Yearly Archives: 2010

Francis Metcalfe, known to all of us as Tiamat’s Disciple, died yesterday after a long battle with cancer. Apparently he was a fan right up to the end; he posted his last tweet on May 31: did finish macross frontier … Continue reading →

Sad news in the blogosphere: Francis, who blogged as Tiamat’s Disciple at the blog Tiamat’s Manga Reviews, has died of prostate cancer. Sunday Comics Debt takes a look at some of the problems with CMX, including a possible lack of … Continue reading →

Vol. 4 of Black Bird was the top-selling graphic novel in bookstores last month, according to BookScan, and 14 of the top 20 were manga. David Welsh finds a few manga of interest in this week’s new releases. Johanna Draper … Continue reading →

Manga expert Jason Thompson has been looking at manga on digital devices, and he concludes that Apple products are not the way of the future because of the Apple store’s rigid content standards, which means manga must be Bowdlerized to … Continue reading →

At Reverse Thieves, Hisui and Narutaki take a look at the changes in the manga market and point to some possible factors, including the fact that publishing in general has been hit by the recession. And translator William Flanagan nails … Continue reading →