In the wake of nine deaths tied to the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Seattle area, three major publishers announced on Tuesday that they are pulling out of Emerald City Comic Con.

Aker came to VIZ Media in 2007, so we asked her to share her long view of the manga industry with us.

Penguin Random House announced The World of Critical Role, a hardcover book about the popular fantasy roleplaying live-stream Critical Role, for release on September 15.

IDW Games, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products and DC, announced Batman: The Animated Series Adventures: Shadow of the Bat, a miniatures board game, for release into trade in Fall of 2020 pending a successful Kickstarter which begins on February 18.

The 19th Annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is on May 2, 2020, and Diamond Comic Distributors just released the Silver Sponsor titles for this event as well as the FCBD 2020 t-shirt design by artist Jeffrey Brown.

Three announcements of new hires arrived Monday, bringing news of hires at VIZ Media and Vault Comics.

We interviewed Square Enix General Manager Masaaki Shimizu about the company's plans to publish manga directly in the U.S.

Luma Games and Brain Games have reached an agreement for Luma to exclusively distribute Brain Games' tabletop games in North America.

The geek movie news has been flying recently, and we round it up here.

This week's home entertainment releases include the #1 film of 2018, plus the first live-action Pokemon movie, an Aretha Franklin documentary saved from the scrapheap with a computer restoration, a brilliant martial arts film from the auteur of The House of Flying Daggers, the latest seasons of the Archie Comics-inspired Riverdale and the Stephen King-based Mr. Mercedes, as well as new episodes of the white hot anime science fiction series Attack on Titan.