It Gets Better Than This?
In general, not bloody likely
"...Bechdel's attempt to render herself, in one panel, all manga-style. Funny, we say, because, although the woman can draw..."
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Sept. 30, 2011 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
Pop Culture Pop Quiz
Can you speak geek? Define these Ready Player One references.
"...Americanized name of the massive superrobot originally from Japanese manga..."
Aug. 19, 2011 Books Feature
Pages And Pages of Free Comics
Flicking through this year's Free Comic Book Day comics
"...Witch & Wizard (Yen Press): A manga-style adaptation of James Patterson may not appeal to a..."
May 5, 2011 Books Post by Richard Whittaker
Anonymity: Never Gonna Give You Up
Is 4chan Internet freedom's best hope?
"...real time, as it is a place for pale-skinned, manga-obsessed teenagers to wax enthusiastic about their next cosplay outing...."
March 4, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Venturing into Anime
Ikkicon returns for fifth New Year with Adult Swim star
"...Last New Year's weekend, Ikkicon IV attracted 4,200 anime, manga and cosplay fans over its three days. This year,..."
Dec. 31, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Arrested Development?
Young-at-heart Austin is home to a booming Young Adult literature scene
"...exemplar, to gothic historical romance (Jane Eagland's Wildthorn); meanwhile, manga, imported from Japan, has exploded on the heels of..."
Dec. 24, 2010 Books Feature by Melanie Haupt
Gay Place Goes to Comic Con Austin
What? Gays who like comics, card games, and roleplay? Shut yo' mouth!
"...In fact, within the comic culture, the Japanese manga tradition really helped to lay a lot of groundwork..."
Nov. 18, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Nakia
Dark Forces Gathering
ArmadilloCon 32
"...Austin-based comics writer Paul Benjamin, the plotter behind Tokyopop's manga Pantheon High, and San Antonio homicide cop/Bram Stoker Award-nominated..."
Aug. 27, 2010 Books Feature by Richard Whittaker
Great Scott!
Edgar Wright and his Scott Pilgrim cast touch down in Austin
"...with this film you've raised the bar on the comic-book-/manga-/graphic-novel-based film in a similar way to what James Cameron..."
Aug. 20, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Geek Shall Inherit the Fests
Austin becomes ground zero for the new cool
"...Austin's homegrown and fan-run anime and manga convention proved itself last year to be the New..."
July 4, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Vengeance Trilogy
Park Chan-wook's masterful trilogy explores the true cost of revenge on the person who willfully engages in it
"...to go predictably apeshit. Oldboy is based on a manga and feels like it, episodic and epic in equal..."
April 2, 2010 Screens Review by Marc Savlov
SXSW Film
Daily reviews and interviews
"...In Kim's film adaptation of Koji Matsumoto's manga of the same title, Akira's (Ishiguro) older brother, Atsushi..."
March 19, 2010 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno
Wizard World in the ATX
Austin gets on the comics convention circuit
"...shows for fans of all things sci-fi, fantasy, Anime, manga, space operafied, horrific and genre friendly (plus there's normally..."
Jan. 6, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Austin Film Festival: 'Happy Ending'
AFF Film Review
"...kawaii -- cute -- as one of Takashi Murakami's manga-derived sculptures, and like Murakami's fire engine-apple red, metal-flake paint..."
Oct. 25, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
Fantastic Fest: 'Fish Story'
J-horror director Nakimura goes punk
"...society into a cat's cradle of suspense, oddball humor, manga tropes, and one of the most satisfyingly post-punk finales..."
Oct. 1, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
"Jane! Stop This Crazy Thing!" (The Downside to Galaxy Highland Theater's New Robotic Seats)
Five Films We Don't Want to See in D-Box
"...Wong's 1993 live-action adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo's tough guy manga is so maniacally, gleefully dumb that it's virtually impossible..."
May 18, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov
New in Graphic Novels
The Chronicle Comics & Manga Team hunts down some inky delights
"...here first. Don't suspect that your Chronicle Comics & Manga Team is on anything other than the cutting edge..."
May 7, 2009 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
IF+D
IF+D is a good gallery with a deep vision of the role of art and laughter in your home
"...and shelves, as well as knit snail plushies, plastic manga figures, and pillows embroidered with pickup trucks. With all..."
Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Review by Rachel Koper
Savlov's Criticism Multifaceted
"...founding member of Sequential Tart, a web-comic writer, a manga adaptor/editor, and a comic-book writer, I want to thank..."
July 26, 2008 Postmarks
Sterling Allen: The Allen transformer as self-generator ...
Sterling Allen's irrational, exuberant drawings in the exhibit 'Writesy Drawsy' are so decisive in placement and texture that they immediately send you to a happy place as a viewer
"...process, he takes a dense scribble monster into a manga creature contour. Then he deconstructs the shape and, with..."
June 29, 2007 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom
Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level
"...everything from Akira to Iron Chef and from pulpy manga mags to the even pulpier hypervibe of Quentin Tarantino's..."
June 8, 2007 Music Feature by Marc Savlov
Best Books of 2006
"...Deathnote by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata; it's a manga reminiscent of Anthony Shaffer's battle-of-wits classic, Sleuth, but with..."
Jan. 5, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner
Japón and Battle in Heaven
The former, an arthouse darling, was lauded at Cannes and numerous international festivals; the latter received scant attention during its meager release
"...The Neighbor No. 13 (Tokyo Shock, $19.95): This manga adaption of – what else? – a bullied youngster's..."
May 19, 2006 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar
Otaku* Overload!!!
After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)
"...was weaned on a steady diet of animé and manga (the films' printed, comic-booky counterpart). Indeed, the 26-year-old –..."
Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
For the Imperial Flower Combat Trooper on Your List: Austin-Accented Animé on DVD
"...Final Fantasy: Unlimited: You've played the game, read the manga, seen the movie, and wondered what all the fuss..."
Dec. 2, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Austin Asian Film Festival 2
Nov. 3-6
"...or other genre smash-and-screamfests targeted to youth audiences or manga-mad salarymen run inexplicably amok. Even on the shelves of..."
Oct. 28, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
The Defiant Deviant
The Austin Film Society and Alamo Drafthouse gang up for Bloodbath and Beyond: The Extreme Cinema of Takashi Miike and more
"...Ichi the Killer (April 5). Based on a Japanese manga, Ichi is a jumble of stimulus-responses with razor blades..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
TV Eye
Sometimes real life is much scarier than scary movies.
"...Spiral (Uzumaki). Based on a popular comic book (or manga), Spiral tells the bizarre story of a quaint little..."
Oct. 25, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta
Big in Austin, Big in Japan
If a holiday gift trend is big here this year, chances are, it was already big over there
"...so popular. Anime, the animated form of Japan's popular Manga comic strip art form, is often mistaken as a..."
Dec. 7, 2001 Features Feature by Kate X Messer
Autumn Tale
What Movies Look Like This Fall
"...coexist, and not altogether comfortably. Based on the Forties manga (Japanese comic book) by Tezuka Osamu. (Nov. 9)... If..."
