Category Archives: Mangablog

Tezuka book in the offing, Chun Li online now

Manga artist Kano Miyamoto (Say Please) will be a guest at Yaoi-Con. The Capcomm folks have posted Street Fighter Legends: Chun Li #1 in its entirety for your online reading pleasure, and the Udon folks have a meaty preview up … Continue reading

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Tokyopop Webinar: The return of Suppli!

The Tokyopop Webinars are a great idea. Not such a great idea: Trying to listen in while babysitting my nieces and nephew. Due to background noise, I missed a lot of the audio for the first part of the presentation, … Continue reading

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Analysis, predictions, and reviews

I wrote about the Vermonia manga series for PWCW this week, and at Robot 6 I took a look at the finalists for the Ignatz awards, which will be voted on and handed out at Small Press Expo later this … Continue reading

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Action and reaction

The capes-and-tights crowd may be busy discussing Disney’s acquisition of Marvel (and making weird parodies and imaginary memos) but on this side of the blogosphere everyone was talking about Kodansha dropping all their licenses with Tokyopop. Here’s reaction from Deb … Continue reading

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Kodansha to let Tokyopop licenses lapse

The Japanese publisher Kodansha has decided to let its licenses with Tokyopop expire, according to Marketing Manager Kasia Piekarz, which means that series in progress will not be completed by Tokyopop and existing volumes will not be reprinted. Accordingly, a … Continue reading

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New manga, news from Deux, the annotated bookshelf

Lori Henderson has a thorough roundup of the week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman checks in with the latest edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu. The Comics Village clan makes their picks from this week’s new … Continue reading

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