A Zoo in Winter is the latest translated graphic novel from the mangaka Jiro Taniguchi.  A Zoo in Winter is based on Jiro Taniguchi’s youth when he broke into the manga industry as an assistant.  I do not think this is the best graphic novel in the Jiro Taniguchi canon or is it one of...

Points of interest from the comics interweb; I sort the chaff so you only get the wheat.

This weekend I was checking the comic news to see if any of the publishers were taking part in Black Friday or Cyber Monday, big discount shopping days surrounding Thanksgiving in the United States. I came across Digital Dark Horse cyber Monday deal: 50% off all books from their digital store...

Our first glimpse of warm weather reminds us that summer is just around the corner. April showers bring more than May flowers; they bring the start of the summer movie season. What comic book movies hit the big screen this summer? We have the run-down on the good and the bad coming to theaters...

Oh man, it’s an end of an era for manga fans. Tokyopop sent out a press release, which you can see below, on April 15th that said they would be closing down their U.S publishing branch. Tokyopop started off in 1997 as Minx where it published mainly shojo stuff like Sailor Moon and some...

On Saturday afternoon, I sat in on a panel on censorship of manga. Generally speaking, I feel that censorship ultimately does more harm than good. I think that being told what is “safe” for me to read is incredibly paternalistic and patronizing and I know that a lot of “studies” that...