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Attention all Anime lovers, librarians as well as your patrons, Anime News Network reports that the SyFy channel will be moving its Anime block to Thursday nights. This will begin on March 24. The article, linked below, also states that the block currently shows it will begin at 11:30 p.m. instead of 11:00 p.m.
Librarians in the Seattle area take note. This is a cool chance to see the creative team of B.P.R.D., from the pages of Hellboy, at the Emerald City ComicCon. The Con is being held March 4-6, so let your patrons that love them some B.P.R.D. know about this as soon as possible. If any of your patrons are going you can also ask them to bring you some swag back to you can put up in your library for a display. Dark Horse reports that the team will host a panel on Saturday and their will be a limited supply of a B.P.R.D. Con Exclusive. The Link over to get the full article.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/277/bprd-hell-earth-creative-team-emerald-city-comicon
Librarians pass this along to your Camilla d’Errico fans. Dark Horse Comics and Suicide Girls are sponsoring a contest where winners can win some d’Errico swag. Links to Dark Horse’s page to enter the contest are below and to Suicide Grils where they have an interview with d’Errico.
http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/276/camilla-derrico-contest
http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Camilla+d%e2%80%99Errico:+Femina+and+Fauna/
Here is a graphic novel report by ICv2’s site that might get some cross promotion within your library. U.K. publisher AAM/Markosia is releasing Kate & William: A Very Public Love Story in April. This could bring in your non-fiction readers, specifically those that have an interest in the United Kingdom and the Royal Family. Check out the full article on the link below.
ICv2’s site is reporting that D.J. Caruso has been signed to direct a Preacher movie. The director is fine, my concern is Hollywood trying to make this into a movie. Unless this becomes a franchise I would think this would be better served as a HBO series or the like. AMC’s Walking Dead comes to mind as how this can be produced. Link below to the brief article.
IDW’s site is reporting that it’s title Zombies vs. Robots has been optioned by Sony Pictures. The article also has ISBN and pricing information if some libraries are interested in picking the titles up for their collection. Link to the article to read the full article.
The staff at ComicPop Library would like to send our condolences to the McDuffie family. Dwayne was well known for his breadth of work in the graphic novel industry, whether it be comic books, television and silver screen. He will be missed by all.
This is for your library’s Yu-Gi-Oh fans. Anime News Network has a small article (linked below) about the new Yu-Gi-Oh series entitled Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal anime series and it states the manga is already in production in Japan. This will be one title to look for in the next year if not sooner for library collections.
Librarians can show some interest in the comic book medium with their graphic novel readers. Ask your patrons if they were lucky enough to get the cover variant of Fantastic Four #587 that sports the autograph of the writer of the issue, Jonathan Hickman. Follow the link to Marvel’s site for the full article.
http://marvel.com/news/story/15077/fantastic_four_variant_surprise
Librarians keep your ears to the ground about a possible Star Blazers live-action movie from Skydance Productions which, helped with the production of True Grit. They are currently in talks to obtain the rights at this time. Anime News Network’s site (link below) also mentions that there was a live-action Japanese movie of Star Blazers released this past December. So you might check out some of your international film distributors to see if they have this title.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-21/true-grit-producer-in-live-action-star-blazers-talks