All of the most carefully embargoed secrets can be lain to waste by one unexpected early listing on Amazon.com, and that's exactly what happened today. ...

http://www.tcj.com/manga/journalista-reputation-destroying-extra-four-years-work Very, very good news. Edit: Much longer post (by me) here: http://comics212.net/2010/03/09/matt-thorn-to-edit-curate-new-manga-line-for-fantagraphics/ - Chris

Oh Nick Simmons. I kind of wanted to post a spirited defense of you using scans of Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, but I ...

ITEM! I was once again invited to be a guest on the SPACE Podcast, on February 12th. For those of you not in the know, ...

Rescued from the previous iteration of this very website is the following review of Iou Kuroda's Sexy Voice And Robo. When David Welsh contacted me ...

8. The Push Man, and Other Stories, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Published by Drawn and Quarterly, September 2005. Alternative Comics: The purveyors and creators of that material ...

7. Antique Bakery Volume 1, by Fumi Yoshinaga. Published by Digital Manga Publishing, July 2005. Much like Cardcaptor Sakura wasn't the first shoujo title published in ...

#6: Raijin Comics #46, by various. Published by Gutsoon Entertainment, July 2004 Upon the publication of the last issue of Raijin Comics, issue #46, in July ...

#5. Buddha Volume 1: Kapilavastu HC, by Osamu Tezuka. Published by Vertical Inc., October 2003. When I think of how and why Osamu Tezuka's Buddha was ...

#3: Shonen Jump #1. November 2002. Published by Viz. [caption id="attachment_4740" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Shonen Jump, Volume 1, Issue 1. Published by Viz, November 2002."][/caption] I kept going ...

There were more manga released each month in 2009 than were released in the entirety of the year 2000. The growth of Japanese-originating comics in ...

Over at Comics Comics, they've printed an interview with Yoshihiro Tatsumi conducted at the 2009 Toronto Comic Arts Festival. It's by one of our customers ...

I've been working in comic book stores for a long time, 15 years this year. Not as long as many of the "lifers" I've met during ...

A few years ago I went to bat for a bunch of good books, and against Tokyopop, their publisher who was gonna drop'em all before ...

A friend passed along a press-kit the other day that's 3 shades of awesome, announcing the team-up of manga-ka Moyoco Anno (best known in America ...

This past weekend a new Japanese pop-cultural centre opened in San Francisco, and it sounds pretty awesome. It's called New People and it's... well it's ...

Hey folks, sorry the updates have been slow... Internet access hasn't been that frequent, and we've actually been travelling quite a bit. So far we ...

Update 2, Final: So I am flat out wrong. But it's still really interesting. Check this: I received the following statement from Michelle Mauk, listed ...

So that's my immediate reaction to the news that Christopher Handley has pled guilty. It's an easy way to feel, admittedly. It's not my ass ...

 Tlönista clears things up for those of you who don't quite get it.  Click through to see the girl version as well. But yeah, go ahead ...

I'm sure I'm being too sensitive about this, but this was annoying: "Hm, front page story in the NYT Arts section…hipster manga just got a lot ...

This is a fantastic article, a translation of a blog post/lecture by the Takekuma Kentaro, co-creator of Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga on the ...

A Drifting Life By Yoshihiro Tatsumi 856 Pages, Softcover, $29.99/$39.99 Published by Drawn & Quarterly I have no doubt that much will be written about this book when it ...

The following was written on January 2nd, 2009: So following my last post on the recently completed Naoki Urasawa's MONSTER, I went for a drink with ...

So lost in the insanity of my last few weeks was the news that Diamond Comics Distributors is de-listing 1018 different products published by Viz, ...