MangaBlogCast #5 is up!

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Yes, the latest edition of MangaBlogCast is now available at MangaCast for your listening pleasure. This week’s edition includes all the latest news and a commentary on shoujo manga by yours truly.

Here are the links for this edition:

Rurouni Kenshin manga-ka Nobuhiro Watsuki will appear at SDCC

MangaNEXT: A con of our own

ICv2 Retailer’s Guide
Top Ten Manga Properties
Love Manga speculates on the most powerful people in manga
ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Committee

Plagiarism at RSoM-UK?
Sweatdrop forum discussion
Tokyopop forum discussion
Love Manga summarizes it all

CMX responds to Tenjho Tenge criticism

Japanese publishers reprint vintage manga
Suiho Tagawa manga at The Beat

Looking ahead—new releases
Air Gear
Q-ko-chan
Fools Gold
Dragon Head
Antique Bakery
Berserk
Project X: Cup Noodle

Commentary: Feminism and Shoujo Manga—Gender or Genre?
Rachel Nabors on the lack of women’s comics
Kalinara on the mediocrity of shoujo heroines
Queenie Chan on the question of genre
Robin Brenner’s No Flying, No Tights
Love Manga’s take
David Welsh lists eight non-mediocre shoujo heroines

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 MangaBlogCast #5 is up!

  1. David Welsh says:
    July 20, 2006 at 3:05 pm

    Ooooh, new additions to the Great Graphic Novels for Teens nomination list! And many of my new favorites are there!

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