The new PW Comics Week is up, with a review of Abandon the Old in Tokyo, the latest from manga-ka Yoshihiro Tatsumi of The Push Man fame; an interview with Bettina Kurkoski, whose global manga Loki will be released soon by Tokyopop; a preview of Re: Play, another Tokyopop global manga; and the news, in the Briefly section, that Yaoi Press has picked up licenses for three graphic novels from Italy. Now that’s what I call global manga!
Thanks to David Welsh for the heads-up that Dirk Deppey interviews Dallas Middaugh in The Comics Journal this month.
Newsarama spends a minute on manga, which is more than they usually do, and they manage to squeeze in quite a few reviews in that time.
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.
“We found the Tenjou Tenge controversy to be very instructive: The readers want the original work, as the author intended it to be read. When we’d earlier found ourselves in a similar position with Negima, we listened to the fans, released the series with an older age-rating and shrink-wrap, and we’ve done just fine with them.”
Even if CMX doesn’t listen, Del Rey does… The last thing I want from the Ten Ten controversy is for the sales of Air Gear to bury Ten Ten.