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PR: Comic AG goes digital

I’m not including any art with this post, and the press release below the cut is totally SFW, so go ahead and read it, because it’s wicked funny. And thanks for the shout-out to us long-suffering Mac users, Simon! COMIC … Continue reading

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Monday quick links

Rod McKie takes a hard-boiled look at Billy Bat. It’s funny and he throws in lots of scans. At Comics212, Christopher Butcher wonders what it means that Yen Press was folded into sci-fi imprint Orbit but notes that the Haruhi … Continue reading

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More on free Morning Two

We mentioned earlier that the manga magazine Morning Two will be offering three issues online for free. It’s only in Japanese, but it gives overseas readers the opportunity to take a look at some ground-breaking manga for free. Yukari Shiina … Continue reading

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Wielding the AX

The big news of the day for Serious Manga Readers is that Top Shelf will be publishing AX, the alternative manga anthology. Same Hat has the details, along with a cover of the sampler they will be handing out at … Continue reading

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PR: Yen Press goes into Orbit

It looks like there is some consolidation going on down at Hachette Book Group, where two newish imprints, Yen Press and the sci-fi/fantasy line Orbit, are being combined into a single division, to be known as Orbit. I don’t understand … Continue reading

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Firefighters, serial killers, and goblins, oh my!

David Welsh fights deja vu while looking over this week’s new manga, but he manages to come up with a recommendation: Solanin, which sounds like a strong pick. And at Sporadic Sequential, John Jakala is pleased to discover another firefighter … Continue reading

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