Category Archives: Mangablog

Pictures and conversations

The Manga Moveable Feast keeps on rollin’ with reviews of Keiko Takemiya’s To Terra; Kate Dacey rounds up all the links at The Manga Critic. A host of bloggers join Melinda Beasi for the Banana Fish Roundtable, this time concentrating … Continue reading

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Pushback on pushback

You know, there is a section of the blogsophere where DC Comics has become known chiefly as the company that shut down CMX. If you’re wondering why everyone is so bummed about this, check out Kate Dacey’s roundup of their … Continue reading

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Translation talk, Tamai, and To Terra

The past couple of weeks have been tough ones for the manga world, with the disappearance of Go! Comi, the summary execution of CMX, and the staff cuts from Viz. But Matt Blind looks at the history of manga sales … Continue reading

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Pirates and pundits

Wow, the CMX shutdown really touched a nerve, much more so than the other manga publishers that we have lost over the years. Heidi Macdonald gathers up the wrath in a good roundup post at The Beat, and as always, … Continue reading

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Aftermath

At this point, there have been so many reactions to the shutdown of CMX that rather than rounding up the comments, I’ll just round up the roundups: I posted on the reactions at Robot 6, and the Good Comics for … Continue reading

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Breaking: DC to shut down CMX

Well, this is sad news: CMX Manga, the plucky little manga division of DC Comics that put out some nice little series but always seemed to fly under the radar, will be shutting down as of July 1. Here’s the … Continue reading

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