Monthly Archives: July 2009

The New York Times Graphic Books best-seller list is up, and the manga are an interestingly mixed bag: Naruto, Fruits Basket, Negima, Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark-Hunters, Kitchen Princess, Junjo Romantica. Junjo Romantica! Yes, yaoi hits the best-seller list for, I believe, … Continue reading →

ICv2 has a bit more on Yen Press’s Twilight manga, including speculation that it could create a “halo effect” that would boost their other books. Yen Plus Info, Melinda Beasi, and Gia Manry, and the ANN commenters react, and Otaku … Continue reading →

We have all been enjoying Children of the Sea for over a month now, but it turns out that was just the appetizer. Now Viz is rolling out the rest of its SIGIKKI webcomics site, with chapters of six new … Continue reading →

It’s official: Yen Press will be publishing a Twilight manga. This isn’t entirely unexpected—the Twilight novels are published by Yen’s sister company Little Brown and Company (both are owned by Hachette), and the idea came up a lot at NYCC. … Continue reading →

My Unbound column at Robot 6 this week is an interview with Gina Biggs, who draws the unabashedly girly Red String, which was published for a while by Manly Manga for Manly Men (TM) publisher Dark Horse. David Welsh takes … Continue reading →

The headline says it all. Lee and Takei are collaborating on the Ultimo manga, which is now running in both the U.S. and Japan. If you’re going to SDCC, I would recommend checking out this panel; I saw these two … Continue reading →