Remember that terrible Brandon X situation I wrote about last year? An American man, crossing the border into Canada, was charged with child pornography for having manga images on his computer. Though the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund could not say exactly what the manga was, they reassured me earlier this year that the images were nowhere near the more …
What do you use to read when you’re traveling? Do you pack up magazines and books or go all digital on your laptop or eReader? Do you ever stop at a shop in the bus station, airport, or train station and pick up a comic to read? An act as benign as carrying a comic book at an international border …
Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in a convention called MangaNEXT. I wasn’t entirely sure what I was getting myself into when I applied for a press badge to this convention. I just knew that the subject interested me. Manga are Japanese comic books. They cover a wide variety of topics and are targeted to every market …
