Found on the referrer logs: Bento Physics, a brand-new blog that aims to take a fresh approach to anime and manga. It starts off strong with posts on Ouran High School Host Club and yaoi manga.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin takes a look at a couple of manga that weren’t blockbuster successes, and explains why. Also, a peek at internet reactions to their article on ADV manga, or rather, the lack thereof.
At Love Manga, David Taylor comments on the latest Flipped.
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.
Hey thanks so much for the positively phrased shout-out. Only four days in and already one of our favorite blogs has mentioned us. That’s quite nice, I say. :D
My pleasure! I like to see in-depth commentary—the more, the merrier.
BTW, I laughed at your description of MangaBlog—I’m working on changing the URL to something a little more grown-up.
On ANN forums, there seems to be a significant amount of people that stand by ADV after years of ADV kicking sand in their face. Every few months some semi newbie innocently asks — where’s my ADV book? They tell them to be patient. They’ve grown accustomed to being treated poorly.
Then of course, there are those who gave up and are un-willing to spend a nickle for any ADV series. Like me.