Yearly Archives: 2007

In this week’s Overlooked Manga Festival, Shaenon Garrity looks at Moon Child, “a rad manga that also happens to be batshit insane.” John Jakala has some brief, entertaining comments on recent manga at Sporadic Sequential. Manganews reviewer Ishaan interviews Tokyopop’s … Continue reading →

Read on for not one but two press releases from Broccoli Books, the first detailing the launch today of the new website for Boysenberry Books, their BL line, and the second announcing their newest title, Cigarette Kisses, by Nase Yamato. … Continue reading →

Not manga, but well worth a read for anyone trying to make money in a creative endeavor: Dave Roman’s Advice on building a career as a freelance artist and/or paid cartoonist. His pithiest piece of advice—”Don’t be a jerk”—is already … Continue reading →

Happy blogiversary to to Matthew Brady, who has been blogging for a year at Warren Peace Sings the Blues. Matt covers a lot of manga, and I really enjoy his reviews of individual issues of Shojo Beat. I’m looking forward … Continue reading →

The Ninja Consultant has posted a podcast of Jason Thompson’s MangaNext panel. David Welsh checks out this week’s new comics. I’m a bit late with this, I guess, but Publishers Weekly listed their best books of 2007 last week, and … Continue reading →

A number of universal themes crop up in this article about kids and reading from the Shanghai Daily News, including this anecdote, which gave me a chuckle: “I do a lot of reading outside school and my favorites include classics … Continue reading →