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Chip Chat Vol. 2: One Lucky Chap - SKTCHD Chip's back, and this time, he's going Hollywood!

Chip Chat is BACK, as the second episode in my interview series with writer, artist, and man about comics Chip Zdarsky hit today. In it, we talk: The Sex Criminals adaptation news! Whether he's rich now???? The upcoming MAD About DC! How he figures out the right paths to take! And much more!

It's a delight. My dad loved it. Adds context for basically the rest of the trip.

Edo Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku, for sure.

We're investigating now, but nothing to announce.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

A happy surprise from the Canada Council in my bank account today, so this is your annual reminder to get those sweet, sweet PLR dollars if you're a Canadian translator, writer, or other maker of books. They give you money for being in the library! You get paid again for work you already did!!

Delightful!

#InTheStacks at @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social: @iamdavidbrothers.com (of Mangasplaining) names Vinland Saga as one of the great comics/manga. Chip Zdarsky co-signs.

Watch The Stacks Season One Now. Season Two starts streaming Tuesday (2/10).

Happy to see Kotteri's VEIL VOLUME 1 from Udon on the bestseller shelf at The Beguiling, in Toronto, Canada. Looking for a volume 1? They've got it!

Really digging this series, DEEPLY inspired by Chip's experiences reading manga on the podcast. And you know, everything going on in the world. Congrats on the award, Chipper!

Wow, that's LOTS of good news today! SEARCH AND DESTROY has been honored by the American Library Association's GNCRT in their inaugural awards! This is huge news! Big congrats to @fantagraphics.bsky.social label-mate Raised by Ghosts for their win, and all the winners and honorees!

We're finalizing the materials for Wandering Cat's Cage now with the good folks @fantagraphics.bsky.social. There will be two new text pieces in this one! Hooray! Thanks to the folks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the vote of confidence. :)

Very pleased to see our @mangasplaining.bsky.social / @udonentertainment.bsky.social edition of “Giga Town: A guide to manga iconography” by Fumio Kouno at the @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social gift shop as part of the “art of manga” exhibit goodies

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It has! We're back at work though. Updates when we have something solid to say. <3

We just learned this week that Susumu Higa's OKINAWA, our co-pro with the good folks @fantagraphics.bsky.social, received a 2023 Graphic Novel Diversity Honor from the Virgina Library Association! Thank you to all involved! See the full list of winners here: vla.memberclicks.net/2023-graphic...

📚 Join us Jan 14, 2026 for the Kodansha x NYPL Manga Book Club!

We’ll be discussing the Award–winning memoir My Journey to Her with guest editors TJ Ferentini & Haruko Hashimoto at the 53rd St Library, NYC.

Want more manga events like this? Tell your local librarian! 💬
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POST is a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains

Me and Shuzo Oshimi’s “Me and Bob Dylan (And My Father)” By David Brothers Shuzo Oshimi is a cartoonist who is largely known for works that blend youth and perversion, in the specific sense of a deviation from the norm, but still with all the sexual subt…

David wrote an essay about Shuzo Oshimi's new short autobiographical manga, "Me and Bob Dylan (And My Father)" as featured in the free YOUNG Magazine released a few months back. shelfdust.com/2025/12/17/m...

Speaking of, I got to meet Our incredible No Roses Without Thorns letterer @aikosmith.com at an event in Tokyo tonight! More on the book soon! -CWB

an update on @mangasplaining.bsky.social / @udonentertainment.bsky.social release of “No Roses Without Thorns,” Nami Sasou’s manga about being a shojo manga assistant in the 1970s.

Udon’s switch fr Diamond to Simon & Schuster for distribution disrupted things , but we’re aiming for 2026 release

マンガ・アニメ文化の行方 なぜ“原画”は海外へ | なぜ“原画”は海外へ 【NHK】たった１枚のマンガの原画が「３５００万円」。いま、世界中でマンガの原画やアニメのセル画が高値で取引されている。いったい、誰が、どのような目的で売買しているのか。

Excited to watch this NHK Doc about the booming international market for manga original pages. Emily Yoshimoto @emilyyoshimoto.bsky.social has been writing about this (in manga form!) regarding her father Baron Yoshimoto's originals for a while! www.web.nhk/tv/pl/series...

Hello! We want to let you know that SEARCH AND DESTROY VOL 3, Atsushi Kaneko's incredible conclusion to the series, is now in stores. We hope you love it!

Guess who's back...

Search and Destroy Vol. 3, the conclusion to Atsushi Kaneko's cyberpunk retelling of the timeless, Eisner Award–winning Dororo by “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka, is out today! https://ow.ly/2TT050XxgKN

"I took the anger Osamu Tezuka poured into Dororo and made it my own, creating Search And Destroy as a work that needed to be made in the present day." Atsushi Kaneko spoke to Paul Semel about Search and Destroy Vol. 3 (out now!)--head to https://ow.ly/G1B150Xym7z to read the full interview!

It really, really does. Please check it out at a store near you!

Never. We place pixels by hand in this house.

Coming this month, the shocking conclusion in Atsushi Kaneko’s SEARCH AND DESTROY VOL. 3! Get your pre-orders in wherever there are books!

Psyched to see that the Italian edition of VEIL by Kotteri took home a major prize at Lucca in Italy this past weekend: Best Series!

Find the closest shop around you to buy the best product in the world: comics!

Just discovered findyourcomic.store. It even works in Japan! We've been promo-ing the Comic Shop Locator on the podcast since the beginning, but with Diamond imploding (they owned that site) this might be a good replacement. What do you all think?

We're not doing EVOL before anyone asks. ;)

Love Village Vanguard Exciting Book Store. For reasons...