Yearly Archives: 2006

Just passing this along from About.com. Fifth Dimension LTD is looking for a manga/anime artist to do pencil work and possibly some inking as well. This is a new comic company with plans to release their first manga in 2007 … Continue reading →

Anime News Network has a peculiar story about Tokyopop edging away from the terms “OEL manga” and “world manga.” Susan Hale of Tokyopop explained that OEL is innapropriate because many of their titles originate from non-anglophone creators, for example Yonen … Continue reading →

I’m still buried under a huge project but hope to be done by the weekend. In the meantime, some fun things have popped up on the web. At Mangacast, Ed and Jarred have posted the latest edition of Manga Curry … Continue reading →

ICv2 wakes us up this morning with the news that Netcomics is branching out into two new genres. Your Lover is a shoujo title about the love affair between French painter Marie Laurencin and poet Guillaume Appolinaire. Lethe is a … Continue reading →

Over at Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh is tallying his purchases for this week. He’d better start taking the bus, because Anime On DVD ferreted out news of whole slew of new titles: From Go!Comi, fourth volumes of Cantarella, Crossroad, and … Continue reading →

ICv2 is bullish on manga. They estimate total retail sales of manga in North America in 2005 as $155 to $180 million, and they also revisited their 2004 estimate of $110 to $140 million and decided the true number was … Continue reading →