Monthly Archives: July 2006

Eric Wight, the creator of the newly announced Tokyopop title My Dead Girlfriend, is a different sort of TV cartoonist: he draws the comics supposedly done by a character in The O.C., and he also did a mock 1941 comic … Continue reading →

Yes, the latest edition of MangaBlogCast is now available at MangaCast for your listening pleasure. This week’s edition includes all the latest news and a commentary on shoujo manga by yours truly. Here are the links for this edition: Rurouni … Continue reading →

This is a big year for manga: as sales continue to increase, the manga creep brings in older and younger readers, and Merriam-Webster sees fit to include the word “manga” in the dictionary, we are also seeing manga starting to … Continue reading →

The new PW Comics Week is up, with a review of Abandon the Old in Tokyo, the latest from manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi of The Push Man fame; an interview with Bettina Kurkoski, whose global manga Loki will be released soon … Continue reading →

At Bento Physics, Jamila starts off their promised series on feminism in shoujo manga by analyzing Ai Yazawa’s Nana. She defines the problem beautifully: There are those who choose to interpret the soft-spoken heroine as an exemplifier of what they … Continue reading →

At MangaCast, my partner-in-podcast Jack Tse has a special Maki Side Dish up: Jack’s MangaCast Anniversary Top 10. And Pata points us to a a set of five videos of Osamu Tezuka himself. They’re YouTube videos, so the quality is … Continue reading →