CLAMP profiled in New York Times

CLAMP. I hate CLAMP. I loathe them. Everything they shell out can be summed up by that one picture up there. However, it would seem the New York Times doesn’t hate CLAMP. Today’s New York Times has an article profiling and interviewing CLAMP. The article is by Charles Solomon, and can be read here . You might need to log in to view the article. Hit the jump in case you’re too lazy for that, to view the entire write-up. The name Clamp may sound odd and unfamiliar to Western ears, but this four-woman studio ranks among the most successful creators of manga, or graphic novels, in Japan and the United States. Over the last 17 years these women — Satsuki Igarashi, Apapa Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Ageha Ohkawa — have produced 22 popular manga series, many of which have been adapted to animation, including “X,â€� “Chobitsâ€� and “Cardcaptor Sakura,â€� all available on DVD in the United States. “Clamp have been an integral part of the manga ex...