Monthly Archives: July 2008

For those of you who don’t want to miss a single detail, ComiPress is once again publishing exhaustive lists of SDCC manga posts and new license announcements. Yen Press began their panel by showing off the newly released Yen Plus … Continue reading →

The Eisner Awards were presented last night at SDCC, and despite a number of nominations in a variety of categories, the only manga to win an award was in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan category, which was obviously … Continue reading →

SDCC got under way for real yesterday, but so far the manga news is just trickling in. The PWCW folks file a first-day roundup that includes news of two new CMX titles: Genghis Kahn, an adaptation of the anime, and … Continue reading →

I just got my review copies from Tokyopop, and this month’s batch seems to have a lot of thicker volumes than usual, with prices all over the map. Vol. 1 of Jyu-oh-sei ($14.99), vol. 1 of Jade of Bango ($12.99), … Continue reading →

First prize for the most overheated first sentence in a comics-related press release goes to whoever wrote this: Global manga giants TOKYOPOP and GENTOSHA COMICS have entered into a worldwide partnership to advance the cause of the manga revolution. Especially … Continue reading →

Seven Seas has been doing webcomics since their inception, but now they’re trying a different format: Veteran creators and manga adaptors Nunzio DeFillipis and Christina Weir are writing a new comic, The Ninja Diaries, which will run in the free … Continue reading →