The Anime Blog – We Go Beyond Anime!

The Anime Blog reader and contributor Liz Ohanesian has another L.A. Weekly article, this time about a Top Space Cowboys from TV and Film, featuring Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop (he’s number two). Here’s an excerpt:

Spike Wins Second Place Space Cowboy Race!

Heroes of the Final Frontier: Top 5 Space Cowboys from TV and Film

Number Two – Spike Spiegel, Cowboy Bebop: From the U.S. to Japan, space cowboys have captured the imagination of sci-fi fans. Joss Whedon’s short-lived television series Firefly became a cult classic, spawning a feature film, several books, including comics, a role-playing game and a fan convention. More recently, producer Erwin Stoff (The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly) announced that he has a live-action film version of the popular anime Cowboy Bebop in the works…(Continue reading at LAWeekly.com)

Liz Ohanesian is a Los Angeles-based journalist covering music, media and club culture. She is a staff writer for Club World and her work regularly appears in such publications as the L.A. Weekly, Razorcake and Outburn. She has written for such publications as Punk Planet, PopMatters, Santa Monica Mirror and others.