At this point, there have been so many reactions to the shutdown of CMX that rather than rounding up the comments, I’ll just round up the roundups: I posted on the reactions at Robot 6, and the Good Comics for Kids bloggers pulled together a quick roundtable on the topic as well. Deb Aoki quotes some of the voices in the discussion (including mine), and Simon Jones (possibly NSFW) has a handy annotated list.
And returning to last week’s news, at Publishers Weekly, I talked to insiders and bloggers about the significance of the Viz layoffs.
Gottsu-Iiyan points out that the proposed censorship laws in Tokyo have nothing to do with what foreigners think about Japanese manga, because the Japanese don’t care what foreigners think of them.
Black Lagoon creator Rei Hiroe will be an official guest of honor at Anime Expo.
Heidi MacDonald is giving away some old review copies, starting with Junji Ito’s Museum of Terror, at The Beat.
Reviews
Deb Aoki on The Box Man (About.com)
Kelakagand on vol. 5 of Fushigi Yugi (VizBig edition) (Kelakagandy’s Ramblings)
Andre on Genghis Khan (Kuriousity)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 8 of Gin Tama (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Gon (Manga Xanadu)
Sean Gaffey on vol. 6 of Otomen (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 5 of Phantom Dream (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1-4 of The Times of Botchan (The Manga Critic)
Snow Wildsmith on vol. 1 of Twin Spica (ICv2)
Andre on The World I Create (Kuriousity)