Yearly Archives: 2009

The results of the third Morning International Manga Competition are up, and the chief judge’s general comments make for fascinating reading. For one thing, they did not choose a second runner-up this year because of the sharp drop-off in quality … Continue reading →

PWCW’s Ada Price has a great article on reading comics on the Kindle. The experience is far from perfect, she reports, but publishing companies are embracing it anyway as a way to dip their toe into the digital ocean. Manga … Continue reading →

God Len has the list of this week’s new releases at Japanator. Danielle Leigh makes her picks from Previews in her latest Manga Before Flowers column at Comics Should Be Good. Aurora Publishing is going the Borders Exclusive route for … Continue reading →

Shaenon Garrity writes about the mainstreaming of comics culture at comiXology. Deb Aoki has some thoughts on the New York Times manga best-seller list at About.com. David Welsh is making a wish list at Precocious Curmudgeon, and it starts with … Continue reading →

This week’s New York Times manga best-seller list is up, and Viz owns it: Seven volumes of Naruto and one each of Bleach, The Gentlemen’s Alliance +, and Black Cat. The USA Today Booklist includes four Narutos and a Bleach … Continue reading →

Lissa Pattillo finds two new listings on RightStuf; one is a BL title, Gay’s Anatomy, from Kitty Media, and the other is The Lizard Prince from CMX. At Anime Vice, Gia wonders whether American comics would do well in manga-style … Continue reading →