Monthly Archives: March 2007

PIKA: Light dawns on Marblehead

Pedro Bouca, who understands the French market better than I do, drops in at the Newsarama blog to explain the significance of Hachette’s purchase of the French manga publisher PIKA: It was the last large independent manga publisher left in … Continue reading

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Thursday news

I still have some NYCC panels to write up, and the posts are trickling in from other sources as well. The Comics Reporter has a long list of links, but I’ll probably post a more manga-centric version at the end … Continue reading

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Missing the paradigm shift

This article on WonderCon does a good job of explaining why most people don’t read superhero comics, but their definition of “comics” as “superhero comics from the Big Two” results in hilarious false generalizations like this: Almost no one talks … Continue reading

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