Category Archives: Mangablog

Over at Comic Book Resources, Brian Hibbs does his annual reading of the entrails of an owl the BookScan charts and attempts to draw conclusions from what he sees. He admits right off the bat that he’s hampered by the … Continue reading →

The MangaCast team looks over this week’s new releases. I haven’t been following the USA Today booklist like I used to, but it’s worth noting, as ANN did, that all four volumes of Naruto made the top 150 list last … Continue reading →

Sorry about my untimely absence yesterday—I had an unusually busy morning. If you haven’t caught this already on someone else’s blog, I hope you’ll check out my interview with pioneer translator and manga scholar Matt Thorn. That’s him in the … Continue reading →

Lots of questions have popped up about Diamond’s decision to stop carrying over 1,000 Viz items, mostly manga. I pitched a few at Viz spokeswoman Evelyn Dubocq and got some answers: MangaBlog: Are these volumes going out of print? Evelyn … Continue reading →

At Comics212, Christopher Butcher has posted a list of over 1,000 items, all from Viz, that Diamond will no longer be carrying. I have asked the Viz folks for some clarification of what this means from their end, and when … Continue reading →

Here’s your must-read for the weekend: Christoph Mark interviews Naoki Urasawa and his editor, Takashi Nagasaki, about their collaboration on Billy Bat. Great quote: “People often think he’s the pitcher and I’m the catcher, but in our discussions for this … Continue reading →