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As we are hosting the Manga Movable Feast this month taking a look at kids manga, we all thought this was a great time to share the joys and difficulties of reviewing manga for kids. A lot of questions come up when reviewing for kids, especially as all of us are a significant number of […]
From your hosts Good Manga for Kids, January 2010 (Yotsuba&! vol. 6-7) Interview: Traci Todd, VIZ Kids Manga Movable Feast: Discussion: Graphic Novel Reporter’s Core Manga for Kids List Manga Movable Feast: Kids’ Table Introduction Manga Movable Feast: Reviewing Kids Manga Roundtable Manga Movable Feast: Yotsuba&! and the Question of Appeal Watch This Space! The Manga […]
Welcome to the Manga Movable Feast: Kids’ Table! For this week, bloggers, commentators, and reviewers will be discussing Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma from Yen Press plus one kids friendly manga title of their choice. For more on the Mange Movable Feast, please check out the call for entries here. Participants, please send your links to entries […]
Starting next Monday, August 29th, we will be hosting a special installment of the Manga Movable Feast zeroing in on kids manga. What is the Manga Movable Feast? For one week, a wide assortment of reviewers, bloggers, and commentators agree to discuss one manga title. The brain child of the first host, David Welsh over […]
When I first heard about Marvel’s Girl Comics, I freely admit from the title alone I rolled my eyes. A few times. However, in investigating a little further, I was excited by the idea of seeing comics created entirely by women hit the comics stores. Is it a media ploy? Yes, likely. Does that mean […]
The circulation numbers for graphic novel collections have always been a selling point. Considering my circulations recently, the numbers are truly impressive. Case Closed, as a series, has circulated over 1200 times (with an average of 40 circulations per volume). In prose fiction, this number can’t even be touched by the Twilight series (352 circulations, […]
Rather than the more usual story covering a parent objecting to graphic novels in the library, in this case this article reported library staff at the Jessamine County Library, located in Nicholasville, Kentucky, stepped in to prevent what they dubbed "porn" from being distributed to a child (an eleven year old girl.) The article, as […]
The New York Times launched its Graphic Books Bestsellers List, including three separate lists of hardcovers, softcovers, and Japanese manga. Reactions online have generally been positive, especially in the sense that the existence of such a list from the New York Times marks a definite step in the broader acceptance of the format. However, there […]
If you had a pirate in your family tree, I’m betting you’d be begging to hear all the stories. Who wouldn’t? This beginning of a series of period adventure stories tracking the geneology of the Crogan family is just how this one ancestor Crogan turned pirate. With sharp artwork, a knack for suspense, and a […]
In the spirit of indulging in less than “good for you” things over the holidays, here are the answers to a question I tossed out to the group: what’s been your guilty pleasure this past year in terms of graphic novel reading? Is there a title or series that, even though you know it’s not […]
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