Category Archives: Mangablog

Anime News Network has a peculiar story about Tokyopop edging away from the terms “OEL manga” and “world manga.” Susan Hale of Tokyopop explained that OEL is innapropriate because many of their titles originate from non-anglophone creators, for example Yonen … Continue reading →

I’m still buried under a huge project but hope to be done by the weekend. In the meantime, some fun things have popped up on the web. At Mangacast, Ed and Jarred have posted the latest edition of Manga Curry … Continue reading →

ICv2 wakes us up this morning with the news that Netcomics is branching out into two new genres. Your Lover is a shoujo title about the love affair between French painter Marie Laurencin and poet Guillaume Appolinaire. Lethe is a … Continue reading →

Over at Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh is tallying his purchases for this week. He’d better start taking the bus, because Anime On DVD ferreted out news of whole slew of new titles: From Go!Comi, fourth volumes of Cantarella, Crossroad, and … Continue reading →

ICv2 is bullish on manga. They estimate total retail sales of manga in North America in 2005 as $155 to $180 million, and they also revisited their 2004 estimate of $110 to $140 million and decided the true number was … Continue reading →

Here’s the latest news from Victorville: The Barstow Community College Library has ordered copies of Paul Gravett’s Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics and will put them on display when they arrive, probably at the end of the month. “Our … Continue reading →