Helen McCarthy’s 500 Essential Anime Movies is published

The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Revised & Expanded Edition) Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy 2007 Titan Books 896 pp £19.99 This is one book that no serious anime fan can afford to be without. Inevitably, it can’t compete with the internet, especially if you want to look up a series … Continued

“If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?” – T. H. Huxley. First published in 2001, with an expanded edition in 2006, it has now been around eight to nine years since the last edition of probably the most important reference … Continued

British writer and curator of the Barbican’s Japanimation series, Helen McCarthy‘s The Art of Osamu Tezuka was nominated for a HArvey Award in the Best American Edition of Foreign Material category. The other nominees are “Manga Kamishibai”, by Eric P. Nash; “The Photographer”, by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier LeFevre and Frederic Lemercier; “PLUTO: Urasawa X Tezuka”, … Continued

For those of you who intend to buy the newly revised “Anime Encyclopedia”, authors Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy will be on hand at Farringdons book store in the London Barbican from 7pm – 7.45pm on Tuesday, 24th April 2007 to sign copies. At 8.30pm, Helen McCarthy will present a talk on “Urban Mythmaking  -­ … Continued

Anime News Network have run a story listing a series of free talks connected to the world of manga. These talks are running as an accompaniment to a free manga exhibition called Manga Now: Three Generations which is on at the British Museum and features newly-commissioned work by the artists Tetsuya Chiba (Ashita no Joe), … Continued