03/03/2014 9:45am
When people first spoke of the manga influence on American comics, they were really speaking primarily of the Shirow Masamune influence.
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02/17/2014 12:18pm
"Saya...who did you swear covenant to? And Saya...what are you?"
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02/10/2014 9:19am
Just about everybody knows Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun. If you’ve ever been to a comics or anime show, you can barely go five minutes without running into a Vash the Stampede or tripping over a Wolfwood cross-gun.
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02/03/2014 10:17am
Kumoricon is our local Japanese fan event here in Portland, so we've got to give it a little extra attention when it comes to people cosplaying Dark Horse characters! Here's some bonus pictures...
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01/27/2014 4:37pm
Invasion from space is a pretty common science-fiction premise, really a genre in itself.
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01/20/2014 3:22pm
Many English-language readers are still surprised to hear that Blade of the Immortal has ended in Japan.
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01/13/2014 11:53am
Do you hang up manga pictures where you work? So do we! In fact, we have an entire hallway here at Dark Horse dedicated to them, running along that all-important route that connects the kitchen to the editorial conference room.
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11/25/2013 1:10pm
I admire Anime Expo; I more than just like it. It has great fan roots: its immediate ancestor, the one-shot AnimeCon ’91, was put together by a coalition including GAINAX (yes, that GAINAX—yes, they helped organize a con for American otaku), the late Toren Smith (whose Studio Proteus was responsible for many of the classic manga published through Dark Horse), and John McLaughlin of BayCon (with whom Toren had worked to create a legendary, film festival-like anime program at BayCon ’86).
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