Category Archives: Mangablog

In my other life, I’m a freelance writer for North Shore Sunday, which covers the area north of Boston, all the way from Saugus up to Marblehead and points beyond. I’d like to do a story on manga and anime … Continue reading →

The Beat picks up on this conversation (which has grown since I linked to it yesterday) about yaoi on a Christian parents’ bulletin board, and notes that cooler heads seem to have prevailed. Here’s a snippet from one poster: Yaoi … Continue reading →

In this week’s Flipped, David Welsh manages to find a few manga he doesn’t like. At Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon takes a look at the Bookscan graphic novel numbers for mid-May and talks a bit about what the numbers do … Continue reading →

From ComicList, here’s what to expect in your local comic store this week. ANIME WORKS PUBLICATIONS Eiken Vol 4, $9.99 BARBOUR PUBLISHING INC Serenity Vol 3 Basket Case, $7.97 Serenity Vol 4 Rave N Rant, $7.97 Serenity Vol 5 Snow … Continue reading →

Blogger Elizabeth McClung writes about being detained by customs at the Canadian border (she’s Canadian) while the officers went through all her manga, looking for the dirty pictures. As soon as I declared that I had some of the japanese … Continue reading →

ComiPress offers three intriguing stories to start off your week: a brief history of the relationship between manga and photocopiers, Amazon may start carrying doujinshi, and a story on how kids these days don’t know how to read manga. (All … Continue reading →