Category Archives: Mangablog

News from New York and parts beyond

NYCC coverage is pouring in from all over. If you’re thinking of going, check out Blog@Newsarama’s suggestions for manga and anime fans and Deb Aoki’s more exhaustive listing of Friday’s highlights. The MangaCast team checks out this week’s new manga, … Continue reading

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Yen Press lands Haruhi

New York Comic-Con begins today, so of course the manga news started pouring out yesterday, when all us bloggers were either in transit or attending the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference at the Javits Center, where internet access is more precious … Continue reading

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Crayon Shinchan, translating yuri, and the delights of Sakura-con

In this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week, I talk to Asako Suzuki and Jim Chadwick of CMX about the return of Crayon Shinchan. David Welsh takes a short look at a short list of new manga for this week. Erica … Continue reading

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Stan Lee, manga sisters, and more

The Otaku USA podcast features an interview with Stan Lee about ULTIMO, which he is working on with Shaman King mangaka Hiroyuki Takei. The Everett (Washington) Herald profiles two manga-making sisters, Danielle and Nicole Pelham, creators of As Told By, … Continue reading

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Eisner nominations are up

And you can read all of them at The Beat, but this is MangaBlog so let’s see how manga fared this year. Pretty well, as it turns out. Last year’s nominations were pretty manga-friendly, but this year’s are even more … Continue reading

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Announcement: A blog is born

Recently, I became aware of a hole in the blogosphere: Nobody seemed to be blogging regularly about children’s comics. I mentioned this to a couple of like-minded folks, and the next thing I knew, Word Balloons was born. Unlike MangaBlog, … Continue reading

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