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Turn down the lights and crank up the Bauhaus, Phantasmic goes goth.

We have a discussion with two story board artists, Eliana and Lilah, on goth fashion, art, and how it has transformed over time by cross pollinating with Japanese pop culture.

During Monsterpalooza 2023 Phantasmic sat down with artist Tom Franck to discuss the newly released Shin Kamen Rider, how the Shin trillogy has shaped up, Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, and how Japan handles their superhero re-tellings.

Friend of the site, Blind Dweller, recently posted an in depth look at the work of artist Shintaro Kago. Give it a watch!

On February 13th, 2023, Leiji Matsumoto passed away. It is nigh impossible to encapsulate his reach in a few words, and others have chronicled his works, so I will focus on the personal. My first encounter with his work came in the form of Fred Schodt’s 1983 tome, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics, which I purchased from the New York Kinokuniya back in the days when they were in Rockefeller Center

Now streaming on Shudder and still playing in theaters, Skinamarink is directed by Kyle Edward Ball and evokes the memory of The Blair Witch Project as an ultra-low budget horror film spread by word of mouth online and garnering polarizing reviews. Where Blair Witch relied on the internet to spread the word of its release, Skinamarink is a byproduct itself of the internet. 

This title retreads some familiar territory for fans of modern Japanese ghost stories: inescapable doom, long haired specters, ancient religions encroaching on sterile urban life. But where PTSD Radio excels is in its oppressive atmosphere, slow burn story, and shocking art. PTSD Radio is the first work by Nakayama to get released in English, though his previous manga, Fuan no Tane, was actively passed around on social media, getting him a cult following due to his knack of blending the nightmarish and the familiar. 

Happy Halloween, everybody! Here at Phantasmic it's kinda like Halloween every day, but on this auspicious holiday we wanted to take a quick look at five particularly gruesome and spooky artists in our vast collection.

What if losing the body was just the beginning of something grander and more terrible? Now on AMC+ and HiDive (in the United States, anyways), Pantheon is adapted from Ken Liu's short stories "The Gods Will Not Be Chained

We have a quick read up for Sculptors Issue 7, which is available NOW! Sculptors is a modeling and hobby magazine for seasoned pros and people that just want to admire Japanese art alike. Each issue has a breadth of different artists making new and original creations.

When I was a kid, Predator moved pretty quickly from terrifying movie monster to marketable and collectible sci-fi Jason analog. The 90s in particular had Predator 2, a slew of action figures from Kenner, comic book crossovers with Batman, novels, video games.  It became a fever pitch of MORE MORE MORE

Conventions have become a well oiled machine in many situations, bordering on being colossal juggernauts like Anime NYC and San Diego Comic Con. So it’s extra refreshing to partake in smaller cons that you can get the gist of in one afternoon and don’t have attendance numbers in the tens (or hundreds) of thousands. The Five Points Fest is one such convention. 

The master of biomechanoids comes to America in HR Giger NY City. Published by Kaleidoscope, this art book is available from Phantasmic. We took a look inside Giger's unique travelogue in 1970s New York. Transcript of the video is below.