Category Archives: Mangablog

Rob’s Comic Weblog, a new blog that focuses on “Comics Structuralism, Visual Theory, Visual Culture, and Funnybooks,” has an interesting post on what has gone wrong in the manga business, including comments on individual companies and the OEL debate. Ed … Continue reading →

Just a quick note to say that Tokyopop is putting some volumes of manga online; I posted the URLs and a brief comment from marketing director Marco Pavia at Digital Strips.

When all the changes were going on at Tokyopop, word leaked out that Peach Fuzz creator Lindsay Cibos was drawing Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which was always drawn as well as written by Tania del Rio. Johanna Draper Carlson follows … Continue reading →

According to editor A. Neculai (quoted at Boys Next Door) and writer Tina Anderson, who was a contributor, the global BL anthology Rush is looking for a new publisher. The anthology was originally published by DramaQueen, but little has been … Continue reading →

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings, John Thomas reminds us, and he takes a look at two manga that deal with that event and its aftermath: Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms and Barefoot Gen. … Continue reading →

I’m starting with this just because the art is so pretty: The Malaysian blog Voize interviews Kathryn Chong, whose manga Puppet Eyes was first runner-up in the latest Morning International Manga Competition. (Image from Chong’s deviantART page; click on it … Continue reading →