December 11, 2012 Johanna Warner Archive 2 comments

Warner Archive Releases Crosby Wonder Woman Pilot, Superboy Season 2

Warner Archive continues its trend of finding the most wonderful and amazing discoveries, movies and TV shows you didn’t know you wanted but once you hear about them sound terrific. Before the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman TV show took off, they tried a 1974 pilot starring Cathy Lee Crosby. It’s more similar to the white-suit, superspy version of Diana Prince than the star-spangled warrior we’re more familiar with. As it’s described, “with a sleek, seventies espionage superaction refit… Ricardo Montalban […]

December 10, 2012 Johanna Yen Press Manga Reviews One comment

Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something

Kaoru Mori is the fan-favorite author of the popular manga Emma and A Bride’s Story. As she explains in her comic-format foreword, Anything and Something is a “stewpot book… a bunch of manga short stories, illustrations, and columns” she’s done over the past ten years, since the launch of Emma. It’s good to see such a collection make it to the US, especially for those eager to buy whatever she has available, but I found the result a mixed bag. […]

December 10, 2012 Johanna Movie News Leave a comment

Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Movie Coming to US

Jacques Tardi’s graphic novel series The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec had a live-action movie adaptation that came out in France two years ago. The film was directed and produced by Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) and starred Louise Bourgoin. Set in 1913, reporter Adele sails to Egypt to handle mummies and deals with the outcome of the hatching of a pterodactyl egg from a museum in Paris. For those hoping we’d get a chance to see this movie, Shout! […]

December 9, 2012 Johanna Yen Press Manga Reviews One comment

Yotsuba&! Volume 11

If you’re not reading this charming series about a curious little girl discovering the world around her, I’m not sure what I could say now to convince you. (Unless it’s how jealous I am of you that you have over 10 books to enjoy.) It’s consistently good, enjoyable in its naive portrayal of the world, and encouraging in its optimism. In this volume by Kiyohiko Azuma, Yotsuba learns how to make noodles in a local shop. Her happy face and […]

December 9, 2012 Johanna Dark Horse Manga Reviews 4 comments

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Volume 13

It’s never a good sign when a creepy girl says, early on, “Loving someone or hating them… it’s the exact same thing.” I’d forgotten just how spooky this series can be, but the lead story here in The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volume 13 rams it home in spades. The story is by Eiji Otsuka and art by Housui Yamazaki. A vengeful young woman is taking control of men who prey on runaway young women new to Tokyo — by […]

December 8, 2012 Johanna Comic Book Films One comment

The Rabbi’s Cat Aims for Animated Oscar

The Rabbi’s Cat, an animated adaptation of Joann Sfar’s graphic novel about a talking feline and Jewish life in 1930s Algeria, is being pitched for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. It’s now screening in NY, opens next week in LA, and launches nationwide (with subtitles) in January. Sfar co-wrote and co-directed the film. Here’s the description: Algeria in the 1930s is an intersection of Jewish, Arab, and French culture. A cat belonging to a widowed rabbi eats the family parrot […]

Pretty in Ink: American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 cover

December 8, 2012 Johanna Books About Comics Leave a comment

Trina Robbins to Write Ultimate History of Women in Comics

Fantagraphics sent out its catalog for next year, and among all the wonderful books of classic reprints and alternative cartoonists, I discovered a new prose work I’m going to be very curious to see. Trina Robbins is writing Pretty in Ink: American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013, billed as “her ultimate book, a revised, updated and rewritten history of women cartoonists, with more color illustrations than ever before, and with some startling new discoveries”. Among which is finding out that someone Robbins […]

Strip by Stan Sakai about 47 Ronin and Usagi Yojimbo

December 4, 2012 Johanna Art Leave a comment

Usagi on Hiatus, Explained in a Comic

I love it when creators share news in comic format. Stan Sakai is taking a break from his Usagi Yojimbo series to draw 47 Ronin, written by Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson. In this comic strip, Usagi gets a little mad at his author for the delay. There are four pages in total, with an unexpectedly hilarious punchline about art styles.

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