Is when you get home from work, and you’ve got a box of comics and a package of yarn at your doorstep

Good Witch of the West by Noriko Ogiwara and Haruhiko Momokawa (amazon)
I’d watched the first couple episodes of the anime for Good Witch of the West, so I wanted to check out the manga it was based on. Firel Dee grew up in the country. Her father spends all of his time locked up […]

Zombie Powder by Tite Kubo (amazon)

Bleach is one of my favorite fighting manga. It has the winning combination of interesting characters, an appealing art style, and kinetic fight scenes that are inventive, crazy, and sometimes funny. Zombie Powder is Tite Kubo’s earlier series and after sampling the first volume, I can understand why it […]

Klezmer Book One: Tales of the Wild East by Joann Sfar (amazon)
Growing up in a mainly Jewish household in the midwest, I had a dim awareness of klezmer. I knew that it was the music people played when you did the chair thing at celebrationsweddings and bar/bat mitzvahs, and I guessed that klezmer was the […]

I wanted an excuse to play around with the new Google Co-op service, so I started an anime and manga blog search. I think I’ve set things up so anyone can volunteer to add content, so if you know of some sites I didn’t include, feel free to add them!

You can nominate books for the kids’ lit blog book awards right here.

One of my librarian colleagues just tipped me off to this documentary from American Radioworks about the pop cultural power of Japan. You can download it here. Reporters visit stores in Japan, go to an anime convention, talk about youth culture, and comment on the economics of manga and anime. You can listen to a […]

I’ve been taking full advantage of my local public library, which combined with my buying habits (I’ve been treating myself a little bit recently due to my getting a paycheck again) has created quite the stack of unread materials sitting around my house:
Comics + Graphic Novels
Top Ten # 1 and Promethea # 1-3 - the […]

I’ve done something that I haven’t done since I was 10. I read an Archie comic. Archie #570, specifically. It is out now, and it is easily distinguishable from other comics by the red banner across the top of the cover that proclaims “In this issue Archie visits the world famous Salt Lake City Library!”
In […]

It is pretty sad that a second after reading the headline for this story, my immediate thought was Superman!