In this week’s Flipped, David Welsh manages to find a few manga he doesn’t like.
At Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon takes a look at the Bookscan graphic novel numbers for mid-May and talks a bit about what the numbers do and don’t tell us. He provides the actual list, which is heavy on the manga—exactly the opposite of Diamond’s graphic novel list—demonstrating once more that bookstores are where people buy manga.
From the German site Animey, here is an interview in English with manga-ka Gosho Aoyama, creator of Detective Conan (link is to a fan site), which Viz retitled Case Closed. (Via Ikimashou.)
Am I the only one who thinks that a Rurouni Kenshin plushie is just plain wrong? How can he kick butt if he’s all soft ‘n’ fuzzy?
The Duluth libraries are ready for summer with plenty of manga for the kids.
“You could put the phone book in manga and it would be a bestseller,” Richgruber said. “They are flying off the shelves.”
