Time for manga

Time magazine discovers manga, and aside from missing the fact that boys read manga too, they do OK. Most of the article focuses on the business side, with a digression into the global vs. Japanese discussion.

Love Manga has the press release on the new Star Trek manga.

I’m a day late with this, but Manga Monday at comics-and-more reviewed two new books from Viz, vol. 1 of Saikano and vol. 4 of Monster.

Broccoli Books has posted a new webcomic on its site, a sample of Leave it to Piyoko.

Rivkah has put up part two of her series on panels and pacing.

Last week I snarked on a post by a computer guru named Dave Taylor because he mentioned “big eyes” in an explanation of manga (and because the question he was answering was really naive). Dave read my post and sent me a really nice e-mail asking if I could give a better explanation. This was far more effective than flaming me, because of course I felt like a worm for being snarky about such a nice guy. Anyway, I answered his e-mail and not only did he post my reply on his site, he also fixed me up with a WordPress guru who had some good advice about dealing with comment spam, so it all ended well. Feel free to check out my answer and add your own comments. I’m adding him to the blogroll, under “Good Reads,” because he has a lot of info about blogs and also he actually explained what this “hoodia” stuff is that shows up in a lot of my spam.