Muggy day linkblogging

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers discuss their picks of the week.

John Jakala examines the significance of Viz’s announcement that it will be releasing many of its books digitally the same day as print—and he has some questions, too.

Erica Friedman posts the latest edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu.

Jiro Taniguchi’s A Zoo in Winter has been nominated for the Ignatz Award for best graphic novel.

At Blog of the North Star (NSFW image at the link), Milo discusses X-Western Flash, a cowboy manga by the creator of Gon: “X-Western Flash is only three volumes long and filled with more gobsmacking moments than every licensed manga I’ve read in the last three years combined. It’s gorgeous, unpredictable, offensive, and hilarious.”

Reviews: It’s Bookshelf Briefs time again at Manga Bookshelf. Ash Brown stacks up a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 10 of Black Butler (Kuriousity)
Kristin on vols. 40 and 41 of Bleach (Comic Attack)
Erica Friedman on vol. 16 of Hayate x Blade (Okazu)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 20 of Kaze Hikaru (Kuriousity)
Sean Gaffney on Sakuran (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 7 of Ultimo (The Comic Book Bin)
Anna on vols. 1-4 of Walkin’ Butterfly (Manga Report)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 19 of xxxHoLiC (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)

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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2 Responses to Muggy day linkblogging

  1. Rij says:
    August 15, 2012 at 9:52 am

    There’s a typo, an extra h in http, in the link for X-Western Flash.

    Thanks for the roundup yet again!

  2. Brigid Alverson says:
    August 15, 2012 at 9:57 am

    Fixed! Thank you!

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