Yearly Archives: 2009

Cover controversy, new blog finds, and other choice tidbits

David Welsh picks the best of this week’s new releases at Precocious Curmudgeon. A new volume of Emma makes the week seem brighter already. Matt Blind posts the top 250 volumes and top 100 series for February at ComiPress. Yamila … Continue reading

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Women in comics, new (?) CMX titles, and more

Japanator has this week’s new releases. ANN’s women’s roundtable invites artist Barbara Guttman to join in a discussion of women in comics, covering both Western comics and manga. Interesting stuff. Lissa Pattillo rounds up the latest new title announcements and … Continue reading

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Monday morning roundup

The Star of Malaysia has a great interview with anime and manga expert Helen McCarthy, along with a sidebar on the British otaku scene. GhibliWorld has an interview with Viz editor Nick Mamatas about the upcoming Engish edition of Shuppatsu … Continue reading

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Faeries, Lone Wolf and Cub, and mangaka schedules

At Manga Punk, David Doub talks to Alison Acton, the artist for Tokyopop’s adaptation of The Faerie Path. Check this out: The blog Satisfactory Comics has done a whole month of Lone Wolf and Cub posts! (Hat tip: Derik Badman) … Continue reading

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Oh, NYT, will you ever learn?

The big news of the day is that the New York Times has launched not one, but three “graphic books” best-seller lists. “Graphic books”? My guess is that there was a big debate down on the cube farm about whether … Continue reading

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Netcomics goes yaoi with new est em, four others

Netcomics started out with some light manhwa titles, including some BL, and has gotten more diverse as time goes on. They are currently carrying global manga from Yaoi Press as well as Japanese teen-love manga from LuvLuv and some American … Continue reading

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