Yearly Archives: 2007

After the cut: MangaBlog reader Ceena e-mailed me from Japan with this info about Kodansha’s international manga competition. So sharpen up your pencils/steel nibs/styluses and get to work! I have added Ceena’s e-mail at the end of the press release … Continue reading →

Self-promotion first: My latest web manga column, “Small Packages,” is up at Comixpedia. Super-librarian Robin Brenner files two reports from NYCC, one professional, the other personal. Via Deutsche Mangaka, the artists for round two of Carlsen Chibi have been announced. … Continue reading →

Chris Mautner has already made the Newsarama Blog much more interesting to us non-Marvel-and-DC types. Now he redeems the newspaper manga-101 genre as well with a well researched and well written primer on yaoi. If that whetted your appetite, registration … Continue reading →

Two years ago today, my husband showed me how to use WordPress and turned me loose with a blog of my own. Nothing has been the same since. MangaBlog was originally a sideline for what was supposed to be a … Continue reading →

Everyone else has been talking about it, but Kurt Hassler is doing it: Hassler told me today that Yen Press is planning to publish a manga anthology, probably beginning in 2008. The format: black and white, chapters of 6 to … Continue reading →

I realize some people are sick to death of NYCC, so I’m gathering these links into a separate post. You can listen to the audio of the Viz panel, which was pretty entertaining, at MangaCast. Christopher Butcher completes his reflections … Continue reading →