Digital Manga announced ten new titles at Anime Expo, and they have also commissioned Wedding Peach creator Nao Yazawa to draw an original story for their eManga website. Gia Manry and Daniella Orihuela-Gruber were both at the panel and have more detail, and The Haisho is liveblogging the show. (Via Active Anime.) Deb Aoki has today’s Anime Expo manga highlights, including a Tokyopop panel and a how-to-draw session courtesy of Eigomanga.
I posted my notes from the Best Manga You’re Not Reading panel at Robot 6, as well as Martha Cornog’s notes and the picks of the rest of the panel.
Sean Gaffney gets a jump on everyone else and looks at next week’s new comics, and Kristin takes a look at the manga in the July Previews at Comic Attack.
So, being out of town and all, I totally missed David Welsh’s Adopt A Manga contest, in which he asked his readers to suggest a manga for Vertical to license. The results make for interesting reading, though, as well as some wishful thinking. Get busy, Ed! David also reruns his column on Suppli and discusses his tastes in comics reading, which he describes as “eclectic”—who knew that could be such a controversial term?
Translator Tomo Kimura takes a look at some serious Black Butler cosplay outfits in Shinjuku (part 1, part 2)
Blogging about blogging: Congratulations to Matt Blind on his second anniversary at his current home, Rocket Bomber. And farewell to Sadie Mattox, who is folding up her tent at Extremely Graphic as she moves on to a new and more time-intensive job.
News from Japan: Manga-ka Sakamoto Mimei is being sued by her doctor’s wife for having an affair with the doctor, who was treating her for collagen disease. Mimei says it’s all a big misunderstanding.
Reviews: Julie Opipari talks about one of her favorite series, Skip Beat, for her latest Your Manga Minute column at Blog@Newsarama. At Otaku Ohana, Jason Yadao starts his Color of Earth trilogy review with some compare-and-contrast. Other reviews of note:
Kristin on vol. 2 of Arata the Legend (Comic Attack)
Sesho on vol. 2 of Biomega (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Greg McElhatton on Black Blizzard (Read About Comics)
Matt Blind on The Color of Earth (Rocket Bomber)
Todd Douglass on Darker than Black (Anime Maki)
Erica Friedman on vol. 6 of Hayate x Blade (Okazu)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Hirari (Okazu)
Erica Friedman on Mizu-iro Cinema (Okazu)
Greg Hackmann on vol. 3 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (Mania.com)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 2 of Nightschool (Panel Patter)
Erica Friedman on Orange Yellow (Okazu)
Miriam Gibson on vol. 1 of Pandora Hearts (Manga Life)
Erica Friedman on Shoujo Holic (Okazu)
Sesho on vol. 10 of Sorcerer Hunters (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews)
Lori Henderson on vol. 2 of Tena on S-String (Manga Xanadu)
Martin on vols. 1 and 2 of What a Wonderful World (Mono no Aware)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of ZE (The Comic Book Bin)