Category Archives: Mangablog

David Welsh brings an education professional’s perspective to manga programs at Japanese universities: It can be worrying when a discipline becomes a bandwagon program (it’s hot, and everyone has to have one, even if the graduate placement rates aren’t great). … Continue reading →

Yes, it’s that time of the week again: Jack and I get our podcast on about anthologies, drunken manga-ka, and underage manga-cafe denizens. Check it all out at the MangaCast. For further reading, here are the show notes: We want … Continue reading →

Volume 11 of Naruto makes it to week six on the USA Today top 150 books, and the book hasn’t slipped much, moving from number 43 last week to 46 this week.

Telophase’s latest manga column is up at the Tokyopop site, and it’s a brief history of Osamu Tezuka. MangaCast checks this week’s comics list. Read it before you head to the store! PW Comics Week explains what Broccoli is all … Continue reading →

Ed Chavez and the MangaCast crew have been tinkering with the internets again, and look what they came up with: PodViews, previews that you can subscribe to and download just like audio files, so you don’t have to go through … Continue reading →

In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh interviews David Wise, the CEO of Go!Comi. The Japan Times interviews manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi, author of The Push Man, and reviews his new book, Abandon the Old in Tokyo. (Via Journalista.)