Yearly Archives: 2007

ICv2 has the June sales figures and the top 100 graphic novels from Diamond. The news is good for those who like their comics in big chunks: Graphic novels sales in comic stores grew by 33% in June versus sales … Continue reading →

Yeah, Tokyopop is getting into the anime business, in a very small way, putting short animations on MySpace of four of their titles. I was expecting pan-and-scan, but these are actually fully animated and in color. The four books, all … Continue reading →

Arina Tanemura is the creator of two of Viz’s most popular series, Full Moon and The Gentlemen’s Alliance +, so she’s a natural to be their guest at SDCC. If, like me, you’re not heading west next week, the August … Continue reading →

Fred Gallagher drops in at The Engine to talk about how and why MegaTokyo got picked up by Kodansha. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind looks at online manga sales rankings for this week. LJ’er redplasticglass muses on the recent seinen-josei discussions. … Continue reading →

This week marks the 40th edition of MangaBlogCast, and as a special treat, Ed Chavez himself is hosting this week’s show. Check it out to hear news and commentary about new licenses, seinen sales, and more. Links after the cut. … Continue reading →

OK, I have arrived safely in the outskirts of Chicago and will be blogging from here for a few days. The train trip was great—the scenery was beautiful, the train crew were very nice, the food was good, and we … Continue reading →