Category Archives: Mangablog

Clockwork Hands creator Madeleine Rosca, a runner-up in the International Manga Awards, blogs about her trip to Japan. ComiPress reports that the Japanese manga magazine Comic BomBom will cease publication after the December issue. But when Kodansha closes one door, … Continue reading →

Otaku Champloo has an interesting post about a recent Oricon survey, in Japan, of the most amazing women in manga. Ed has the Japanese manga bestseller list for last week and info on new titles from 801 and June. At … Continue reading →

ICv2 has the June sales figures and the top 100 graphic novels from Diamond. The news is good for those who like their comics in big chunks: Graphic novels sales in comic stores grew by 33% in June versus sales … Continue reading →

Yeah, Tokyopop is getting into the anime business, in a very small way, putting short animations on MySpace of four of their titles. I was expecting pan-and-scan, but these are actually fully animated and in color. The four books, all … Continue reading →

Arina Tanemura is the creator of two of Viz’s most popular series, Full Moon and The Gentlemen’s Alliance +, so she’s a natural to be their guest at SDCC. If, like me, you’re not heading west next week, the August … Continue reading →

Fred Gallagher drops in at The Engine to talk about how and why MegaTokyo got picked up by Kodansha. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind looks at online manga sales rankings for this week. LJ’er redplasticglass muses on the recent seinen-josei discussions. … Continue reading →