Category Archives: Mangablog

Here’s Comics.212.net’s Chris Butcher on the popularity of shoujo manga: “The romantic genre is known as Shoujo manga, and over the past five or 10 years, you’ve really seen it blossom. Girls have flocked to it. “We’re even starting to … Continue reading →

So, I opened up the Boston Globe this morning and there was Peach Fuzz, right on the funny pages. And it was tiny. Teeny tiny. The Globe runs their comics small, but they allotted a decent amount of space to … Continue reading →

There must be a serious Rumiko Takahashi fan on the editorial board of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, because that paper is running a series of six articles about Takahashi’s work. The fourth, which runs today, is about three stand-alone works that … Continue reading →

Perhaps you’re one of the millions of people who don’t read CosmoGirl!, but you’re curious about the manga feature that Dramacon artist Svetlana Chmakova draws for it each month. Well, here it is. The page is very pink, and there … Continue reading →

In her new column on Buzzscope, Sabrina artist Tania Del Rio puts in the last word on the are-manga-comics controversy. I agree with everything she says. Now let’s all go on to something interesting. (Thanks to David at Love Manga … Continue reading →

Here is a nice local-personality feature about a 15-year-old manga artist. I have a soft spot for this type of story because I wrote so many of them myself when I was a reporter. And here is my favorite quote, … Continue reading →