Category Archives: Mangablog

Short and sweet

Over at Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Kai-Ming Cha chats with Vampire Hunter D creator Yoshitaka Amano. And vol. 31 of Naruto tops the October best-sellers list. David Welsh picks the best of this week’s new releases at Precocious Curmudgeon. Ed … Continue reading

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CMX chat, more real girls, and Jason Thompson's manga cameo

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit down before you start reading the Manga Recon roundtable on CMX. It’s an in-depth look at their manga line and marketing by a group of mangaholics with widely varying tastes. CMX isn’t … Continue reading

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Yaoi, yaoi, yuri, more yaoi

Gia interviews Thuy Duong, the president of the new manga kid on the blog, Yaoi Generation. And she has a quick summary of Yaoi-Con for those who don’t have a lot of time to spend reading the news. The Boys … Continue reading

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PR: New titles from Go! Comi

Go! Comi tends to go with what’s familiar; if they pick up one series by a manga-ka, they will probably publish more. So it’s not too much of a surprise that they would pick up two more series from Ryo … Continue reading

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PR: Ponent Mon at SPX

Small Press Expo takes place this weekend in Bethesda, Maryland, and as if there weren’t enough good reasons to go, here’s another: Stephen Robson, the genial editor-in-chief of Fanfare/Ponent Mon, will be there. And he will be raffling off a … Continue reading

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What's going on at Digital?

What’s going on at Digital Manga? Deb Aoki talks to DMP’s Michelle Mauk about recent staff and schedule cuts. Mauk confirmed that two production staffers were laid off, another employee “was transitioned to contractor status,” and two more (including the … Continue reading

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