Category Archives: Mangablog

Kai-Ming Cha writes about No Starch Press’s manga guides to subjects like calculus and statistics at PWCW, which also features a review of Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto. The big news of the day for BL fans is that Deux Press has … Continue reading →

The MangaCast crew makes their picks from this week’s new releases. Gia and Maxwell of Anime Vice get a guided tour of the Viz offices. Also from AV: Gia reports that Amazon.jp will stop carrying lolicon and other potentially controversial … Continue reading →

ICv2 reports that Bookscan’s graphic novel sales numbers were almost 15% lower this Thanksgiving weekend than in 2007. However, this tracks books, not dollars; non-manga trade paperbacks, which are more expensive than manga, have been doing better on the charts, … Continue reading →

Lori Henderson discusses why Yen Press doesn’t sell back issues of Yen+ magazine at Manga Xanadu. This article from The Independent does state the obvious (Manga is popular! It outsells The Beano!), but it is a nice overview of the … Continue reading →

You may remember that we ran a preview of Tokyopop’s upcoming manhua Orange a few days ago; now I have an interview with the editor of their world graphic novel series, Bryce Coleman, up at Good Comics for Kids. The … Continue reading →

ICv2 lists the top 20 graphic novels for November. This list comes from Bookscan, so it reflects sales in bookstores, not comics shops, so it’s surprising to see that only 12 of the slots are filled by manga. On the … Continue reading →