Yearly Archives: 2009

If you missed Newsflash: Teen Girls Read Manga!, the panel that Robin Brenner moderated with me, Kate Dacey, and Trisha Narwani at NYCC, be sure to catch Rocco Staino’s writeup at School Library Journal. ICv2 has the BookScan top 20 … Continue reading →

Today is MangaBlog’s fourth birthday! Thank you to everyone who reads, links, and comments; you are the ones who keep it interesting! David Welsh takes a look at this week’s new comics at Precocious Curmudgeon. At The Eastern Edge, Gottsu-Iiyan … Continue reading →

God Len posts this week’s new releases at Japanator. Deb Aoki was at Wondercon this weekend, and she reports that sales were robust but manga and anime were hard to find, although Viz did have an exhibit on the con … Continue reading →

The Del Rey/Marvel manga/superhero crossovers have the Manga Villagers talking among themselves, and they have a fine roundtable up about comics, manga, and whether the twain shall ever meet. At Okazu, Erica Friedman has some thoughts on fans, fandom, and … Continue reading →

The Manga Recon folks have an interesting roundtable up on the topic of digital comics. Will iPods, Kindles, and the internet replace dead-tree comics someday? Read on for some interesting insights. Ed lists the manga from the March Previews (shipping … Continue reading →

For those who thought the Diamond changes were someone else’s problem, here’s some news: Adam Arnold of Seven Seas tells me that vol. 3 of Hayate X Blade and vol. 5 of Tetragrammaton Labyrinth didn’t make the new order minimums … Continue reading →