Okay, we all know that there are no new ideas in fiction, right? Especially when it comes to manga.  The Japanese are absolute masters of running over the same opossum to the point that they’ll vary the positions of the entry and exit of the tire treads by millimeters just to see what changes on […]

Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro is a unique offering by mangaka Kiyuouki Satoko. The manga is an interesting slipstream mix of fantasy and “mad scientist” archetypes used as settings for telling a series of uplifting slice-of-life stories.
The main character, “Kuro”, is a traveller on a quest to locate a witch who has mysteriously cursed her.  Frequently mistaken for […]

My daughter snagged this off the manga shelf at Barnes and Noble the other day and immediately gave me the puppy-dog look.  “Can I please have this?”
Yeah.  Right.  Like I was going to say, “No.”
The thing is, what she had keyed in to was direct evidence that not everyone making money decisions in traditional publishing […]