Category Archives: Mangablog

My reviews of volume 6 of Fruits Basket and volume 2 of Ultra Maniac are up at Manga Life.

When two of my favorite comics commentators say almost the same thing, I begin to sense a trend. At Cognitive Dissonance, Johanna is giving up on Rurouni Kenshin: I’m definitely quitting with this one, because it was a chore to … Continue reading →

What is it exactly that makes manga different? In this month’s issue of Sequential Tart, we get the second installment of an insider’s view: artist Pam Bliss explains how manga artists break the rules that Western artists learned in Comics … Continue reading →

An article in this morning’s New York Times describes the effect that a visit to an art museum has on people with Alzheimer’s: they seem to be able to appreciate art on some very visceral level, and some are actually … Continue reading →

I don’t have any kittens, or orchids, or funny old comic book covers to scan in for an easy post, but I do have some pretty cool stamps that came on a letter from a friend in France a few … Continue reading →

The news hook, as we say in the biz, is that Asterix is taking on manga, but this article in Bloomberg News is more about the European comics market than the venerable Gaul. David Taylor at Love Manga, who is … Continue reading →