Yearly Archives: 2008

Tania talks, translation tribulations, and fresh manga

Tania del Rio brings us up to date on her work on Sabrina the Teenage Witch and her planned two-volume series for Tokyopop in this interview with Benjamin Ong Pang Kean at Newsarama. New manga! The MangaCast crew sort through … Continue reading

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Digital's eManga: First thoughts

Digital’s eManga.com site is nicely designed, with pleasing pastel tones and not too much clutter, but can it deliver the goods? The site is only in beta right now, so things may change. They are starting off with six yaoi … Continue reading

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PR: Digital goes digital

Digital Manga has jumped headfirst into the web manga world with a new site, emanga.com, that will put entire volumes of manga online. The model looks like it’s similar to Netcomics: readers pay (in points) to read a volume online … Continue reading

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Not dead, only sleeping?

Kai-Ming Cha and Erin Finnegan cover Otakon in this week’s PWCW, and I talk to Tokyopop marketing director Marco Pavia about those cancellation lists that are making the rounds of the internets; Marco says the lists don’t mean anything as … Continue reading

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Quick links

John Jakala muses over which manga have literary qualities; it’s a short list, but he invites suggestions. Japanator has the list of this week’s new releases, both anime and manga, and at Kuriousity, Lissa Pattillo is already looking forward to … Continue reading

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Monday news and reviews

Rob’s Comic Weblog, a new blog that focuses on “Comics Structuralism, Visual Theory, Visual Culture, and Funnybooks,” has an interesting post on what has gone wrong in the manga business, including comments on individual companies and the OEL debate. Ed … Continue reading

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