Yearly Archives: 2008

Undertown is the latest Tokyopop global manga to be morphed into a newspaper strip. ICv2, which mistakenly calls it “Uglytown” (Freudian slip?) notes that it was also picked up by Scholastic. It’s an Overlooked Manga Festival Special Event: Shaenon Garrity … Continue reading →

Viz gets on the omnibus bus in a big way. Vizbig editions have a slightly larger trim size than standard manga and put three of the original volumes together in a single book, together with bonus content like color pages. … Continue reading →

Same Hat! Same Hat!! has a comprehensive roundup of 2007, including their top ten, as well as a look forward at the year to come. David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga and decides it’s a pretty good week … Continue reading →

The year-end roundups continue, and manga is getting some love on the general-comics lists. At PLAYBACK:stl, Jason Green includes Sugar Sugar Rune and Adam Warren’s Empowered in his top ten. Dick Hyacinth has a cascading series of lists that includes … Continue reading →

Check out this week’s USA Today best-seller list, for the week ending December 30 (number in parentheses is last week’s rank): 78. Naruto, vol. 27 (135) 89. Naruto, vol. 26 (228) 96. Warriors: Warrior’s Refuge (0) 113. Naruto, vol. 25 … Continue reading →

Although the best-of lists started coming out months ago, people are now beginning to summarize 2007 in earnest. Here’s what I found in the mangaverse. Kai-Ming Cha lists the ten best manga of 2007. Topping the list: Tekkonkinkreet, which also … Continue reading →