Category Archives: Mangablog

Now that things have loosened up a bit in the rest of my life, I’ve had time to do more reading and writing. My review of Cantarella is up at Manga Life. That is my favorite of the Go!Comi titles … Continue reading →

Earlier this month we started hearing some details of Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra’s new venture into comics in India. Actually, India already has a homegrown comics industry, but it looks like Branson and Chopra will be extending the concept … Continue reading →

For those of us who don’t read Japanese, the Mainichi Daily News Wai Wai column is a great way to sample the trashier aspects of the Land of the Rising Sun, as they present translations of articles from popular magazines. … Continue reading →

David at Love Manga brings us the latest news flash: Seven Seas will be bringing out a Speed Racer comic. It’s going to be a comic book (32 pages, printed in color), not a manga, which is sort of an … Continue reading →

In his latest Flipped column, David Welsh suggest some New Year’s resolutions for the manga industry. Most of them boil down to more variety—more classics, more anthologies, more adult manga. I agree. Having read many, many books about the angst … Continue reading →

There seem to be a lot of librarians in the comics blogosphere, but even those of us who are only library users may find something interesting in this journal article on cataloging manga and anime. My family uses inter-library loan … Continue reading →