Category Archives: Mangablog

The Herald Tribune of… uh… somewhere in Florida (what is it with newspapers not putting their home city on the website?) has an interview with Buzz Dixon, author of the Christian OEL manga Serenity. Dixon first started experimenting with a … Continue reading →

Running out of stuff to read? Ed Chavez at Anime on DVD has been keeping busy at NYCC, jotting down announcements of new releases (and adding a bit of commentary). Check the blog, because a lot of them are already … Continue reading →

This what-is-manga article in the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times does a great job of explaining what shoujo manga is and why girls like it. The reason, as in the Baltimore Sun article I linked to earlier, is that the writer … Continue reading →

That’s the provocative headline on the PW wrapup of the NYCC panel discussion titled “A Nosebleed means WHAT?: Sexuality in Japanese Manga.” One of the big problems librarians face is where to put the books: Genre’s like Yaoi (boys in … Continue reading →

The Sunday papers include two more attempts to explain this manga thing to a bewildered public. The Baltimore Sun weighs in with a fairly short article that mostly gets it right. Reporter Elizabeth Lange focuses tightly on shoujo manga and … Continue reading →

My review of Her Majesty’s Dog is up at Manga Life. And here’s one of the cool things about the internets: Someone is linking to me in Japanese. Too bad I have no idea what they are saying.