Yearly Archives: 2009

Doraemon, Dragon Ball, and Domu

Lori Henderson posts another excellent manga news roundup at Manga Xanadu, covering the Dragon Ball incident, a fascinating Twitter conversation, and more. She also reminds readers to comment on their favorite titles at Sigikki if they want them to see … Continue reading

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Takahashi interviewed, Dragon Ball books pulled

The Viz folks have a Q&A with Rumiko Takahashi on The Rumic World, the site that hosts her manga Rin-ne. It’s about as informative as every other interview with a manga creator, which is to say, not very. All the … Continue reading

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Urasawa, civic life, and manga recommendations

First things first: Head over to The Eastern Edge, where gottsu-iiyan has translated an interview with Naoki Urasawa about how he makes his comics. Last week was a bit of a blur, so I don’t remember if I linked to … Continue reading

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New shoujo mag in the works

Deb Aoki talks to Garrett Boast, the founder of ShojoBerry, a new manga magazine that is still in the works. Here’s a blog title I wish I’d snapped up first: Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s NANA. Check out the first (and … Continue reading

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New manga and old numbers

David Welsh, Deb Aoki, and Brad Rice look over this week’s new releases. ICv2 has the direct market graphic novel chart for September, and Matt Blind posts the online sales manga chart from the week ending July 26. Viz’s offices … Continue reading

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Yaoi, cats, and conventions

The Comics Village team picks the best of this week’s new releases. At ANN, Evan Miller talks to artist Bettina Kurkoski of My Cat Loki and Warriors fame. Lori Henderson turns out another excellent and thorough look at the week’s … Continue reading

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