Monthly Archives: April 2008

New York Comic-Con begins today, so of course the manga news started pouring out yesterday, when all us bloggers were either in transit or attending the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference at the Javits Center, where internet access is more precious … Continue reading →

In this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week, I talk to Asako Suzuki and Jim Chadwick of CMX about the return of Crayon Shinchan. David Welsh takes a short look at a short list of new manga for this week. Erica … Continue reading →

The Otaku USA podcast features an interview with Stan Lee about ULTIMO, which he is working on with Shaman King mangaka Hiroyuki Takei. The Everett (Washington) Herald profiles two manga-making sisters, Danielle and Nicole Pelham, creators of As Told By, … Continue reading →

And you can read all of them at The Beat, but this is MangaBlog so let’s see how manga fared this year. Pretty well, as it turns out. Last year’s nominations were pretty manga-friendly, but this year’s are even more … Continue reading →

Recently, I became aware of a hole in the blogosphere: Nobody seemed to be blogging regularly about children’s comics. I mentioned this to a couple of like-minded folks, and the next thing I knew, Word Balloons was born. Unlike MangaBlog, … Continue reading →

NYCC is coming up this weekend! Who’s going? I’ll be there, covering it for PWCW and MangaBlog and appearing on a panel on kids’ comics on Sunday, and at PopCultureShock, Kate Dacey has a handy list of manga and anime … Continue reading →