When life ends...adventure begins.

6.15.09

AnimeNext in New Jersey was really great this weekend! We did a Sailor Senshi/Vegas crossover performance that went super and was so much fun to do! Thanks to everyone who stopped by after the show to say hi or get an autograph...it was awesome seeing you!!



Next up is Otakon in Baltimore in July! I'm doing a cosplay makeup panel there that I hope you'll be able to attend!

-M. Alice




5.03.09

Hey all!

A-Kon in Dallas, Texas is coming up at the end of this month! If you haven't already, you can still go to the A-Kon website and buy tickets to have brunch on Sunday with me and all the other guests of the con! There'll be a live band, good food and all sorts of fun things. Just follow the link below to check it out!

BANQUET WITH THE STARS



I'll be doing a lot of cool panels and appearances at this con as usual...in particular, I'm doing two panels on Saturday concerning the comics industry and how to get your work reviewed and published. I hope you'll all come check it out!

-M. Alice


3.10.09

What's up!

People have been asking when the next volume of Bizenghast will be released to stores. The store date is JULY 2009, but I believe you'll be able to get it earlier on amazon.com and other sites!

Also, a cool bit of news: Bizenghast tshirts will now be sold at Target stores across America! Although the number of stores is limited for now, they may eventually make it into every Target, depending on sales. Check out one of the designs!



NEXT CONVENTION APPEARANCE:

MAY 29th - 31st: A-Kon in Dallas, TX

I'll be signing autographs, hosting a few workshop panels and judging the masquerade. I hope you'll be there!

FUTURE DATES:

JUNE 12-14th: AnimeNext in Somerset, NJ

JULY 17th-19th: Otakon in Baltimore, MD

JULY 23-26th: SDCC in San Diego, CA

SEPTEMBER 4-7: Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA

And remember, don't forget to pick up your copy of April's Gothic and Lolita Bible from Tokyopop, Inc, with a cool photoshoot spread of yours truly and friends!





-M. Alice


2.28.09

Hey everyone!

I have some nice handmade chokers up for sale on my Etsy store...I hope you'll go check them out!

---->MY ETSY STORE

M


12.03.08

What's up, guys!

Hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving! Just wanted to tell you that I posted a cool little craft project in my Wonderful Wockets blog (link to the left). You can make your OWN little Paper Mausoleum in 20 minutes or less! Directions and printouts for the pieces are on the blog. Go check it out!

-M. Alice

11.09.08

Hey kids!

You know what time it is! ANNOTATED BIZENGHAST TIME!

This is the time of year when I sell very special one-of-a-kind volumes of Bizenghast, known as the Annotated Volumes. Annotated volumes are books of Bizenghast that I go through with my trusty MAGIC PEN and scribble lots of cool facts, behind-the-scenes info and fun commentary into the margins. You'll learn stuff you never knew about Bizenghast! You'll learn stuff you never WANTED to know about Bizenghast! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll finally see where I hid all the random doodles of marshmallow ghosts in every book! At least once in every book I also draw a Batman mask on someone! IT'S CRAZY!

In addition to FACTS AND KNOWLEDGE about the series, there's also loads of silly drawings and sillier doodles I add in just for fun! And the whole thing is autographed on the front cover in silver pen and includes a special three-panel comic drawn on the inside front page!

Annotated volumes are ONE PER BOOK. That means only ONE copy of books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 will ever be annotated! There will NEVER BE MORE. EVER. Each annotated volume is totally unique and special, like children in private school.

So if you ain't winning these auctions then you AIN'T GETTIN THEM EVER. Act now or forever wallow in regret!

BOOK 4: LINK

BOOK 5: LINK

-M!


10.28.08

WHAT'S UP, EVERYONE!!
After a VERY long transitional period in which the hosting service for this site changed over from moon language to earth-currency or whatever the heck it is they were so busy doing, I FINALLY have access to update my site again! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in months, but I literally did not have access to do so. Now I'm back, so YAY and celebrations!

Some new info:

1.There's a BRAND NEW forum for Bizenghast fans, which I have updated in the forum link to the left. Please go check it out and meet up with all your old forum buddies!

2. Book 5 of Bizenghast was released this summer and is now for sale in finer bookstores across America (and in the land of british people, too!). For those of you who are international, you can buy Bizenghast 5 on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, or other dot coms across the net. Visit amazon.com HERE to purchase it!
The Bizenghast novel is ALSO available! This book, written by excellent snakey writer Shawn Thorgerson, is a creative adaptation of the first volume of Bizenghast, expanded to include the entire story of Dinah annd Vincent's complete volume one adventures...including never-before-seen vaults, never-before-seen illustrations and never-before-seen nonsense from your favorite green thing, Edaniel! Faithful to the original source, yet able to elaborate and create a world all of its own, if you're a fan of Bizenghast then the novel is a MUST for you. Buy HERE at amazon.com right now!

3. Finally, I'll be giving the whole site an overhaul in the coming months, and updating with some fun new recurring content I hope you'll all enjoy! Thanks to all BZG fans who have contirbuted to the success of the series! You guys RAWK!

-M. Alice

02.23.08

Hey all!
Well, the official Bizenghast Adventure game is nearing completion and set to go on sale around march of this year, woo! The game engine was designed by Clint Krause, who you can check out at his website HERE. So grab your 20-sided dice and a case of Mountain Dew and get ready for AMAZING BIZENGHAST TABLETOP ACTION.

Also, I'll be at SakuraCon next month in Seattle, March 28th-30. On the 26th and 27th, I'll be speaking at the local Kings County Library as well. I hope to see you there!



-MAlice


01.08.08

Happy New Year, everyone! Hope you're sticking to your resolutions so far!

Just wanted to tell you that I'll be appearing at the Penn Convention Center in Philadelphia PA, THIS weekend (Jan. 11th) for the American Library Association's midwinter meeting! I'll be at the TOKYOPOP booth at noon on Saturday, signing autographs and helping to promote comics in school libraries across the nation by donating signed copies of Bizenghast to local school libraries!

Here's the convention center's site, including location and driving directions: LINK

And the ALA official site: LINK

If you're in the area, I hope you'll come out and see me and help support your local library!

MAlice


12.02.07

What up, everyone! The host of our forum site went down so I've started up a 2.0 version of the Bizenghast forum on a new site! I'm sorry I couldn't save everyone's previous ranks from the other forum, but I spose a new version is better than no version, right?

Just a reminder, I'll be at New York Anime Fest THIS month, December 7-9th, at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC. For more info, visit their site! LINK

MAlice


11.18.07

Hey guys!

Long time no update, I been terribly busy. Just wanted to pop in with a few things:
1)There's a fab new novel series based on Bizenghast coming out soon, and I can't wait for it! I'll give you more updates as they occur!

2)Check out the Series section, I put up a little slideshow with environment sketches from Bizenghast, as well as never-before-seen prehistorically ancient BZG concept art from before the series went into production! Yay!

3)I'll be at the New York Anime Festival this December doing several panels and signings, as well as the December launch of book 4 of Bizenghast, hurrah! Hope to see you there!


02.19.07

New iDaniel letters are up! Check em out! Also, I'll be at New York Comicon this weekend of February 23rd, mostly hangin round the Tokyopop booth, and also doing two costuming workshops and a signing!

NYCC will be happening at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC. Check out their site for directions, info, etc here: NYCC

Here's my appearance schedule for the weekend:

Friday 7:30 PM: Signing at the TOKYOPOP booth with other TP creators!

Saturday 11:30 AM: Cosplay workshop 1 of 2 at the TOKYOPOP booth

Saturday 1:30: Signing with other Mangaka America artists at the Harper Collins Booth

Sunday 1:30 PM: Cosplay workshop 2 of 2 at the TOKYOPOP booth

I'll also have some brand new costumes at the con (some for me and some for my editor Lillian!), so look for the girl dressed as Ariel from The Little Mermaid if you want to find me. Please come and show your BZG support by attending my awesome workshops!! Thank you!

MAlice


02.05.07

Hey all! I have a new project journal, called Wonderful Wockets, over at LiveJournal. I'll be putting up a permanent button to it soon, but for now here's the link: Wonderful Wockets It's a journal containing a lot of my in-progress work on the Bizenghast series, and also a lot of non-BZG related projects that I'm doing on the side.

Also, I have a bunch of auctions up this week on ebay. Right now is a lot of Dollfie stuff and a bunch of different lots of Bizenghast keychains, and later this week I'll be selling an annotated and signed copy of the first Bizenghast Stickerbooks! Please check it out! eBay Auctions

Finally, I'll be at New York Comicon this month, signing autographs and eating all the food. Please stop by the Tokyopop or Harper Collins booths and say hello!

01.16.07

Hey dudes, just want to let you know I'll be at Phoenix Comicon in Arizona in two weeks and I'll have mucho coolness for sale at my table! HIGHLY cool things made especially for this con. I hope you'll drop by my table and say hi!

MAlice

Dec.21.06

Hey everyone! It's almost Christmas, yaaaay! My cats Ming and Severus have been knocking all the ornaments off my tree and running around with the present bows in their mouths...it's their first Christmas. My friends G-chan and Dorian came over the night I got the tree and we made some of our own ornaments out of construction paper and markers, then ran them through my laminating machine...they look really cute!

MAlice


Oct.23.2006

Hey y'all! Just a quick update on a couple things today:

1. I don't know when the third volume of Bizenghast will come out. Not anytime soon, seeing as I'm still drawing it as we speak (no really, it's sitting right here next to me in page-sketch form!). I would say that if you want to know the status of volume 3, log on to www.tokyopop.com and check out the Bizenghast section. It'll tell you exactly when it's supposed to be out in stores!

2. You CAN get the Bizenghast stickerbook NOW on Amazon.com, wheee! Stickerbook MADNESS!

3. Edaniel has updated his column, but he has very few letters to answer because HostOnce, the service that hosts this site, recently changed its email service over and much of mine and Edaniel's mail was lost. So if you sent a question for me or Edaniel BEFORE TWO WEEKS AGO that hasn't been answered here, please resend it!

I'm currently busy on book 3 and on making models of different Bizenghast sets for reference. I'll post a gallery of them here when they're completed. :)

Malice


Sep.05.2006

All peoples are commanded to read my friend Evande's amazing Bizenghast fanfiction, entitled "Edaniel's Busy Day." You can find the link to said fanfiction immediately after the period that ends this sentence. THE LINK

Evadne, my personal best friend of some 14-odd years, wrote this fanfiction under strict orders to adhere to a format of my choosing, which is to say a very stupid and pointless one.


Aug.4.2006

Whew! After a colossal effort, I'm now established in my new house! My own fancy townhouse just for me! But of course it's just around the corner from my friends so I won't be lonely. I'm so happy to be here, but the heat wave is really dampening my enthusiasm.

This update is a long time in coming, but check out my awesome friend Lolichan's Dinah costume!



Lolichan worked SO hard on this outfit, and I have to give extra kudos to the "poncho thing from hell," since she made all those little black lines by hand. She also had to design most of the bodice herself since the poncho covers it up most of the time, and I think it looks very much like how I pictured it myself. Crazy! You can visit her website at Lolichan.net to read more about the work that went into this costume, as well as check out her other awesome cosplay outfits!

Speaking of which, I know that a few other people have cosplayed Bizenghast, and I'm working on a gallery for BZG cosplayers right now, to go on this site. If you've done a Bizenghast costume (or plan to do one soon!) please email me at QueenAlice@Bizenghast.com with photos and anything else you'd like to add. I hope to make a showcase of cosplayers and do some interviews as well. Thanks very much!

-Malice

Jun.26.06

Wow, what a long time since I've been able to update! I've had login problems with this site for quite a while. But now I can update about some important news, as well as a new column of iDaniel!

Well, book two of Bizenghast has been out for two weeks and it's already in the Top 50 graphic novels sold in the US...thanks so much, you guys! I'm currently hard at work on book 3, which I hope to make a thousand percent better than the previous books!

The weekend after next, from June 7th to 9th, I'll be a guest at Connecticon, at the Hartford Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut! Not only will I be hosting some fun panels and possibly participating in the human cosplay chess, but I'll also have a booth with lots of crazy Bizenghast stuff for sale...postcards, signed books, keychains, dolls and other nutty stuff!



Feb.2.06

Hey everyone! It's been a LONG while since I updated. I've been working super hard on book two of Bizenghast. For those who asked, the release date for volume two is the second week of JUNE, 2006. It's a few months away, but it'll be worth it! Lots of sassback from Edaniel and a new character! Previews from the book will be up soon.

New iDaniel column up today...Edaniel, like me, is very lazy in answering his mail. But hopefully he'll do a better job of it in the future.

I'm so sad today...my hamster Sherlock Holmes died yesterday. He was a very old hamster, but it still made me cry. He was a good hamster. Sherlock was given a burial in the backyard in a small wooden casket, along with his favorite possessions.

This month I'll be at Katsucon in Virginia...I hope I see you all there!

-Malice

Oct.26.05 Wednesday chat tonight! Hit the Chat feature button to the left to enter the chat room. You must have Activex and Java stuff installed to use the room, which you will be prompted to install if you don't already have it. It only takes a few seconds. :) Meet you there at eight PM easterm tonight!

-Malice

Oct.24.05

Some fun updates for y'all. A lot of people have asked when volume two of Bizenghast is coming out. The street date is tentatively set for the first week of March 2006. I fixed the DeviantArt link to the right so you can check out some previews from the next volume. :) I've also added more art to the gallery section. I've also added a chat room to this site! Every Wednesday at 8 pm eastern (6 pm pacific) is the weekly scheduled chat when I'll be on, along with the occasional guest speaker or super snake. :) Of course, you're welcome to use the room for your own chats throughout the week as well!

New page previews from volume two of Bizenghast will be posted in the Series section soon, along with some early character sketches from before Bizenghast was created! See ya!

-Malice

Aug.07.05

Tokyopop
has issued a retraction regarding the comments printed in the back of Bizenghast, volume one. You can check it out HERE.

Aug.03.05

Just a small but badly-needed clarification for those of you who have read Takuhai (July issue) or purchased volume one of Bizenghast early.

That comment in the back of the book about my not wanting people to cosplay BZG characters unless they do them right? Yeah, I NEVER SAID THAT. I had no idea that statement was even IN the book or in Takuhai until both publications were given to me at ComiCon a few weeks ago. That piece was written by a former editor of Tokyopop who, in all honesty, was trying to put a "hip and sassy" spin on my book and failed utterly. It was included without my knowledge or consent.

I was livid when I found out about this and am requesting that Tokyopop issue a statement on their site regarding this outrageous comment, as it is totally not in keeping with my opinions. I love all cosplayers, being one myself, and I don't discriminate against anyone based on talent, skill level, dedication or any other reason. I'm thrilled that anyone would cosplay my characters at all and I am extremely angry about this situation. Please check back later to see how this develops. Hopefully Tokyopop will issue some sort of formal retraction.

Jul.1.05

Newtype USA kindly made me their July Cosplayer of the Month! Click on the image below to read the full article.

Just a reminder: In two weeks I'll be at San Diego ComiCon, so drop by and say hello!

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