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One of my favorite manga artists, Taiyou Matsumoto, creator of Number 5 and Ping Pong (also a fun movie!) was introduced to me 13 years ago through his comic Tekkon Kinkurîto (English title: Black and White, serialized in PULP Manga in North America).

Because Matsumoto trained in Europe, Tekkon Kinkurîto is perhaps influenced toward euro-comic style, and is even more confusing philosophically challenging than other Japanese manga. In any case, I am stoked to find the series will have a full length animated movie.

Comics Preservation by Jonathan Barli is an archive of classic comics, protecting them from being lost to the ravages of time. (the other michael)

Check out these desktop wallpapers for Clive Barker’s Great and Secret Show, Transformers, and Brian Wood’s Supermarket.

ACT-I-VATE, an online comics cabal is producing tons of interesting and unusual, very Comics Code Authority-unfriendly
 works. In particular, I am enjoying Panorama, to which I link to the current-latest-page, which contains links to the start of the story, so read them in order!

Last, and certainly not least, Matt Fraction is giving away a 22-page preview of his upcoming project Five Fists of Science, a slightly-alternative history that features larger-than-life characters from, er, real life.
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  1. bwana4/05/2006 10:12 AM

    Hi, you big Type O-for-outrageous monster, you.

    It can't hurt -- Well, it can't hurt unless it flops utterly in Japan, or fails to be picked up in Nor. Am., or gets picked up and then fails to move...

    It is impossible to fathom how, with SO much translated manga out there in the Borders/Barnes and Nobles of the world, that Ping Pong has not yet been translated. That's just sad.

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