Yearly Archives: 2010

Quick roundup

At Rocket Bomber, Matt Blind has the most recent manga sales charts (reflecting online sales) and he also takes a closer look at how Yen Press is doing. Amazon has listed Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, as a 2011 … Continue reading

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New manga, manga news, and more

The big news of the weekend is that Tokyopop is releasing Hetalia: Axis Powers digitally, via Zinio, before the print edition comes out—and at a lower price ($5.99) than the print version ($12.99). At All About Manga, freelance editor Daniella … Continue reading

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Weekend reading

Jason Thompson presents another strange vintage manga, Kazan, in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN. Graphic Novel Reporter talks to AX editor Sean Michael Wilson about the new alt-manga anthology. At iFanboy, Molly McIsaac presents a starter … Continue reading

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As promised…

Things seem to have gotten kind of quiet over at Del Rey lately; their formerly elegant and useful website has been swallowed up into a generic and dysfunctional Random House/Suvudu site, and a couple of readers have e-mailed me about … Continue reading

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Not dead, just busy

Hey, everyone! I haven’t forgotten about you, but a combination of a busy schedule and energy-sapping sultry weather has thrown me a bit behind on things. Here’s a quick roundup of the bigger news, and I’ll be back tomorrow (I … Continue reading

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More on Yen Plus, classic Shonen Jump, and Japanese newspaper strips

At Robot 6, I talked to Kurt Hassler about the online version of Yen Plus, including what’s going on with the Japanese series that have been AWOL so far. Lori Henderson has the list of last week’s all-ages comics and … Continue reading

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