Category Archives: Mangablog

Over at ICv2, Steve Bates riffs on the stereotypical comics store: I call it the “3-D Model:” Dark, Dirty, and Disorganized. He gets some pretty funny digs in but also makes a serious point: To attract the next generation of … Continue reading →

The Taipei Times reports that the film production house of manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka (“Astro Boy”) is planning to make an anime-style film in China for the Chinese market, using local talent and a plot based on Chinese fairy tales. … Continue reading →

A review of a Japanese film festival in St. Petersburg—that’s Russia, not Florida—points out that “there’s something fundamentally unsettling about Japanese anime,” and it’s not what you think (sex, violence, fan service). It’s that anime and manga use a childlike … Continue reading →

Now here is some synergy: USA Today and other sources report that manga has come to CosmoGIRL, in the form of a two-page strip that will run in the monthly magazine. The writer is Svetlana Chmakova, author of the online … Continue reading →

Sequential Tart has a nice roundup of what shoujo manga comics professionals are reading. The longest quote is from ElfQuest creator Wendy Pini, who opines that Extroverted girls who fantasize about dating the captain of the football team are probably … Continue reading →

The hottest book in my house these days is Yotsuba&!, by Kiyohoko Azuma, the creator of Azumanga Daioh. My kids absolutely love this book and still be heard laughing out loud at it, even on the third and fourth reading. … Continue reading →