Monthly Archives: October 2007

With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, vol. 1 By Keiko Tobe Rated All Ages Yen Press, $14.99 Japan may have manga for every topic, as we are so often told, but the range of titles translated into English is … Continue reading →

I didn’t realize Publishers Weekly did alternate covers, but this week there seem to be two, and Naruto is the cover boy on one of them. The other has a Bible, and inside is this cover story about new ways … Continue reading →

Comicsnob Matt Blind posts this week’s manga watch list. At the MangaCast, Ed Chavez posts an overview of Morning magazine and discusses a couple of the stories it carries. He also links to some fresh previews. Yaoi Suki presents part … Continue reading →

Wow, this is ambitious: ComiPress translator John Gallagher is translating (with the author’s consent) Udagawa Takeo’s Manga Zombie, a book about “outsider” manga artists in Japan. At PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei looks at this week’s new manga. The … Continue reading →

Although Manga: The Complete Guide has already started making the rounds, the big launch party is tonight. To celebrate, former housemate Patrick Macias revisits a 2006 article about Thompson and Shaenon Garrity turns the Overlooked Manga Festival over to him … Continue reading →

The Naruto wave continues to break over the USA Today Booklist, with vol. 21 debuting at number 69, vol. 20 at number 77, and vol. 19 at number 82. Vol. 21 of Bleach also hits the charts at number 109. … Continue reading →