AX wrapups

Posted on July 5, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Ian Brill gets into the atmosphere at Anime Expo. It’s a great post, especially the part where he contrasts the Dark Horse and Shoujo Beat panels. Also, check out Brill’s AX coverage for PW Comics Week, which is chock full of interesting nuggets.

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez gives his take on AX, with a complete list and this analysis:

I guess in the end this was not a show about shojo, like the LA Times and AX noted. It really was a mature manga fest! Moreover, this con should be renamed YaoiExpo as BL titles dominated.

At Love Manga, David Taylor got ahead of me today and posted info on new license announcements from June.

Newsarama is all excited about Bandai licensing Witchblade Takeru

As the AX janitorial staff sweeps out the empty halls, LiveJournal posters take a moment to reflect and remember.

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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