Groth speaks on new manga line

Deb Aoki scores an interview with Gary Groth, president and co-publisher of Fantagraphics, who delighted the manga blogosphere this week with the announcement of a new manga line to be edited by Matt Thorn.

The latest edition of The Manga Curmudgeon’s shoujo-sunjeong alphabet is brought to you by the letter U.

Yoshitoshi ABe has already made a manga for the iPhone; now you can get his latest for a dollar on the Kindle.

News from Japan: ANN has the latest Japanese comics rankings. Manga-ka Yoshitoshi ABe reacts to the proposed amendment to the Tokyo ordinances that would prohibit depiction of young-looking people having sex. (Via the Icarus blog.)

Reviews: Matt Blind looks at vol. 4 of Emma for the Manga Moveable Feast at Rocket Bomber. Snow Wildsmith posts brief reviews of three Makoto Tateno manga at Fujoshi Librarian.

Alexander Hoffman on vol. 7 of 20th Century Boys (Comics Village)
Rebecca Bundy on vol. 1 of Arata the Legend (ANN)
Penny Kenny on vol. 1 of Cactus’s Secret (Manga Life)
Danielle Leigh on vols. 3 and 4 of Bamboo Blade (Comics Should Be Good)
Charles Webb on vol. 22 of Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga Life)
Katherine Farmar on vol. 1 of In the Walnut (Comics Village)
Zoey on Manhattan Love Story (Manga Jouhou)
Rob on vol. 6 of Marmalade Boy (Panel Patter)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 25 of Negima! (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 36 of One Piece (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Shannon Fay on vol. 1 of Otodama – Voice from the Dead (Kuriousity)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 7 of Pluto (The Comic Book Bin)
Ken Haley on vol. 1 of Taimashin: The Red Spider Exorcist (Manga Recon)
Chris Mautner on vol. 1 of Ultimo (Robot 6)

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Comments

  1. The ABe doujinshi costs more than $1 here; “$3.53 includes VAT & international wireless delivery”

    Also, for some reason I’d thought that the Youth Protection thing wasn’t to do with the depiction of “young-looking people having sex”, but with young people (or people of young apperance) being portrayed in a sexy (or sexually provocative) manner? Was I mistaken?

  2. ABe’s argument is…herm….
    While I agree with the whole…for there to be light, there must be darkness…. Like: “There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.” -Albert Camus
    But the whole…showing people war so they can see it’s evil and learn that it’s evil….. Well, people are seeing war, and still going to or wanting to go to war so…. I mean, I watch, say, Saving Private Ryan, which breaks my heart, and I don’t understand how anyone could ever go to war after seeing something like that. Like, why would you put people through that? It’s so awful. But I assume most people aren’t bothered by it like I am, or things would be rather different, which is what was making it so dangerous.
    So, I don’t know that I really agree with the example he used, but I do agree that…well, I wouldn’t want to live in a sterilized world either.

    I also thought the new law was young people simply being portrayed in a sexual manner, and not just outright having sex.