We are just having fun reviewing and discussing comic books, graphic novels, manga, anime/animation, music and movies that we have recently read, listened to or watched.
ICv2 is reporting that the bankruptcy of Borders is negatively effecting TokyoPop. TokyoPop stated that Borders owed the company and has placed them in the difficult position of having to layoff employees to help balance the losses that they have because of Borders actions. Use the link below to read the full article.
Libraries that have a lot of interest in Role Playing Games might want to pass this along to their patrons. Free RPG Day is on June 18, 2011. This is a less known event than Free Comic Book Day, but your patrons might visit their local comic book stores to see if they are participating in this event. If their store doesn’t participate they might want to encourage the store to participate in future Free RPG Days. The link below is to the main website for Free RPG Day.
Here is another contest that librarians need to let their anime and manga patrons know about. TokyoPop is having a contest on their Facebook page. They are trying to get to 100,000 fans on their page. Guidelines for the contest is also on their webpage. Let your patrons know so they can check out the company’s Facebook page and possibly win some swag.
Here are some Anime Conventions that librarians might pass along to their patrons that live close to the area. A Con is an experience unto itself so if you have any patrons that have not been to one let them know about these three up-coming Cons: Anime Matsuri, March 18-20, in Houston, Texas; Zenkaikon March 18-20, in Philadelphia, PA; and Mega Con, March 25-27 in Orlando, Florida. Links to each Cons homepage are below so be sure to share them with your patrons.
For all the librarians that have Star Wars fans, which I’m know there are, make sure they know about Chewbacca’s coming to the Clone Wars. Star Wars website starwars.com has provided a clip that shows how this came to be, make the jump below to see the video short.
Attention all librarians in the San Jose, California area the FanimeCon is coming to you during May 27-30. Anime News Network, linked below, reports that Yuya Matsushita will be performing during the MusicFest at FanimeCon. Let all of your JPop fans know about this if they don’t already.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-03/california-fanimecon-to-host-singer-yuya-matsushita
Librarians don’t forget to get in touch with your local comic book shops for Free Comic Book Day. If you have a store that can help out by giving you a limited number of free books that would be great. However, the stores actually have to purchase these titles. If you are wanting a large amount of titles get with the stores to order the amounts of each title you wish to have available in your library to help promote this event and medium. This is a fairly inexpensive event that can be done within the library just give your local stores plenty of time to get the titles you want ordered, don’t wait until the last minute. Your stores can give you a listing of titles or you can go to the events main website to get a listing.
ICv2’s site is reporting that Elizabeth Hurley has been tapped to play Wonder Woman’s main villain for the TV pilot. The site’s theory, linked below, is that Hurley will portray Veronica Cale a Pharmaceutical company’s founder in the comic book.
DC Comics’ site and ICv2 reports that Diane Lane has been cast to play Martha Kent in the new Superman movie that is in production and scheduled for release December 2012. Links are provided below to the stories.
For librarians looking at new titles, these from Viz Media might catch your eye. Here are the titles that Anime News Network’s site, linked below, is reporting being licensed: Pokemon: Black & White; Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s; Tesoro; Dawn of the Arcana; Meet Mameshiba; and Clamp’s X.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-03/viz-acquires-dawn-of-the-arcana-pokemon-b&w-manga