Osaka-based co-author Brian Ashcraft is the editor of Kotaku, one of the biggest gaming blogs on the net (one of the top 20 most popular blogs in the world, according to the website Technorati.
Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers. Home of Sega, Nintendo, and Sony, Japan has a unique and powerful presence in the world of video games. Another thing that makes Japan unique in the gaming world is the prevalence of game arcades. While the game arcade scene has died in the U.S., there are 9,500 "game centers" in Japan with more than 445,000 game machines. Arcade Mania introduces overseas readers to the fascinating world of the Japanese gemu senta. Organized as a guided tour of a typical game center, the book is divided into nine chapters, each of which deals with a different kind of game, starting with the UFO catchers and print club machines at the entrance and continuing through rhythm games, fighting games, shooting games, retro games, gambling games, card-based games, and only-in-Japan games.
Covering classic games from Space Invaders to Street Fighter, games that are familiar to Americans in their home console versions (Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Dance, Dance Revolution), as well as the unique, quirky games found only in Japan, Arcade Mania is crammed full of interviews with game makers and star players, and packed with facts about the history, background and characteristics of each game, all lavishly illustrated with photographs and game graphics. via: Amazon
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Sony Animation partners with Gotham Group
Sony Pictures Animation has signed a first-look production deal with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein's the Gotham Group. Gotham Group is a leading management firm for toon and kids content creators, and have produced films as "The Spiderwick Chronicles. Gotham represents some of the top animation directors and writers as well as a broad range publishing houses and comicbook companies including Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Harper Collins Children's Books (U.S. & U.K.), Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt and Dark Horse Entertainment. Gotham is currently in production on "Dead Space," an animated feature for Starz channel and the 3-D CGI film "Quantum Quest," the first film ever initiated by NASA/JPL. The company also recently linked with the Chungnan Techno Park, Chungam province of South Korea and several South Korean corporations in a pubic-private partnership to form an animation fund totaling more than $300 million for the purpose of financing, producing and distributing six to eight animated and live-action/animated hybrid feature films.
Sesame Street: Street Gang by Michael Davis
Street Gang by: Michael Davis, is the compelling and often comical story of the creation and history of the beloved TV show. The book give insight on how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by Elmo. A story of how in November of 1969 Sesame Street revolutionized the way education was present to children through television. Sesame Street when on to become the longest running children's show in history.
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The Tale of Despereaux movie opening Christmas day
The Tale of Despereaux (fairytale) is a upcoming holiday family movie, due out 12/25/08. The Tale of Denereaux also has video games for consoles, XBOX 360, PLAYSTATION 2, Wii, and for your PC, that were released earlier this month. Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson and Tracey Ullman lead an all-star voice cast in the animated motion picture based on the Newbery Medal-winning children's bestseller. Directed by Sam Fell and Rob Stevenhagen and produced by Gary Ross and Allison Thomas. A little about The Tale of Despereaux film, the kingdom of Dor, Princess Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux discovers he is the only one who can rescue her.In this tale of bravery, forgiveness and redemption, one small creature will teach a kingdom that it takes only a little light to show the truth: what you look like doesn't equal what you are. Via : The Tale of Despereaux
Museum of Science and Industry Host global premiere of Harry Potter: The Exhibition
Harry Potter fans will have a chance to get a first-hand look inside the Harry Potters magical "The Exhibition" will open at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on 4/30/09 Tickets exclusively online @ Msichicago. The Exhibition gives visitors the opportunity to see authentic costumes, props, iconic artifacts plus scenic elements from the beloved films, such as those from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the Gryffindor common room and Hagrid's hut. In partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, Becker Group, which recently combined operations with Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, created the 10,000-square-foot exhibition.
The Shadow Collector Set Vol. 1-22
Nostalgia Town has reprinted the The Shadow. Originally a 1930s radio series voiced by Orson Welles, The Shadow has been featured in comic books, comic strips, television, video games, several motion pictures. The comic started in 1938 as a newspaper comic strip drawn by Vernon Greene. The Shadow aka Kent Allard was a famed aviator during World War I and crime fighter by night. The Shadow collector set includes 22 double novels. The set also includes stories like Tower of Death & The Hooded Circle", cover by George Rozen and Graves Gladney, interior illustrations by Tom Lovell and Edd Cartier. This set a great gift for the holidays! Via: Nostalgia Town
The Art Book for Children Book TWO
The Art Book for Children Book TWO Published by: Phaidon Press. By Amanda Ranshaw. Paintings of the 14th and 15th centuries from European, Asian, and American contemporary photographs, wrap art, calligraphic art as it invites viewers to take more than a cursory look. Questions encourage readers to observe details.
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Paddington Bear
Is currently celebrating his 50th Anniversary Year, Paddington appeared in 1958 Written by Michael Bond and first illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. The polite immigrant bear from Darkest Peru, with his old bush hat, battered suitcase and marmalade sandwiches has become a classic English children's literature icon. Paddington likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble. However, he is known to "try so hard to get things right".
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The exhibition also includes works by Moyoco Anno, Lynda Barry, Marcel Broodthaers, Chester Brown, Cao Fei, Milt Gross, Pierre Huyghe, Ichiro Itano, Tim Johnson, Yoko Kanno, Satoshi Kon, Harvey Kurtzman, John Lasseter, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Winsor McCay, Sid Meier, Shigeru Miyamoto, Junko Mizuno, Mamoru Nagano, Claes Oldenburg, Mamoru Oshii, Katsuhiro Otomo, Nick Park, Raymond Pettibon, Seth, Iwatani Toru, Chris Ware, Masaaki Yuasa and many more." the book will be available in May and the Exhibit will be leave Vancouver and headed to NYC in early 2009, Moresay say will keep you posted.
Milo Manara
Maurilio Manara is best known as Milo Manara, A Italian Comic writer and artist who creates his own medium with his provocative pictures of females. Manara has recently come out with his Limited Deluxe Edition KamaSutra 72 page art book. Which can be pre-ordered off his official site Milo Manara, for 180.00 Euros. The book is printed on special pearl paper and shows unpublished drawings by
New Yorker cartoons
Produced by The New Yorker Magazine, 342 cartoons from September 2006 to September 2007 includes the work of over 60 beloved New Yorker artists. Can be purchased at Cartoonbank
The Manga Bible
Features the art of acclaimed comic book artist Siku, whose work has graced the pages of Marvel and 2000AD. Resource: Active Anime
The new Animation Magazine 20th Anniversary volume
315 pages features colorful reproductions of all of Animation Magazine’s cover arts for the past two decades about all the talented people, features, TV series, shorts and games that have shaped the animation world in the past 20 years in one collector’s edition. Celebrate the art, technology and business of animation and VFX with insightful interviews and articles penned by the likes of John Lasseter, Bill Plympton, John Canemaker, Craig McCracken, Sylvain Chomet, Peter Lord, Leonard Maltin, Nancy Cartwright and Linda Simensky. Buy Here.
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