Yearly Archives: 2007

Top manga for July (direct market)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The July direct market sales numbers are out, reflecting Diamond’s sales to comics stores. ICv2 reports that sales of graphic novels were flat in July, but they’re not too worried about a single month. Manga did relatively well in their … Continue reading →

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CMX talk, Naruto, and more

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Some good reading to start your day: In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh interviews Jim Chadwick and Asako Suzuki, who are putting together a very nice and somewhat underrated line of manga at CMX. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind posts … Continue reading →

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Monday quick links

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The Weekly Recon, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei’s look at this week’s new manga and mini-reviews of recent releases, is up at PopCultureShock. The Plymouth, Massachusetts, paper interviews My Cat Loki artist Bettina Kurkoski. Adam Stephanides writes about a tricky translation issue in … Continue reading →

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Review: E’S, vols. 1-2

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

E’S, vols. 1 and 2 By Satol Yuiga Rated 16+ Broccoli, $9.99 E’S is a stylish sci-fi manga along the lines of another Broccoli title, Kamui, but a lot more readable. By “sci-fi” I mean that it’s set in some … Continue reading →

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Friday short stack

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Shaenon Garrity’s latest Overlooked Manga Festival features Fumi Yoshinaga’s Flower of Life. After almost three years, ADV Manga finally updated their website. The Mainichi Daily News has a brief article on Comiket. (Via ComiPress.) Translator Tomo Kimura points out a … Continue reading →

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Charts-and-more

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

We have three manga earning spots on this week’s USA Today Top 150 best-sellers: vol. 17 of Fruits Basket debuts at number 99, vol. 20 of Bleach slips from 85 to 140, and vol. 14 of Fullmetal Alchemist checks in … Continue reading →

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