Monthly Archives: June 2006

You have to register to get it, but The Japan Times Online has a great story on manga by non-Japanese creators. They’ve noticed! The story is quite long and has great illustrations of work by Svetlana Chmakova, Frederic Bollet, and … Continue reading →

In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh interviews Yumi Hoashi, the EIC and VP of Magazines for Viz. There’s lots of talk about branding and what to expect next in Shoujo Beat, and I thought this was interesting: According to … Continue reading →

I don’t usually link to scanlations, but this is something completely different: A manga that explains why human-rights laws are a bad idea. As the blogger who translated and posted it notes, this comic is so bad it’s almost counter-propaganda. … Continue reading →

We are nothing if not eclectic here at MangaBlog. The LeRoy (New York) Pennysaver reports that Elizabeth Kovach, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, received a Ralph P. Kepner Memorial Scholarship “Excellence” Award from the Rochester Chapter of the … Continue reading →

In this week’s Drawn & Quartered column from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wilma Jandoc and Jason Yadao takes a look at ADV, a company that is becoming notorious for never finishing a series. They crunch the numbers: Analysis of an animeondvd.com … Continue reading →

A blogger from Dublin named Katherine has some interesting reflections on yaoi. Katherine is recovering from a recent yaoi binge, and after reading so much of it, she really saw the conventions of the genre, such as the fact that … Continue reading →