Comic Techno, a monthly magazine from Deleter that contains doujinshi information and useful manga-drawing techniques, will cease publication after the release of issue 172, on sale 3/15. According to Deleter, one of the reason behind Comic Techno's discontinuation is due to the skyrocketing price of oil and other goods.

Source: Ultimatum

Canned Dogs is reporting that Core Magazine, one of the biggest adult manga publisher in Japan, is currently looking for blogs to review their newly released products:

Adult book and magazine publisher Core magazine has announced that they are now looking for approximately 50 blogs that are willing to receive newly released books from Core magazine over a 6 month period and review them.

According to MangaCast, DrMaster has licensed the manga Kage kara Mamoru! by Madara Sai and Achi Taro, and will release the title this June under the title Mamoru The Shadow Protector.

From BdZoom comes the top 15 "Bandes Dessinées" (French-style comic books) for the week ending 1/27:

1. Astérix (12)
2. Les Schtroumpfs (26)
3. Lanfeust des étoiles (7)
4. Jeremiah (28)
5. L'histoire secrète (10)
6. XIII (19)
7. XIII (18)
8. Merlin (9)
9. W.E.S.T. (3)
10. Bunker (2)
11. Canardo (17)
12. La quête de l'oiseau du temps : avant la quête (2)
13. Le complexe du chimpanzé (2)
14. Les femmes en blanc (30)
15. Lou ! (4)

From About.com:Manga comes an interview with Katsushi Ota, editor of Kodansha's Faust magazine, who appeared as Del Rey Manga's featured guest at the 2007 New York Anime Festival:

Q: So how did it happen that you and Del Rey Manga decided to bring Faust to America? Did you approach them or did they approach you?

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According to the AoD forum, fliers distributed at Shueisha's Jump Festa 08 indicate Shueisha's plan to release Shaman King Perfect Edition, a re-release of Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King that will feature a never before seen ending. ANN has more:

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A round up of the new comic release list and views for the week of February 6th 2008:

• ComicList: ComicList for 02/06/2008
• MangaCast: New Manga Release List ~ Feb 6, 2008
• Manga Recon: Weekly Recon, 2/6/08
• theOtaku: New Manga Releases
• Precocious Curmudgeon: Upcoming 2/6/2008

From Del Rey's Editorial Associate Tricia Narwani comes an article talking about his experience with comics:

I actually came to comics pretty late–I didn’t start reading them seriously until I was in high school–and it happened quite by accident. Until then, I was pretty much just an all-purpose aesthete and all-around geek, a voracious reader of everything from William Gibson to William Blake. In a strange way, though, all this reading was exactly what prepared me to fall hard for comics on that fateful day.

Broccoli Books has relaunched its blog with a new theme:

The Broccoli Books Blog has changed its look nyo. Now you can see who is posting what nyo. Expect a new header image from Dejiko-sama and her crew every month nyo!

February comics top 10 in the U.S. according to PWCW.

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2. Naruto, Volume 27
3. Naruto, Volume 26
4. Naruto, Volume 25
5. Naruto, Volume 24
6. Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
7. Fruits Basket, Volume 18
8. Naruto, Volume 23
9. Full Metal Alchemist, Volume 15
10. Black Cat, Volume 12