Yearly Archives: 2007

We’re part of the buy-nothing-on-Black-Friday brigade: I expect to spend today reading manga, babysitting my nieces and nephew, and grazing on the leftovers. Here’s what I could glean from the internets: It’s Ladies Day at MangaCast, where the girls take … Continue reading →

One of the things I do in real life is administer our city’s charitable fund for families in need. This has been an unusually busy holiday season for us, and I know we’re not unique. So I’d like to like … Continue reading →

It’s not just Yen that’s picking up on interesting titles: Viz announced this week that they will be publishing REAL, by Slam Dunk manga-ka Takehiko Inoue. Somehow a shonen manga about wheelchair basketball seems very logical. Details after the jump. … Continue reading →

Yen Press has been picking up some interesting manga, and it was sort of inevitable that there would be yaoi in the mix. Below is their press release about their first three titles, all by Lily Hoshino—and Kurt Hassler is … Continue reading →

Katherine Dacey-Tsuei kicks off the week with her Weekly Recon, a list of upcoming comics and a handful of brief reviews. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind takes his weekly look at online manga sales, including commentary on some volume 1’s that … Continue reading →

ICv2 does an interesting piece of analysis on Diamond’s October direct market sales: Instead of looking at the top-selling comics and graphic novels, they compare how the books in the middle and bottom of the lists sold compared to those … Continue reading →