Fred Patten was an anime fan before most of this generation of fans were born, back when color television was a novelty and the idea of playing back TV shows on tapes and discs was a science fiction fantasy. Actually, Patten was a big part of the science fiction and fantasy world before he was drawn into anime fandom in the mid-1970’s.
When I decided to buy this book I was looking for something about anime & manga, but nothing in the complicated path that many books…

Welcome to the first ‘’normal’’ issue of Conan the Cimmerian, the ongoing Conan series from Dark Horse comics. If the special number zero was just an introduction, things start to get on their way in this first issue. We get the first glimpses of the story and we can see both the art of Tomas Giorello and Richard Corben.

This number one issue that I have has a variant cover by Joe Kubert, and is currently unavailable at tfaw.com, but you can buy the one…

And here I am, back with the third Conan omnibus from Dark Horse, The Savage Sword of Conan volume three. Wait, where is volume 2? Well, I didn’t bought that yet, due to… unavailability. But I checked tfaw.com, and its available now, so I guess ill order it with the next shipment. So, I bought my copy from tfaw, it is a nick & dent book (I only buy nick & dents when the book is very thick, I don’t dare do this with thinner books or regular comics) which I purchased with $7.98…

This article is based on various interviews,columns and materials from darkhorse.com and around the internet. It was a small pain to gather the information but it was worth it and I hope the next article will be even better.

Considered the oldest independent manga publisher from USA, Dark Horse was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson and the manga division started to function in 1988. The first manga they ever published was Godzilla by Kazuhisa Iwata. When Godzilla appeared…