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 […]

I find this somewhat disturbing.

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 in the Information RAGE
IM reference: refuge of the shiftless and lazy

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 […]

They Cybils are announced!
I had a fun time serving as a judge for the graphic novel category.

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 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 […]

Harry Potter Knitting

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 used to describe […]