More on Digital’s print hiatus; what girls like about Shonen Jump

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

I looked a bit deeper into Digital Manga’s announcement to suspend print publication for six months at Robot 6, and Alex Hoffman has some thoughts at Manga Widget as well.

Here’s a treat to kick off the weekend: Shaenon Garrity counts down five badass shoujo manga as guest contributor to the House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

Tony Yao has an interesting piece up this morning with data from a recent article in The Nikkei Shimbun about the gender balance of Shonen Jump readers and what that means to the contents of the magazine. Good stuff!

The Manga Bookshelf team take a critical look at next week’s new releases in print and at JManga.

The next Manga Moveable Feast is a Thanksgiving dinner, and host Matt Blind issues the call for contributions.

Reviews

Kristin on vol. 2 of Jiu Jiu (Comic Attack)
David Gromer on vols. 3 and 4 of Maximum Ride (Graphic Novel Reporter)
David Gromer on vols. 1 and 2 of Negima (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 13 of Neon Genesis Evangelion (The Comic Book Bin)
David Gromer on vol. 3 of No Longer Human (Graphic Novel Reporter)
David Gromer on vol. 7 of Omamori Himori (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 4 of One Piece (Blogcritics)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 10 of Rosario + Vampire, Season II (The Comic Book Bin)
David Gromer on vol. 1 of Soulless (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Strobe Edge (Kuriousity)

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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One Response to More on Digital’s print hiatus; what girls like about Shonen Jump

  1. Margaret says:
    November 18, 2012 at 10:03 pm

    Brigid, here’s a link to my two-part *Sequential Tart* article on Moyoco Anno at New York Comic Con. (It’s actually a link to Part 2, which has a link back to Part 1 in the introduction.)

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