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I hinted at it in some of my brief New York posts, but I thought I’d maybe blog a little more thoroughly about my conversation with Marc Weidenbaum, the fella at Viz in charge of Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat, about his…

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A Roundup of Epic Proportions

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Heavens to betsy, lookit all that news!

TV Anime:
- ANN has confirmed that Bandai Visual (that’s the Japanese one) is going to be releasing some of its titles globally on Blu-Ray, i.e. with subtitles in English and…

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Apr. 28, 2008: It takes a lot of love to keep it going

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“Oni takes ownership and control of numerous rights connected to a property that those other guys don’t. Comment-guy might just be a snob or just retarded, but he might actually have accidentally made a point: When…

Viz’s original manga, Previews peeks, new manga cafe in SF

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Christopher Butcher gets the scoop of the day, as he follows up with Viz’s Marc Weidenbaum on his strategy for publishing original manga.
At MangaCast, Ed Chavez finds the new manga in the latest Diamond Previews.…

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