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Everyone will be interested that DC Comics is reportedly received the comic rights to Jon Land’s Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending. This is in development by King Midas World Entertainment as a hopeful franchise. You can jump over to ICv2 for the brief article.
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund’s site has a report of a coalition the organization has joined. The coalition is working to have one of Utah’s proposed statues defeated. The statue is on censoring the Internet and was passed in 2005, but has not been enforced. It is currently in the courts – Florence v. Shurtleff, No. 05-CV-485 in the United States District Court, District of Utah. The law “seeks to regulate all Internet speech that some might consider ‘harmful to minors’, including works of visual art, photography, graphic novels, and information about sexual health and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth”. Jump of to the site for the full article.
WizKids is planning on releasing Star Trek Fleet Captains gaming set. However, instead of having characters from the shows on stands they will have starships from the shows. Your gamers might be interested in this and I bet your patrons that are into Star Trek will definitely be interested in this new product.
If your library purchases older animation you will want your purchasers to put this on their list. Warner Home Video is scheduled to release ThunderCats Season1, Part 1 on July 12. This will be before the new ThunderCats series will debut on Cartoon Network from Studio 4C.
ICv2 is reporting that 20th Century Fox has hired Brad Caleb Kane to write a script for a reboot of the Daredevil property. Will it come to pass? How knows, we’ll just have to wait and see.
High School of the Dead Volume 1, Daisuke Sato & Shouji Sato, 2011, Yen Press. ISBN: 978-0316132251, $13.99
Rat Catcher, Andy Diggle & Victor Ibanez, 2011, Vertigo (DC Comics). ISBN: 978-1401211585, $19.99.
Daytripper, Gabriel Ba & Fabio Moon, 2011, Vertigo (DC Comics). ISBN: 978-1401229696, $19.99.
This past Monday we made a post of the 5th episode of the ComicPop Library Podcast. For some reason it didn’t get through to the Facebook link. If you would like to listen to the podcast jump to our website and go to the podcast archives and it will be the most recent cast listed.
The Kyoto Seika University is now offering a Doctorate degree in Manga Studies. In 2000, the university began an undergraduate degree in Manga Studies and in 2010 it developed a masters degree in Manga Studies. This came about in response to the ” internationalization of manga culture, increased public support, and developments in digital media and global contents culture”. Graduates of this program can become researchers, professors or artists. It would be nice if we could have this type of degree in U.S. universities as well as an American Comic Book Studies degree or combination of both.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-06-07/kyoto-seika-university-offers-japan-1st-manga-ph.d
There is a new site, Bistro Animeshi at http://www.animeshi.net/recipe002.html, that just begun where the creators are posting recipes for different foods from anime shows. Pictured above is the Herring and Pumpkin Pie from Kiki’s Delivery Service. If you go there you will need to translate the recipes into English. The site currently only has a few recipes that includes Spaghetti and Meatballs from Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro. Visit their site and see what you think.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-06-06/japanese-site-offers-recipes-for-food-in-anime
For any libraries that are in the Calgary area mark your calendars. The Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo is being held June 17-19. The Joe Shuster Awards will be on June 18, from 6-8 p.m., at the Boyce Theatre. Jump over to the official Joe Shuster Awards site for more information.