Thanks to ICv2 for providing this awesome look at the Conan movie poster.
Red Skull Shown
ICv2’s site gives us the image above, from Enterainment Weekly, of a close up view of the Red Skull. The site also has a short article that you can read after the link.
Crazy for Dogs on Hiatus
Any libraries out there that have been picking up Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs will want to take notice. Anime News Network is reporting that Viz Media is placing this title on hiatus. Use the link below for the short article.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-03/viz-confirms-inubaka/crazy-for-dogs-manga-hiatus
Carnegie Hall to Show Miyazaki Shorts
Attention librarians in the New York area. Inform your patrons about Carnegie Hall showing two Hayao Miyazaki shorts this month. On March 26, Carnegie Hall will have two showings of Hayao Miyazaki’s Yado-Sagashi (House Hunting) and Mizugumo Mon Mon (Mon Mon the Water Spider). The first showing is at 6:30 p.m. and the second showing of the two shorts will be at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 per person. Follow the link to Anime News Network for the short article.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-03-02/new-york-carnegie-hall-to-show-2-miyazaki-shorts
Blankets follow-up Habibi
ICv2 reports that Craig Thompson’s follow-up to Blankets will be entitled Habibi. They give the release date for September 20th, 2011. So all libraries that picked up his Blankets will want to keep an eye out for Thompson’s latest entry in the graphic novel medium Habibi. You can make a jump below to the full article.
Pokemon Still Going Strong
ICv2 is reporting more 15th Anniversary news, see link below for full article. The 14th and 15th feature films will debut in Japan during the month of July. The titles of the two films are Pokemon: Vintini and the Black Hero: Zekrom and Pokemon: Vintini and the White Hero: Reshiram. These films feature the Legendary Pokemon listed in the titles, which tie into the release of the Pokemon TCG: Black and White set that was mentioned in an earlier post, see second link. When these two films make it to the U.S. to purchase these will be two films librarians will want to purchase to add to their anime collection for all of their Pokemon fans.
G.I. Joe Sequel News
ICv2 has an article, see link below, that the G.I. Joe sequel has signed a director Jon Chu of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. Also two of the cast members might not be back. I liked the Joe movie just for its pure fun. I’m hoping the next one will be fun as well, but with news like this it could be iffy.
Publishers Weekly and CBDLF
Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly has written an article about the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. It discusses the fund raising that the organization is doing and how comic books are being challenged in libraries or personally owned. Jump to the article with the link below.
CBLDF Liberty Trading Cards
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s website has articles about them and Cryptozoic Entertainment joining together to make a trading card set to help raise funds for the organization. Librarians should know that if you have comic book/graphic novel fans more than likely they like trading cards as well. The card set is supposed to be comprised of 70 base cards and will have additional chase subsets. There was no report as of yet how much these cards will be, but they should have a release date of July 2011. The first link is to the full article about the card set and the second link is two images of some of the chase cards that artists have done for the set. This could be a way for your patrons to give back to the medium that they love.
http://cbldf.org/homepage/cryptozoic-entertainment-partners-with-cbldf-for-liberty-trading-cards/
http://cbldf.org/homepage/first-look-at-liberty-sketch-cards/
Devil May Cry Licensed
Anime News Network reports that Screen Gems, a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, has licensed the rights to make a Devil May Cry feature film. This will be exciting news to your library’s gaming, anime, manga, horror patrons. Devil May Cry began as a gaming property, but it has spawned an anime series, manga series and light novel series. Will it ever get made? It has as good of a change as anything else, only time will tell. Follow the link to the atricle.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-02-28/screen-gems-gets-devil-may-cry-games-film-rights