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“Tokyo: Art and Photography” exhibition opens at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
Find out more about this wide-ranging exhibition dedicated to art and culture in Japan’s capital
Get Ready: Free Comic Book Day returns to comic shops this August – British Blade Runner, Judge Dredd titles included
Look out for some great free comics, coming soon, as FCBD returns
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Future Primitive Magazine #1
Explore a fantasy world – built in Brighton and Serbia!
Manga Yokai Stories offers some ghostly tales from Japan, retold by Sean Michael Wilson and Inko
Ghostly manga tales on their way to a bookshop near you…
Japan Society offers free online “Manga Drawing for Wellbeing” workshop with Fumio Obata
Manga creator? Don’t miss this free online workshop next month
Kadokawa Corporation launches international EJ ANiME STORE for Animé and Manga fans
The Kadokawa Corporation, known as the entertainment company behind globally popular works including Re: Zero – Starting Life in Another World and Sword Art Online, has announced the opening of the EJ ANiME STORE, an online store where people living… Read More ›
Limited edition Wally Wood exhibition catalogue now available to order from Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême
Three of the major exhibitions at this year’s Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême in France are accompanied by a substantial, deluxe, limited-edition hardcover catalogues, including the Wallace “Wally” Wood exhibition
Talking Manga: An Interview with British Museum curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Holly Rose Swinyard, editor of The Cosplay Journal, recently sat down with Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, curator of the British Museum’s Manga Exhibition, which runs until 26th August 2019, and has kindly shared part of their interview with downthetubes as a… Read More ›
#HelpKyoAniHeal appeal raises over a million dollars so far after tragic attack on studio
A crowdfunding campaign, #HelpKyoAniHeal, to support those impacted by the tragic attack on award-winning Kyōto Animation in Uji, Japan, has raised over one million dollars in support so far