Monthly Archives: October 2005

We’ll pardon the headline–Demand for anime, manga has libraries wide-eyed–because this article from the Daily Breeze (“LAX to L.A. Harbor”) has some interesting insight into the thought process behind buying manga for libraries. Seems manga has been in short supply … Continue reading →

Christopher Butcher at Comics.212.net has lists of the 10 most popular manga and the “The 10 Great Manga They Don’t Want You To Read.” Five of the manga on the first list are read in my house: Fruits Basket, Rurouni … Continue reading →

Goodnow (see previous post) has a second article about Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai that’s also worth a read. Sakai doesn’t regard Usagi Yojimbo as manga, she writes, but as more of an American-style comic about a Japanese subject. What’s … Continue reading →

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer starts the week with a nice article on graphic novels for kids that turns the usual cliches on their heads. Far from repeating the hoary cliche that “comics aren’t just for kids anymore,” writer Cecelia Goodnow notes … Continue reading →