Yearly Archives: 2008

I’m going off topic for a brief time because this is so important. As you know, November 4 is Election Day. This year, there will probably be a strong voter suppression effort to keep certain people—college students, people of color, … Continue reading →

Jean-Marie Bouissou has an interesting meditation on why manga became so popular worldwide in this month’s Eurozine. The article draws on Bouissou’s experience of growing up reading BDs—and leaving them behind as he got older, with his sisters abandoning comics … Continue reading →

I’m not including any art with this post, and the press release below the cut is totally SFW, so go ahead and read it, because it’s wicked funny. And thanks for the shout-out to us long-suffering Mac users, Simon! COMIC … Continue reading →

Rod McKie takes a hard-boiled look at Billy Bat. It’s funny and he throws in lots of scans. At Comics212, Christopher Butcher wonders what it means that Yen Press was folded into sci-fi imprint Orbit but notes that the Haruhi … Continue reading →

We mentioned earlier that the manga magazine Morning Two will be offering three issues online for free. It’s only in Japanese, but it gives overseas readers the opportunity to take a look at some ground-breaking manga for free. Yukari Shiina … Continue reading →

The big news of the day for Serious Manga Readers is that Top Shelf will be publishing AX, the alternative manga anthology. Same Hat has the details, along with a cover of the sampler they will be handing out at … Continue reading →