Where’s Naruto?

ICv2 reports that comics sales were up in August but graphic novel sales were down. They also post Diamond’s list of the top 300 graphic novels, and the top-ranking manga is The Legend of Zelda, at number 25.

At Comics Reporter, David Welsh reviews the status of several manga series that have been on hiatus or in limbo for a while.

It looks like Yen Press has a manga version of The Clique in the works. Does the world really need this?

Yen Plus Info has another side-by-side comparison of the ADV and Yen Press editions of Yotsuba&!

Sadie Mattox ponders the question of the manga canon, and whether Americans should make one at all, at Extremely Graphic.

All Yaoi Press graphic novels—even artbooks—are on sale for five bucks each at EverythingYaoi.com.

News from Japan: This is odd: Crayon Shinchan manga-ka Yoshito Usui has apparently been missing since last Friday. Cataracts have forced Barefoot Gen creator Keiji Nakazawa to abandon plans to draw a sequel to his manga about a child’s experiences during the bombing of Hiroshima. Morning 2 has canceled the yuri series Gunjō, and Hakusensha is launching a new anthology, Rakuen.

Reviews: It’s not manga, but a trio of good reads nonetheless: I review three history webcomics in my latest Unbound column at Robot 6. At Manga Life, Park Cooper fills us in on what he has been reading lately. David E. Ford, Jr., looks at three sci-fi manga, Swallowing the Earth, They Were Eleven, and Ooku – The Inner Chamber, at Are You A Serious Comic Book Reader? Other reviews of note:

Deb Aoki on vols. 1 and 2 of Animal Academy (About.com)
James Fleenor on vol. 1 of Animal Academy (Anime Sentinel)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 3 of Crimson Hero (i heart manga)
Julie on vol. 11 of High School Debut (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Connie on vol. 2 of Kimi ni Todoke (Slightly Biased Manga)
Michelle Smith on vols. 12 and 13 of Love*Com (Soliloquy in Blue)
Amy Grockl on Love Like a Comedy (Comics Village)
Sterg Botzakis on Monster (Graphic Novel Resources)
Anonymous on vol. 41 of Naruto (Animanga Nation)
Erica Friedman on Needless (Okazu)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Ooku: The Inner Chambers (The Manga Critic)
Emily on Tokimeki Tonight (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Blog)
Carlo Santos on vol. 22 of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle (ANN)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 7 of Vampire Knight (Manga Life)
Tangognat on vols. 2-5 of We Were There (Tangognat)
Derek Halliday on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (Comikaider Halliday)
Connie on vol. 3 of You’re So Cool (Slightly Biased Manga)