Category Archives: Mangablog

While we are all busy discussing the latest Fumi Yoshinaga and Naoki Urasawa releases in Viz’s Signature line, they are quietly publishing manga for kids as well. These books may not make as much of a splash with bloggers, but … Continue reading →

The New York Times graphic books best-seller list is up and it’s pretty Viz-a-licious, with the exception of the two volumes of Maximum Ride. At the Good Comics for Kids blog, Peter Gutierrez recommends ten comics that are great for … Continue reading →

Lori Henderson picks the best all ages comics of the week and the quarter at Good Comics for Kids. Martha Cornog and Steve Raiteri include Pluto and Ooku on their list of the best graphic novels of 2009 for Library … Continue reading →

Hmmm…. I wrote this whole post and apparently never hit “Publish.” Must not have had enough coffee yesterday morning! Here’s the roundup, a bit late. I reported on the comics scene at ALA Midwinter in my latest Unbound column at … Continue reading →

The American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) released its 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, along with a pared-down top ten yesterday. Manga Curmudgeon David Welsh breaks it down by publisher. ICv2 posts a three-part interview … Continue reading →

This press release went out earlier today, and one of the things that is catching everyone’s eye is the 350,000-copy first printing, which shows a certain… confidence in the book. By contrast, the first printing of volume 1 of The … Continue reading →