Category Archives: Mangablog

PR: Pick the best of BL at Yaoi Suki

BL readers take note: Yaoi Suki is running its annual BL awards again, and voting is now under way for the User’s Choice award. Jordan Marks and Jen Parker, the dedicated pair behind YS, are approaching their topic with cheery … Continue reading

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Wired covers manga

Wired magazine hops onto the manga bandwagon with a ten-page, right-to-left manga about the history of our favorite medium, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Atsuhisa Okura, that should render all those Manga 101 articles obsolete. (I’m including the … Continue reading

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Snippets

The MangaCast crew post their picks from this week’s new comics. ICv2 talks to Philip Simon of Dark Horse about transitioning Blade of the Immortal from floppies to trades. Yaoi Suki notes, among other news, that Blu is raising the … Continue reading

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Hot properties

Apparently this Naruto thing is going pretty well: All three of the October volumes are on the USA Today bestseller list once again, with vol. 21 at number 39 (up from 69 last week), vol. 20 at number 54 (up … Continue reading

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Review: With the Light

With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child, vol. 1 By Keiko Tobe Rated All Ages Yen Press, $14.99 Japan may have manga for every topic, as we are so often told, but the range of titles translated into English is … Continue reading

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Wednesday quick links

I didn’t realize Publishers Weekly did alternate covers, but this week there seem to be two, and Naruto is the cover boy on one of them. The other has a Bible, and inside is this cover story about new ways … Continue reading

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