Category Archives: Mangablog

Chris Mautner has already made the Newsarama Blog much more interesting to us non-Marvel-and-DC types. Now he redeems the newspaper manga-101 genre as well with a well researched and well written primer on yaoi. If that whetted your appetite, registration … Continue reading →

Two years ago today, my husband showed me how to use WordPress and turned me loose with a blog of my own. Nothing has been the same since. MangaBlog was originally a sideline for what was supposed to be a … Continue reading →

Everyone else has been talking about it, but Kurt Hassler is doing it: Hassler told me today that Yen Press is planning to publish a manga anthology, probably beginning in 2008. The format: black and white, chapters of 6 to … Continue reading →

I realize some people are sick to death of NYCC, so I’m gathering these links into a separate post. You can listen to the audio of the Viz panel, which was pretty entertaining, at MangaCast. Christopher Butcher completes his reflections … Continue reading →

Ed Chavez gives his take on Hachette’s purchase of the French publisher PIKA. Manga markdowns at Tokyopop! A South Korean manhwa-ga, Lee Won-Bok is accused of anti-Semitism over an educational manhwa called Monnara Iunnara (Distant Countries and Neighboring Countries) that … Continue reading →

I already mentioned this in my NYCC coverage, and in fact I interviewed Elfquest creator Wendy Pini about this new webcomic at Digital Strips. Pini is really re-imagining Poe’s classic story, setting it in the future and adding new characters … Continue reading →