Category Archives: Mangablog

Here’s today’s must-read article: Jeff Vandermeer interviews librarian and uber-manga fan Robin Brenner at Bookslut, then gives her space to list the top manga, not of 2007, but of all time. At the Del Rey blog, Dallas Middaugh lists his … Continue reading →

PopCultureShock has come up with an interesting tool: ComicRankings, which collates comics reviews from around the blogosphere and ranks comics, creators, and publishers accordingly. The top-ranked publisher is Del Rey, followed closely by Viz; Dark Horse is fourth and Tokyopop … Continue reading →

Undertown is the latest Tokyopop global manga to be morphed into a newspaper strip. ICv2, which mistakenly calls it “Uglytown” (Freudian slip?) notes that it was also picked up by Scholastic. It’s an Overlooked Manga Festival Special Event: Shaenon Garrity … Continue reading →

Viz gets on the omnibus bus in a big way. Vizbig editions have a slightly larger trim size than standard manga and put three of the original volumes together in a single book, together with bonus content like color pages. … Continue reading →

Same Hat! Same Hat!! has a comprehensive roundup of 2007, including their top ten, as well as a look forward at the year to come. David Welsh looks at this week’s new manga and decides it’s a pretty good week … Continue reading →

The year-end roundups continue, and manga is getting some love on the general-comics lists. At PLAYBACK:stl, Jason Green includes Sugar Sugar Rune and Adam Warren’s Empowered in his top ten. Dick Hyacinth has a cascading series of lists that includes … Continue reading →