Monthly Archives: January 2010

PR: Highlights from Viz's spring releases

This press release highlights a variety of new manga due out from Viz this spring, including the Stan Lee-Hiroyuki Takei collaboration Ultimo, several titles from the SigIKKI online comics site, some teen shoujo titles from the Shojo Beat imprint, and … Continue reading

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Tuesday quick links

Bleach is the only manga to crack the top 10 in Diamond’s top 300 graphic novels list for December. ICv2’s analysis of December sales shows a drop in graphic novel sales, although the fact that Diamond skipped a week may … Continue reading

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Princess Knight rides again

Christopher Butcher continues his excellent series on manga milestones with a look at Raijin Comics #46 and Antique Bakery. The Manga Village team picks the most interesting titles from the past week’s new releases. Tangognat takes a look at the … Continue reading

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Meta: Making your site user-friendly

I’m not an expert on blogging by any means, but I do spend a lot of time cruising the web, and I see the same minor but irritating problems popping up again and again. So I thought it might be … Continue reading

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Roundtable, reviews, retrospectives

Esther Keller hosts our latest roundtable, on age-appropriateness of comics, at Good Comics for Kids—and yes, the Dragonball thing does come up. And Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s all-ages comics and manga. Lori Henderson looks at the … Continue reading

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What's the frequency, Naoki?

Gottsu-Iiyan argues strongly that the weekly format is hurting manga at The Eastern Edge. David Brothers picks out seven things he liked about the latest volume of Yotsuba&! at 4thletter! David Welsh checks out the manga in the latest Previews, … Continue reading

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