Jordan Peele in the Running to Direct Live-Action 'Akira'
Life was good for Jordan Peele — star of a massively successful sketch comedy show, a nice little recurring role on FX's Fargo, and he's married to Chelsea Peretti, one of the coolest, funniest women currently working. Then he sprung his directorial debut Get Out on an unsuspect…
Charles Bramesco
Introducing Manga to the West: Celebrating the Debut of Akira
On this day in 1982, the first issue of Akira was published. Written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo, this post-apocalyptic tale was crucial in the popularization of manga outside of Japan.
Screen & Page: Grappling With The Legacy of 'Akira'
With Screen & Page we typically explore the relationship between anime shows or films and the manga series inspired by them, but today we're making an exception for a manga and anime produced in overlapping schedules by the same author, where the anime is more famous in the West, but both w…
Tom Speelman
Christopher Nolan Reportedly Producing an 'Akira' Trilogy
A live action remake of the beloved 1988 anime Akira, based on Katsuhiro Otomo's hugely popular manga of the same name, has been floating around Hollywood for over a decade, attracting and dropping actors and directors at a shocking rate (at one point, Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart were s…
'Akira' Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Wins Angoulême Grand Prix
Hosted every year in France, the Angoulême International Comics Festival is the biggest comic con in the world, surpassing even San Diego's mighty Comic-Con International by tens of thousands of attendees. But like the San Diego show and its Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, Angoulê…
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 10.17.14
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, as well as the special qualities of comic book storytelling, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great pinups, fan art and other illustrations on si…
AKIRA Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Designs Gigantic Ceramic Mural
As one of many thousands of people who keep a vigilant eye out for anything Katushiro Otomo -- author of the seminal Akira, Domu, Memories, and more -- does, it's always interesting to see what projects he does choose to become involved in. I loved the collaborative illustration catalogues he d…
Zainab Akhtar
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 10.02.14
Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive d…
Matt D. Wilson