Monthly Archives: January 2008

In yesterday’s year-in-review piece, Christopher Butcher commented that Yen Press had a “notoriously difficult time” getting licenses and wondered whether With the Light, their manga about autism, had sold well. Yen Press co-publisher Kurt Hassler, no stranger to the internets, … Continue reading →

This just came in as a comment to the last post: Here’s a scoop for you. ADV is telling potential advertisers that their new magazine will be called PIQ (as in “sneak peak” or “pique your interest”). The fact that … Continue reading →

Christopher Butcher has an extended commentary on David Welsh’s roundup of the year in manga at Comics 212. Well worth a read. Tiamat’s Disciple looks at how various publishers fared in 2007 from a UK perspective. Anime on DVD has … Continue reading →

At PWCW, Calvin Reid has the details on the Seven Seas-Tor Books deal, including two new titles coming from Seven Seas: Inukami, a manga, and Kuro Majo-san ga Touru (roughly, Here Comes the Black Witch), a light novel aimed at … Continue reading →

Here’s today’s must-read article: Jeff Vandermeer interviews librarian and uber-manga fan Robin Brenner at Bookslut, then gives her space to list the top manga, not of 2007, but of all time. At the Del Rey blog, Dallas Middaugh lists his … Continue reading →