Category Archives: Mangablog

I never read Robot, but it definitely has a following, and people were disappointed when Digital dropped it after volume 3. Now Udon is picking it up, beginning with vol. 4. This is definitely manga for grownups! Read on for … Continue reading →

Yaoi Suki has comprehensive coverage of Yaoicon, with panel reports from all the major publishers (except BeBeautiful, which wasn’t there). If you read yaoi, you need to read Yaoi Suki—Jen and Jordan do a great job of covering the scene, … Continue reading →

New to the blogroll: Manga.about.com, where Deb Aoki is doing a nice job of keeping up with the manga scene. Check out her in-depth interviews with Kurt Hassler and Dallas Middaugh. I haven’t been a fan of the About.com sites … Continue reading →

In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh interviews Dylan Acres, one of the founders of the excellent Rumiko Takahashi fan site Rumic World. I liked this, because it sums up what I like about manga: In ’93 I was coming … Continue reading →

The manga edition of Wired is up on the web, including the ten-page manga, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Atsuhisa Okura, and Daniel Pink’s look at the “Manga Industrial Complex.” I wrote a short review of the manga, … Continue reading →

Shameless self-promotion: Don’t miss this month’s Shojo Beat, which has (in addition to the usual bouquet of goodies) a brief article by yours truly about The Rose of Versailles and the Japanese love of all things French and frilly. Speaking … Continue reading →