Tuesday morning

Posted on June 6, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Lone Wolf and Cub creator Kazuo Koike will be appearing at San Diego Comic Con.

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin profiles Tomoko Taniguchi, the manga-ka who mixes sweet romance and heavy metal manga like “Aquarium” and “Together Forever.”

Telophase wants to do some manga/manwha comparisons and is looking for examples.

ICv2 brings us up to date on plans for anime and manga movies. The one I’m looking forward to is Pet Shop of Horrors, which reminded me of Twilight Zone (the original TV show) when I read it. Most people are probably more interested in the Neon Genesis Evangelion movie, which is still in the financing stages. And the Priest movie, which is set to start shooting in October.

Just in time for New Comics Day, MangaCast reviews vol. 4 of Del Rey’s Gacha Gacha (not to be confused with Tokyopop’s Gatcha Gacha o_O).

At it can’t all be about manga… Cathy notices that manga seem to be printed all the way into the gutter lately, forcing her to crack the spine to read all the text.

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 Tuesday morning

  1. youkosiren says:
    June 7, 2006 at 11:02 pm

    I will admit that I can spot most manhwa/manhua and I -know- it isn’t manga, though they get more similar all the time. HK manhua is really more akin to American superhero comics in terms of how detailed (& how musclebound!) it can get, but overall I’ve noticed that manga tends to be drawn with bolder lines than manhwa & manhua.

    I used to confuse Gacha Gacha and Gatcha Gacha all the time…

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