Category Archives: Mangablog

Great Graphic Novels list is out!

Dark Horse has been adding manga and manhwa to their digital site pretty aggressively; Deb Aoki notes the newest additions. YALSA has released its Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, and it includes a number of manga; vol. 1 of … Continue reading

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Jason Thompson on what went wrong with manga

Here’s your must-read manga post of the day: Editor, creator, and all-around manga pundit Jason Thompson pens a thoughtful essay at io9 titled Why Manga Publishing Is Dying (And How It Could Get Better). Jason’s description of the reasons for … Continue reading

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ALC and JManga partner to bring new yuri online

Here’s an intriguing new development: A partnership between the small yuri manga publisher ALC and the digital manga portal JManga. The two are working together to bring the yuri manga Poor Poor Lips to North American readers—and alas, only North … Continue reading

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GTO preview, new yuri, and scary shoujo

Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s new all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids. Good news for yuri lovers: JManga and ALC Publishing have formed a partnership to publish the yuri manga Poor Poor Lips on … Continue reading

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Back to work!

I’m back from my adventure-filled trip to Ireland (if you define “adventure” as drinking a lot of tea and getting lost on the one-way streets). If you’re curious, I posted a more-or-less real-time account at Twitter and I’ll be writing … Continue reading

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And the nominees are…

The nominees for this year’s Manga Taisho Award were just unveiled. Of the fifteen titles on the list, two — Flowers of Evil and Drifters — have been licensed in English. The nominees also include Hiromu Arakawa’s latest series Silver … Continue reading

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