Broccoli Books Blog

Former Broccoli USA staff Ardith sent couple links of reviews & writings from the web.

Dead Sea Scrolls 606: Third Impact did a short review on COSMODE USA Glamour Issue

And Rocket Bomber did a little review of Broccoli Books as a whole.

And a blog called Sam’s Anime Study did a review on Kon Kon Kokon vol 1.

Hello this is Yukiko!

New page for our new hardcover book is added to BroccoliBooks website.
It is COSMODE USA Glamour Issue page!
If you like to cosplay, this would be the perfect book to have.
COSMODE USA contains the following:

• Cosplayer Photo Gallery
• Event Photos
• Costume Patterns
• Wig Styling Guide
• Event Etiquette
• Cosplayer & Photographer Profiles

You can order this book from dot-anime.us, or pick them up at Comic Con!

Hi blogger Shiz again.

Today is a day full of proof checking.
We received the COSMODE USA vol 1 proofs from our Hong Kong printers today.

The first issue of COSMODE USA will be called the Glamour Issue.
What’s with the naming? It was our Japan coordinator “Jacky” Dousai’s concept of the first issue.

I’ll talk more about the background of COSMODE USA Glamour Issue when we’re done looking over the proofs. We know there’s a lot of little fixes that needs to be made.

Hmm. We don’t have the product available on dot-anime.us. I’ll have to ask retail operations manager Dennis to add it soon.

Hi, blogger Shiz dying in the trenches here.

I’ve been working from home for the last three weeks.
One of the reasons for working at home is the surgery I had in the beginning of the month… and I’ve been working non-stop on getting COSMODE USA ready.

It’s been weeks of gathering materials, contacting US cosplayers & photographers, translating, looking up the spellings of character names & series titles, assigning work to layout staff, re-working the pagination sheet…

I’ve recruited help from all over, and a ton of people have been helpful. But there’s still a lot of work.

So tonight is the crunch time.
Designer Chris, freelance editor Dee, copy editor Cee and I took over most of the office desk space & floor space w/ cut up copies of the Japanese COSMODE magazine and print outs of the English script & layout.

Here are the lovely staff who worked all night long.

It’s currently 2:30am & we’re still going. If we’re lucky, we’ll go home before 4am.

PS. Retail operations manager Dennis even helped out until 2am. I have to add him to the credits page.

I’ll be hosting a COSMODE panel at Animagic tomorrow in Lancaster, CA.

I don’t have anything prepared, but we’ll make it a fun lively discussion about cosplay & COSMODE.

Plus some plans on the annual COSMODE photoshoot.

See you there!

COSMODE panel by Broccoli Books at Animagic 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007
2:00pm - 3:00pm