Category Archives: Mangablog

PR: Viz launches SIGIKKI website

We have all been enjoying Children of the Sea for over a month now, but it turns out that was just the appetizer. Now Viz is rolling out the rest of its SIGIKKI webcomics site, with chapters of six new … Continue reading

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Yen to publish Twilight manga

It’s official: Yen Press will be publishing a Twilight manga. This isn’t entirely unexpected—the Twilight novels are published by Yen’s sister company Little Brown and Company (both are owned by Hachette), and the idea came up a lot at NYCC. … Continue reading

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Royalty, romance, and schmaltz

My Unbound column at Robot 6 this week is an interview with Gina Biggs, who draws the unabashedly girly Red String, which was published for a while by Manly Manga for Manly Men (TM) publisher Dark Horse. David Welsh takes … Continue reading

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PR: Viz hosts Stan Lee and Hiroyuki Takei at SDCC

The headline says it all. Lee and Takei are collaborating on the Ultimo manga, which is now running in both the U.S. and Japan. If you’re going to SDCC, I would recommend checking out this panel; I saw these two … Continue reading

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Global manga realities

Kate Dacey of The Manga Critic and Red Baylon of Japanator check out this week’s new releases. ANN has the latest lineup of new titles from 801 Media and JunĂ© Manga. Bamboo and Sara talk to global manga artists Lanny … Continue reading

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PR: Digital Manga goes digital

DMP is joining the stampede of publishers to digital media, with iPhone and Kindle versions of selected June and DMP titles. Full press release, with lots of links, below, but I want to point something out: Although they mention both … Continue reading

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