MangaBlogCast notes

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Sorry I’m a bit late with the liner notes this week. Here they are!

Anime Expo

Mangacast’s take on AX

Irresponsible Pictures on the CLAMP appearance
Transcript of CLAMP appearance

Go!Comi blog (pictures of Mick Takeuchi’s appearance)
Discussion of new Go!Comi titles at Love Manga

Irresponsible Pictures on the Dark Horse panel
Ian Brill contrasts the Dark Horse and Shojo Beat panels

ADV gets a new investor
Tokyopop picks up some ADV titles

In other news

Manga makes it into the dictionary

Two French manga fans try to run away to Japan

Ponent Mon licenses Disappearance Diary

CBR interviews Megatokyo creator Fred Gallagher

Brigid’s Top Ten for Summer
(not in any particular order)

Dogby Walks Alone
Captain Nemo
Chikyu Misaki
Monster
Dramacon
Death Note
Sexy Voice and Robo
Ultra Maniac
The Dreaming
Yotsuba&!

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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