The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga
{{Short description|2006 book by ILYA}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
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| author = ILYA
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| language = English
| subject = manga
| genre = Encyclopaedia
| publisher = {{flagicon|United States}} Carroll & Graf Publishers (defunct), Running Press (current)
{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Constable & Robinson
| pub_date = 3 December 2006
| media_type = Print (Paperback)
| pages = 512 pp (first edition)
| isbn = 978-0-7867-1838-2
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga is edited by ILYA. The book contains works by a variety of artists. The first book was released in North America by Running Press on 3 December 2006.{{cite book|title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga (Paperback)|isbn=0786718382|author1=Ilya|date=4 December 2006}} It was licensed by Carroll & Graf Publishers before it was phased out by parent company, Perseus Books Group.{{Cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6441065.html |title=Perseus Folds Two Imprints, Sells Another |last=Milliot |first=Jim |date=5 October 2007 |publisher=Publishers Weekly |access-date=6 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091216022110/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6441065.html |archive-date=16 December 2009 |url-status=dead }} The second book was released in the United Kingdom by Constable & Robinson on 25 October 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&book=the_mammoth_book_of_best_new_manga_2_9781845296421_paperback|title= The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 2 |publisher=Constable & Robinson|access-date=6 December 2009}} The third book was released in the United Kingdom by Constable & Robinson on 6 November 2008 and in North America by Running Press on 1 December 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.constablerobinson.com/?section=books&book=the_mammoth_book_of_best_new_manga_3_9781845298272_paperback|title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 3|publisher=Constable & Robinson|access-date=6 December 2009}}{{cite book|title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 3 (Paperback)|isbn=978-0762433995|author1=Ilya|date=2 December 2008}}
Reception
Manga Life's Kelvin Green comments that the "eclectic nature of the book is one of its strengths".{{Cite web |url=http://www.mangalife.com/reviews/TheMammothBookofBestNewMan.htm |title=The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga v1 |last=Green |first=Kelvin |work=Manga Life |publisher=Silver Bullet Comics |access-date=6 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111182413/http://www.mangalife.com/reviews/TheMammothBookofBestNewMan.htm |archive-date=11 January 2007 |url-status=dead }} ComicMix's Andrew Wheeler comments on the Mammoth Book of Best New Manga series about how most of the work are "nearly all British and that none of them are, oh, Japanese" despite having manga in its title.{{Cite web |url=http://www.comicmix.com/news/2007/12/28/manga-friday-look-a-mammoth/|title=Manga Friday: Look! A Mammoth! |last=Wheeler |first=Andrew |date=28 December 2007 |work=ComicMix |publisher=ComicMix LLC |access-date=6 December 2009 }} Paul Gravett comments on the diversity of the works in the second book that are "compiled from as far afield as Sweden and Thailand."{{Cite web |url=http://www.paulgravett.com/index.php/articles/article/make_mine_manga/ |title=Make Mine Manga: A Global Artform |last=Gravett |first=Paul |authorlink=Paul Gravett |work=Paul Gravett |access-date=6 December 2009 }} Dan Murphy from The Buffalo News commends the third book for doing "what it sets out to do and serves up a sampler platter of a variety of styles and forms."{{Cite web |url=http://www.buffalonews.com/incoming/article139343.ece |title=Animation style reflects Japan's warrior past |last=Murphy |first=Dan |date=1 February 2009 |publisher=The Buffalo News |access-date=17 December 2011 }}
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