Now through January 8, 2012,  all the Viz manga titles available on Vizmanga.com and the free Viz Manga app for the iPad and iPod will be discounted up to twenty percent. The regular prices range from $4.99 to $9.99. Included in the discounted books are ‘speed-ups’ of titles that will ...

My sixteen-year-old daughter was keen to attend a manga-drawing workshop at SDCC. We arrived at the appointed room nearly an hour early, having been unable to get into the Jim Henson panel I had hoped to see. Our disappointment quickly turned to delight when we discovered that the panel before ...

This week, I’m turning over the column to my eldest son, age fifteen, because he wanted to talk about Bleach, one of his favorite manga series. Specifically, he wanted to recommend the Bleach Value Pack, Volumes 1-3. I’ll turn the rest of the post over to him. I did review Bleach ...

For my kids, Shonen Jump was the gateway to manga. They had watched a boatload of anime on television. So when a subscription to Shonen Jump was available through the Scholastic Book Club, my eldest son talked me into it. He soon became hooked. His bedroom trunk is now covered in Shonen Jump ...

Viz Media, publishers of some of the most popular manga series, launched its free iPad app in December to provide manga titles available for electronic reading. Since then, they’ve slowly been adding not only titles but more volumes of the series that are already included in the App. As of February, ...

Mark Crilley has been a storyteller most of his life. His work includes the Eisner Award-nominated Akiko books, the acclaimed four-part Miki Falls series and his latest tale, Brody’s Ghost, a six-volume Dark Horse Books project which debuted last summer. Book 2 in the series has just been released. Crilley looked ...

My eldest son handed me Kurozakuro from a stack of review copies I received from Viz last month. He said it was like a reverse Spider-Man and, after reading it, I think he’s right. Summary: All kind and gentle Mikito Sakurai wants is for the bullies at school to leave him alone. ...

Mix a pinch of The Sixth Sense with a dash of The Karate Kid and a bit of The Crow, and you’ll start to get feel for Mark Crilley’s new Dark Horse Books graphic novel, Brody’s Ghost. Crilley — known for his younger-skewing, Eisner Award-nominated Akiko series and the manga drawing lessons ...

Comic books, graphic novels, sequential art or manga; whatever you call them, illustrated books are a great way to tell a story. I’ve been reading comics for most of life, except for a brief period from age 12 to 16 when I though I was too old for them. Boy ...

Peter Gutiérrez, board member of Reading With Pictures, has just posted the first in an series of blog posts about “The Case for Adding Graphic Texts to Your Read-Alouds.”  Upcoming posts will offer some specific strategies, but here’s the key part of his pitch: To kids, reading comics (which are still ...