Monthly Archives: December 2008

Casey Brienza lists her top ten manga for 2008, plus a bonus light novel! The Manga Recon team lists their favorites of the past year as well. Over at MangaCast, Ed Chavez posts a Japanese list of “amazing” manga. Meanwhile, … Continue reading →

Kai-Ming Cha writes about No Starch Press’s manga guides to subjects like calculus and statistics at PWCW, which also features a review of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto. The big news of the day for BL fans is that Deux Press has … Continue reading →

The MangaCast crew makes their picks from this week’s new releases. Gia and Maxwell of Anime Vice get a guided tour of the Viz offices. Also from AV: Gia reports that Amazon.jp will stop carrying lolicon and other potentially controversial … Continue reading →

ICv2 reports that Bookscan’s graphic novel sales numbers were almost 15% lower this Thanksgiving weekend than in 2007. However, this tracks books, not dollars; non-manga trade paperbacks, which are more expensive than manga, have been doing better on the charts, … Continue reading →

Lori Henderson discusses why Yen Press doesn’t sell back issues of Yen+ magazine at Manga Xanadu. This article from The Independent does state the obvious (Manga is popular! It outsells The Beano!), but it is a nice overview of the … Continue reading →

You may remember that we ran a preview of Tokyopop’s upcoming manhua Orange a few days ago; now I have an interview with the editor of their world graphic novel series, Bryce Coleman, up at Good Comics for Kids. The … Continue reading →