Garage Band
Garage Band by Gipi (amazon.com) Giuliano gets a temporary loan of a garage from his dad, and finally gets an idea practice space for his band. Stefano is the lead singer, who looks at the dirty garage and announces that they’ll all get horrible diseases and die. Alberto is the guitarist. Alex is the drummer [...]
itsy bitsy spiderman
I find this somewhat disturbing.
Librarian Scorned and Manga Ratings
A Librarian Scorned Mangablog points out the new Tokyopop age ratings. They seem so very mix and matchable. I wonder what a title would be like if it was rated: Cartoon Violence Non-sexual Nondescript Nudity Illegal Drug Reference Occultism Moderate Gore
Batgirl and IM reference
Batgirl in the Information RAGE IM reference: refuge of the shiftless and lazy
Beauty Pop
Beauty Pop by Kiyoko Arai (amazon.com) I shouldn’t be surprised anymore about the subjects that manga is able to turn into Iron Chef style drama. Beauty Pop is about hairdressing. Kiri’s father owns a salon. She’s talented at cutting hair, but she isn’t very competitive. Her bangs are always in her eyes, and her uniform [...]
Cybils announced
They Cybils are announced! I had a fun time serving as a judge for the graphic novel category.
Girl Stories
Girl Stories by by Lauren Weinstein (amazon.com) Now that we’re almost ready to announce the winners for the Cybils, I thought I’d go back and take a look at one of the titles on the longlist of nominations for the graphic novels category. Girl Stories is showcases a bunch of funny coming of age vignettes [...]
Wild Adapter
Wild Adapter by Kazuya Minekura (amazon.com) Kubota is a cool, enigmatic man. He’s so self-contained that in Wild Adapter, you learn more about him from the way the other characters react to him as opposed to his own thoughts and feelings. Kubota lives for gambling, especially mahjong, but he remains strangely distant about making connections [...]
Just when you think you’d seen every kind of knitting book
Harry Potter Knitting
Ask Tangognat: All about favicons
Juice wrote: Hey, weird tech question, but I notice you have a personalized Tab image that appears when I have your site open in one of many tabs in IE. How does one go about customizing tab images? This is one of those questions that is hard to answer unless you already know the terminology [...]
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