Monthly Archives: August 2006

This week’s PW Comics Week is up, and DramaQueen takes center stage. It’s a nice, solid article that describes the line, what sets it aside from other publishers, and how the principal, Tran Nguyen, got started in the biz. Although … Continue reading →

ICv2 reports that graphic novel sales were up in July, going up faster than floppies for the first time since last November. They also have the July sales charts, but David Taylor has already manga-ized the numbers at Love Manga. … Continue reading →

At Buzzscope, Tania del Rio gives her take on the new Tokyopop website. Like many of us, she was startled to click on the “manga” button and find fan art, not catalog entries. But she adjusted, and since she wrote … Continue reading →

Newsarama has a rather terse interview with Dave Cheung, creator of Chugworth Academy, which has been picked up as a webcomic and now a print manga by Seven Seas. According to Dave, Chugworth started as hentai but he thought the … Continue reading →

Here’s my next set of brief reviews of Tokyopop’s new August series. These three stories all have something familiar about them, but all are worth a read on their own. These reviews are based on complimentary copies provided by the … Continue reading →

OEL, MIC, M-O-U-S-E… For those who are still wondering what to call non-Japanese manga, there’s an interesting debate going on right now at Wikipedia over whether to retitle their Amerimanga article. For the record, I scoffed at “global manga” but … Continue reading →