Monthly Archives: March 2006

The Dark Horse website has an interview with legendary manga creator Kazuo Koike, author of Lone Wolf and Cub and many other classic manga. The introduction by Carl Horn is an essay in itself on the tension between commerce and … Continue reading →

PW Comics Week has yet another interview with Fred Gallagher on the Megatokyo move from Dark Horse to CMX. Because webcomics are the talk of the blogosphere these days, I was interested in Gallagher’s take on why people would pay … Continue reading →

Jamie Coville has a nice interview with Rivkah that covers lots of ground, from technique to the Big Questions of Life. Here she is on OEL manga: I actually don’t think we’re competing against the Japanese comics on the shelves. … Continue reading →

The keen-eyed folks at Anime On DVD have spotted the latest additions to the Go!Comi line: Night of the Beasts, by Chika Siomi, and Afterschool Nightmare, by Setona Mizushiro. Check out the AoD blog for confirmations and comments by Jake … Continue reading →

The blogs are still abuzz about the comment by 4Kids CEO Al Kahn that kids in the U.S. don’t read. (Audio of the panel discussion is available at MangaCast.) David Taylor at Love Manga was wondering if anyone had statistics. … Continue reading →

Corruption of the innocent? Six junior-high-school boys were arrested in Tokyo for stealing about 400 comic books from bookstores. “I wanted to read popular comic books and stole them. I sold some of the books to friends because I wanted … Continue reading →