Category Archives: Mangablog

I got a nice e-mail from Heewoon Chung of Netcomics today with some good news: Netcomics now supports Safari and Firefox browsers on Mac OS, which means that many, many more people can check them out. Netcomics launched in January … Continue reading →

OK, geez, I take a day off to take my dad to the doctor and all heck breaks loose. I refer to the Tokyopop/HarperCollins deal, which even made the New York Times. (registration required; I’ll update the link if it … Continue reading →

A quick update on what was going on while I was off earning money. At Love Manga, David Taylor is understandably thrilled that Del Rey is expanding to the UK and peppers them with questions via e-mail, thus unearthing this … Continue reading →

Flower Mound sounds like a manga title, but it’s really a town in Texas that just had a manga day at the local library. Some good comments from youth librarian Teresa Chiv: Chiv said she considers manga to be at … Continue reading →

As if there weren’t enough reasons to read Shojo Beat, the April issue will have an interview with manga artist Keiko Takemiya. Interestingly, none of her work is available in English (according to the press release), although I’m sure the … Continue reading →

The Japan Times has a fairly dry article on why non-Japanese, especially in the U.S., study Japan. For most of us, these paragraphs are the only part of interest: The fourth trend is the widening gap between academic works and … Continue reading →