Monthly Archives: June 2006

Moving on to weightier matters, The Visual Linguist has an interesting summary of an article on how kids learn to read manga. The biggest gain in ability seems to occur between kindergarten and fourth grade, which is not too surprising. … Continue reading →

Akadot translates a short interview with a man who dates a fujoshi, a woman who loves yaoi, and blogs about it (in Japanese) at Tonari no 801-chan. Actually, it has a whiff of the fictional about it. It’s like watching … Continue reading →

Naruto, vol. 10, shoots to number 38 on the USA Today top 150, up from 67 last week. Volume 10 of Negima also makes it onto the list, at number 101. Checking the handy database, I note that every volume … Continue reading →

PW Comics Week looks at Yaoi Press, which is producing OEL yaoi manga right here in the USA—in Vegas, in fact. “I have a passion for this genre and I saw that there was currently no large publisher of original … Continue reading →

Back when I was a kid, Archie would go all educational every once in a while with a story that was full of facts; I remember one in particular about sugar that must have been paid for by the Sugar … Continue reading →

Seven Seas has posted an interview with Bill Straus, the writer of the upcoming manga Freerunners. It’s basically a PR piece but that doesn’t mean it can’t be interesting. Freerunning, we are told, “focuses more on artistic movement rather than … Continue reading →