Yearly Archives: 2009

At Icarus Comics, Simon Jones is OK with manga making a small showing in the Eisners—better we should get our own awards, he says. David Welsh agrees with Simon at Precocious Curmudgeon. Lori Henderson lists this week’s all-ages comics and … Continue reading →

Here’s something pretty to get you through hump day: Sho Murase posts some advertising art on her personal blog. Isn’t it lovely? At PWCW, Kate Culkin has a nice article on The Color of Earth, the first volume of a … Continue reading →

The Eisner nominations are out. Time for everyone to start arguing! Manga is pretty sparse among this year’s nominations, and weirdly, none of the titles in the Best Publications for Teens/Tweens is manga. Naoki Urasawa’s Monster gets the nod for … Continue reading →

God Len lists this week’s new releases at Japanator. (Image: Cover of vol. 3 of Astral Project, one of this week’s new manga. David Welsh has more to say about the series in this week’s Flipped column. Do want!) Alex … Continue reading →

Aurora Publishing’s big manga sale will go on until April 30, and they have put up special pages for each of their lines—Aurora, Deux, and LuvLuv—to make life easier. The shipping is reasonable as well. To help with decision-making, here … Continue reading →

Tiamat’s Disciple has some followup questions for Kurt Hassler, including more info on that new edition of Azumanga Daioh that he announced in their previous interview. At The Hooded Utilitarian, Noah Berlatsky contrasts an image from Dokebi Bride with one … Continue reading →