Category Archives: Mangablog

Monday morning roundup

The Star of Malaysia has a great interview with anime and manga expert Helen McCarthy, along with a sidebar on the British otaku scene. GhibliWorld has an interview with Viz editor Nick Mamatas about the upcoming Engish edition of Shuppatsu … Continue reading

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Faeries, Lone Wolf and Cub, and mangaka schedules

At Manga Punk, David Doub talks to Alison Acton, the artist for Tokyopop’s adaptation of The Faerie Path. Check this out: The blog Satisfactory Comics has done a whole month of Lone Wolf and Cub posts! (Hat tip: Derik Badman) … Continue reading

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Oh, NYT, will you ever learn?

The big news of the day is that the New York Times has launched not one, but three “graphic books” best-seller lists. “Graphic books”? My guess is that there was a big debate down on the cube farm about whether … Continue reading

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Netcomics goes yaoi with new est em, four others

Netcomics started out with some light manhwa titles, including some BL, and has gotten more diverse as time goes on. They are currently carrying global manga from Yaoi Press as well as Japanese teen-love manga from LuvLuv and some American … Continue reading

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Naruto rules the charts… again

If you missed Newsflash: Teen Girls Read Manga!, the panel that Robin Brenner moderated with me, Kate Dacey, and Trisha Narwani at NYCC, be sure to catch Rocco Staino’s writeup at School Library Journal. ICv2 has the BookScan top 20 … Continue reading

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Launching our fifth year!

Today is MangaBlog’s fourth birthday! Thank you to everyone who reads, links, and comments; you are the ones who keep it interesting! David Welsh takes a look at this week’s new comics at Precocious Curmudgeon. At The Eastern Edge, Gottsu-Iiyan … Continue reading

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