Category Archives: Mangablog

Vol. 17 of Fruits Basket moves up to number 34 on this week’s USA Today best-seller list. At Shuchaku-East, Chloe looks at the upcoming Naruto wave and sees plenty of shoujo in its wake. Is Viz thinking of distributing their … Continue reading →

Yesterday, PWCW published an article I wrote about Mark Crilley, the creator of Miki Falls. At one point in our interview, Crilley commented that “For this generation, comics are manga.” Over at The Engine, Svetlana Chmakova asks whether that is … Continue reading →

Recently, at The Beat, everyone was talking about what actual teenage girls think of the Minx line. One thing that emerged in comments is that DC isn’t marketing it enough towards readers of YA works, rather than manga readers. Working … Continue reading →

The July direct market sales numbers are out, reflecting Diamond’s sales to comics stores. ICv2 reports that sales of graphic novels were flat in July, but they’re not too worried about a single month. Manga did relatively well in their … Continue reading →

Some good reading to start your day: In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh interviews Jim Chadwick and Asako Suzuki, who are putting together a very nice and somewhat underrated line of manga at CMX. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind posts … Continue reading →

The Weekly Recon, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei’s look at this week’s new manga and mini-reviews of recent releases, is up at PopCultureShock. The Plymouth, Massachusetts, paper interviews My Cat Loki artist Bettina Kurkoski. Adam Stephanides writes about a tricky translation issue in … Continue reading →