San Diego Comic-Con 2008 News Round Up

A round up of SDCC 2008 manga-related news, reports, and more from around the internet, updated constantly, so you don't have to look for them.

• Official Site
• Anime/Manga Programming

General:

• ANN: An Anime Fan's Guide to Comic-Con 2008, Part One: Panels, Panels, Panels!
  - An overview of the SDCC panel schedules and whatnot.
• An Anime Fan's Guide to Comic-Con, Part II
  - A detailed look at the exhibition hall, events, games, screenings and autographs.
• MangaBlog: SDCC: Del Rey, Bandai, CMX
  - We linkblog MangaBlog who linkblogs links to links on SDCC.
• MangaBlog: SDCC: Viz, Broccoli, and the Eisners
  - More links of links.
• AnimeCon SDCC Links
• KPBS Comic-Con News
  - The official news blog!
• PWCW: More Crowds, More Comics at San Diego
  - Brought to you by the tag team of Heidi MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kai-Ming Cha.
• CCI: It's Bat-Manga!
  - Should be in the DC section actually.
• Manga Xanadu: San Diego Comic Con: Day 1
  - Really cool blog theme.
• Manga Xanadu: San Diego Comic Con: Day 2
• About:Manga: Comic-Con '08 Catch-up: Bat Manga! With Chip Kidd
  - Apparently the crew over at About:Manga knows no sleep.
• About:Manga: Preview Night at Comic-Con '08: Toys 'n' Manga Highlights
  - Finally realized About.com:Manga is actually a manga BLOG.
• About:Manga: Thursday's Manga and Anime Highlights
• About:Manga: Friday's Manga and Anime Highlights
• About:Manga: A Midday Pause In The Manga Madness
• One Potato Two: 2008 Comic-Con Day 00
  - The preview of preview.
• One Potato Two: 2008 Comic-Con Day 0
  - The preview.
• One Potato Two: 2008 Comic-Con Day 1
  - One Potato.
• One Potato Two: 2008 Comic-Con Day 2
  - Two Potato.
• One Potato Two: 2008 Comic-Con Day 3
  - Three Potato.
• Blog@Newsarama SDCC Reports
  - Everything from Newsarama that's tagged SDCC.
• IGN SDCC Reports
• CRB SDCC Reports
• Could Comic-Con leave San Diego?
• Interview with Takashi ("Bob") Okazaki
• ICv2: San Diego Comic Con's Big Picture
• ComicMix: All the Manga News
  - We just wanted to create a space-time paradox through the link-link, that's all.

Gallery:

• ANN: Exhibit Hall Gallery Part I
  - Gallery Part 1.
• ANN: Exhibit Hall Gallery Part II
  - There's a large Pikachu.
• ANN: Cosplay and Booth Babes
  - And the real reason people goes to Comic-Con.
• About:Manga San Diego Comic-Con 2008 Photo Gallery
  - Brought to you by About:Manga, taking over the manga blogosphere by storm.
• Comics212's photostream
  - Flickr gallery.
• Dread Central San Diego Comic Con 2008
  - Galleries of cosplay, toys, and more.
• Action-Figure Gallery
  - Not much manga stuff here, actually.
• Ain't It Cool News
  - "Quint has a ton of pics from the floor of Comic-Con! SPIRIT, WATCHMEN, GOON, Weta's HALO line, NECA and more!!!"
• Toy News International
  - A gallery separeated by days.
• Entries from Fancast: The Big Picture tagged with 'Comic-Con'
• Usagi Yojimbo San Diego Comic Con 2008

Video (Mostly non-manga):

• Giapet: Hiro Mashima Draws Natsu
  - And proceeds to sell it on Ebay.
• LA Times Blog: Comic-Con Video
• The Movie Blog: Comic Con Day 1 Experiences
• Buddy TV
• O-Meon
• Game Trailers
• Super Hero Flix

Audio:

• Cammy's Comic-Con Corner - Friday

Eisner:

• 2008 Eisner and Other Award Winners
  - The official list from the official site.
• Giapet: Oh, You Eisners
• The Beat: Live Blogging the Eisners!
• About:Manga: Tekkon Kinkreet Scores Sole Eisner Win for Manga

Bandai:

• ANN: Bandai Entertainment
  - Mostly anime news, with a little manga info sprinkles here and there.
• Giapet: Bandai Entertainment

Broccoli Books:

• ANN: Broccoli Books
• Giapet: sdcc: Broccoli

CMX:

• Giapet: SDCC: So Do I Still Need To Go To The CMX Panel?
  - Probably not.
• Giapet: sdcc: CMX
  - Fine! Don't listen to us -_^
• ANN: CMX
  - There are love for CMX afterall!

Dark Horse:

• ANN: Dark Horse
  - Short coverage on DH.
• Giapet: SDCC: Dark Horse

Del Rey Manga:

• ANN: Del Rey Manga
• Giapet: Random House/Del Rey
• Giapet: sdcc: Hiro Mashima Spotlight
  - Focused on Hiro Mashima.
• About:Manga: How to Meet Fairy Tail Manga-ka Hiro Mashima
  - How to meet the mangaka.
• About:Manga: How to Meet Fairy Tail Manga-ka Hiro Mashima
  - How to meet the mangaka.
• ICv2: Del Rey to Publish 'Clamp in America'

Viz Media:

• ANN: Viz Media Anime/Manga
  - General overview of Viz.
• ANN: Viz Media: Shonen Jump
  - Focused on Shonen Jump.
• ANN: Viz Media: Shojo Beat
  - And just so we can have three Viz-related articles, here comes Shojo Beat!
• Giapet: SDCC: VIZ
• Giapet: sdcc: VIZ Shojo Beat
  - Gia's take on Shojo Beat.
• Giapet: SDCC: VIZ Shonen Jump
  - Gia's take on Shonen Jump.
• Giapet: sdcc: Tite Kubo spotlight
  - Included in the Viz section since Viz owns most of Kubo's titles.
• Japanator: Viz kidnapps Naoki Urasawa and his manga
  - Everybody's talking about it.
• About.com:Manga: VIZ Brings 20th Century Boys, Pluto Manga to U.S. in '09
  - More Naoki Urasawa goodness.
• About:Manga: Stan Lee Jumps Into Shonen Jump Manga Panel

Yen Press:

• Giapet: sdcc: Yen Press
  - One of the few reports on Yen Press.
• About:Manga: Yen Press Adds Cirque du Freak, More 4-Panel Manga
  - The reports are finally coming in.
• ANN: Yen Press
• ICv2: Yen Acquires 'Cirque du Freak' Manga