Yearly Archives: 2010

What’s up at Viz?

Lori Henderson has this week’s all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids. Apparently the Viz folks were dropping some hints on Twitter that big changes are afoot, and Lissa Pattillo sums up the frenzy of speculation that followed; … Continue reading

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Catch the GLBTQ panel, even if you missed it

Deb Aoki posts a transcript of the Gay for You: Yuri & Yaoi Manga for GLBT Readers panel, which was definitely one of the best at NYCC. Moderated by Robin Brenner, and starring Chris Butcher, Scott Robins, Alex Woolfson, Leyla … Continue reading

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Boys over propaganda

Simon & Schuster, which distributes Viz manga, is listing Kazue Katō’s manga Blue Exorcist (Ao no Exorcist) with an April release date. Johanna Draper Carlson takes an advance look at the manga that are due out in December. And Melinda … Continue reading

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Let the computer do it for you

Patrick Macias writes about a new computerized manga creation system that is causing great excitement in Japan. Lori Henderson sums up this week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman posts the latest edition of Yuri Network News at … Continue reading

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No longer licensed

Oops! Vertical, Inc., announced at NYCC/NYAF that it had the license for Usumaru Furuya’s No Longer Human, but the company seems to have jumped the gun a bit: Due to a communication error between the company’s New York and Tokyo … Continue reading

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I found Jesus… in a manga

Jason Thompson devotes his entire House of 1000 Manga column this week to manga about Jesus. Gottsu-Iiyan posts the last part of his translation of the conversation between Eiichiro Oda (One Piece) and Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond, Slam Dunk). Kate Dacey, … Continue reading

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