Monthly Archives: January 2012

Here’s the article you should be reading today, but set aside a bit of time, as it’s long: Ryan Holmberg’s fascinating piece on Akahon manga, the cheap precursors of today’s comics. I joined my new Manga Bookshelf colleagues yesterday for … Continue reading →

Lissa Pattillo takes a look through the manga listings in the January Previews. The Manga Village team examines the past week’s new manga releases, and at Good Comics for Kids, Lori Henderson has the list of the latest all-ages comics … Continue reading →

Over at MTV Geek, I looked at the evolution of digital manga in 2011 and picked my favorites from this week’s new releases. At Robot 6, I did a rough tally of responses to a Tokyopop Facebook post and concluded … Continue reading →

Today’s big story is the loss of another manga publisher: Bandai Entertainment, which is chiefly known for its anime but also put out a small but solid line of manga, will stop releasing new material as of February. Check ANN … Continue reading →

Lissa Pattillo ticks off her favorite manga of 2011 in a number of different categories. Alex Hoffman rounds up the manga news highlights of the year (as well as the Alex Hoffman news highlights—spoiler: He got a degree and got … Continue reading →

Happy new year! If you think things look a little different around here, you’re right: MangaBlog is now part of the Manga Bookshelf family of blogs, meaning I will be sharing internet space with my favorite manga bloggers—Kate Dacey, Sean … Continue reading →