Summer’s here, the kids are home, and suddenly, time seems to s t r e t c h out. If we know anything about kids, it’s that summer is equal parts excitement and equal parts boredom. However, we have the perfect way to quell their boredom in the form of must-read manga series that are […]
December brings shorter days, endless Christmas songs, and a strong urge to compile best-of-the-year lists. This was a good year for manga, with strong showings by blockbuster ongoing series and the launch of some intriguing new ones. Here’s a look at some of the manga we thought were the cream of the 2018 crop. Best […]
Teens and adults fueled the original U.S. manga boom as well as its recent second wave, but kids like comics too—in fact, we’ve seen a huge uptick in graphic novels for readers 12 and under in the past decade. But what about manga? Everyone knows about Pokémon (and we do love it so), but what […]
Every month, we bring you Barnes & Noble’s bestsellers in sci-fi and fantasy over the prior 30-day period. But which books had staying power throughout the year? Below, we take a look at the books that sold, and sold, and sold throughout 2017. Hardcovers
Last week we shared some of our favorite “one-shot” single-volume manga from the past year—but manga that tell an entire story in a single book certainly aren’t the usual way of doing things. And that’s just fine: we love a compact story, well told, but there’s just something about following the same characters and storylines […]