Monthly Archives: May 2006

Future stock

Over at Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh is tallying his purchases for this week. He’d better start taking the bus, because Anime On DVD ferreted out news of whole slew of new titles: From Go!Comi, fourth volumes of Cantarella, Crossroad, and … Continue reading

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Manga market booming

ICv2 is bullish on manga. They estimate total retail sales of manga in North America in 2005 as $155 to $180 million, and they also revisited their 2004 estimate of $110 to $140 million and decided the true number was … Continue reading

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Barstow library to display Gravett book

Here’s the latest news from Victorville: The Barstow Community College Library has ordered copies of Paul Gravett’s Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics and will put them on display when they arrive, probably at the end of the month. “Our … Continue reading

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Reading list

Visiting family, big (paying) work project, kids who want to be fed regularly (the nerve!)… and so much going on in the mangaworld! What’s a girl to do? Post the links and leave the hard work up to her readers. … Continue reading

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New comics for May 3

From ComicList, here are the manga appearing in comics stores this week: A. D. VISION Nge Angelic Days Manga, Vol 1, $9.99 Orphen Manga, Vol 5, $9.99 ANTARCTIC PRESS How To Draw Manga The Fred Perry Way DVD DARK HORSE … Continue reading

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Victorville: op-ed reactions

I’m bumping these links up from the comments for those who are following the Victorville manga case. These are three articles that ran on the op-ed page of the Victorville Daily Press on April 23. Dangerous step on Fahrenheit 451 … Continue reading

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