Category Archives: Mangablog

The Japanese manga illustration magazine SS is looking for submissions with the theme of “costume.” ComiPress has the guidelines. Asahi.com looks at two new magazines with otaku appeal, Mechabi and Phantom. Mechabi editor Yuichi Matsushita, 26, says his biggest competition … Continue reading →

Newsarama interviews Jake Forbes about his new Tokyopop title, Return to Labyrinth, based on the Jim Henson film Labyrinth. Naruto takes the train: ICv2 tells us that Viz is doing a major promotion with San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit, … Continue reading →

… but not mine. I’m kind of burned out on it, actually. David Taylor really didn’t like the article I linked to yesterday, and his critique has some merit: The author hasn’t read much yaoi. This is because the number … Continue reading →

In a post cleverly titled “Even a Gaijin Can Draw Manga,” Bento Physics takes on the question of global manga. Here’s the key quote: I believe that OEL manga should be an aspirational ideal and not a marketing/publishing conceit, that … Continue reading →

The LA Weekly has a nice article about Yoshihiro Tatsumi, but it doesn’t go into depth like this week’s PW Comics Weekly piece. If you only have time to read one, go with PW. Ginger Mayerson of the Lincoln Heights … Continue reading →

Late July/early August must be a big deadline time at Tokyopop. After an absence of several months, Svetlana Chmakova returns to her LiveJournal, having finally completed volume 2 of Dramacon. Just ahead of her was Rivkah, who had a harrowing … Continue reading →