GTO preview, new yuri, and scary shoujo

Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s new all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.

Good news for yuri lovers: JManga and ALC Publishing have formed a partnership to publish the yuri manga Poor Poor Lips on the JManga site.

Comics Alliance has an exclusive 20-page preview of GTO: 14 Days in Shonan, due out soon from Vertical.

At Graphic Novel Reporter, John Hogan talks to producer Avi Arad about his new manga, The Innocent (published by Yen Press)

Deb Aoki has thrown open the floor to nominations for her 2012 About.com Manga Readers’ Choice Awards.

Jason Thompson takes a look at the autobiographical manga Doing Time in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

At The Manga Critic, Kate Dacey takes a peek at DJ Benny B’s manga library and also looks at some new manhwa available via Dark Horse Digital.

Manga Bookshelf has a new columnist: Philip of Eeper’s Choice, who will cross the gender divide to write a column titled Shoujo I’m Scared Of. And he jumps right in with a look at Sailor Moon in the very first column.

Erica Friedman takes a peek inside the pink-and-bubbly covers of the shoujo magazine Ribon.

Three Steps Over Japan, meanwhile, takes the boys’ side with a look at Weekly Shonen Jump.

Reviews: The review team catches up with some ongoing series at About Heroes.

Chris Kirby on vol. 1 of The Betrayal Knows My Name (The Fandom Post)
Danica Davidson on vol. 2 of The Betrayal Knows My Name (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Kristin on Crimson Cross (Comic Attack)
TSOTE on Gamble Fish (Three Steps Over Japan)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 10 of Genshiken (Japanese edition) (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Anna on vol. 7 of Kamisama Kiss (Manga Report)
Connie on vol. 2 of Mister Mistress (Slightly Biased Manga)
Danica Davidson on vol. 4 of My Girlfriend’s a Geek (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Sweetpea616 on Revolutionary Girl Utena (Organization Anti-Social Geniuses)
Connie on vol. 5 of Sakura Hime (Slightly Biased Manga)
Chris Kirby on Tesoro (The Fandom Post)
Connie on Tonight’s Take-Out Night (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kayden L on vol. 2 of Wandering Son (Okazu)
Connie on vol. 4 of Wild Adapter (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 17 of xxxHoLiC (Slightly Biased Manga)

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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