Highlights, roundups, and a trip back through time

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

Lissa Pattillo ticks off her favorite manga of 2011 in a number of different categories.

Alex Hoffman rounds up the manga news highlights of the year (as well as the Alex Hoffman news highlights—spoiler: He got a degree and got married) at Manga Widget.

Sean Gaffney rounds up the links from the final day of the Sailor Moon MMF.

Mike Toole jumps into the wayback machine and takes a look at the early, early days of manga.

Job Board: Viz Media is taking applications for internships.

News from Japan: Jormungand is coming to an end in the February issue of Sunday GX, but manga-ka Keitarō Takahashi already has a new series in the works. Switch creator Naked Ape (Saki Otoh) and Wolf God manga-ka Ai Tenkawa are working on a school comedy series, Kisshō7 -seven-, that launched in Monthly Comic Zero-Sum last week.

Reviews

Kristin on vol. 5 of The Story of Saiunkoku (Comic Attack)

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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