Category Archives: Mangablog

Ignatz honors and manly manga

Nominations for the Ignatz Awards, which recognize the best independent comics of the year, have been announced, and there are two manga on the list: Susumu Katsumata’s Red Snow was nominated in the Outstanding Anthology or Collection category, and the … Continue reading

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Crossing over

At About.com, Deb Aoki has a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with Felipe Smith about his inspirations for Peepo Choo and the experience of creating manga for a Japanese magazine. Jason Thompson writes about the Spider-Man manga for the latest edition of … Continue reading

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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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