Yearly Archives: 2007

Wired covers manga

Wired magazine hops onto the manga bandwagon with a ten-page, right-to-left manga about the history of our favorite medium, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Atsuhisa Okura, that should render all those Manga 101 articles obsolete. (I’m including the … Continue reading

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Snippets

The MangaCast crew post their picks from this week’s new comics. ICv2 talks to Philip Simon of Dark Horse about transitioning Blade of the Immortal from floppies to trades. Yaoi Suki notes, among other news, that Blu is raising the … Continue reading

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Hot properties

Apparently this Naruto thing is going pretty well: All three of the October volumes are on the USA Today bestseller list once again, with vol. 21 at number 39 (up from 69 last week), vol. 20 at number 54 (up … Continue reading

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Review: With the Light

With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, vol. 1 By Keiko Tobe Rated All Ages Yen Press, $14.99 Japan may have manga for every topic, as we are so often told, but the range of titles translated into English is … Continue reading

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Wednesday quick links

I didn’t realize Publishers Weekly did alternate covers, but this week there seem to be two, and Naruto is the cover boy on one of them. The other has a Bible, and inside is this cover story about new ways … Continue reading

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Tuesday early roundup

Comicsnob Matt Blind posts this week’s manga watch list. At the MangaCast, Ed Chavez posts an overview of Morning magazine and discusses a couple of the stories it carries. He also links to some fresh previews. Yaoi Suki presents part … Continue reading

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