest starts at the Baltimore Convention Center on July 17th. Here's a profile and details - "D...

This tip is from Herschel Kanter, from the Fairfax Bibliophiles list: 10 March, 7:30 PM in the City of Fairfax Regional Library Norah Curry ...

For some reason, people volunteer to work in a maid cafe - "For Anime Fans: Maids For a Day," By Dan Zak, Washington Post Staff W...

This has nothing at all to do with Washington and comics, but you can download a free manga book made by the US Navy to justify the visit of...

See "A Comic Office: 'The Adventures of Johnny Bunko'" by Express contributor Rachel Kaufman, Express June 11 2008 for an...