Comic-Con is over, and the manga industry has rolled over and is smoking a cigarette right now, so news is slim. There’s plenty of interesting reading on the web, though.
I just discovered Eastern Standard, which is a wiki run by Joe Iglesias and Andrew Cunningham, the translator of Boogiepop, and I can’t believe I’ve lived this long without it. Check out the profile of Kiyu, “the god of cancelled manga,” for some true weirdness. The site also features reviews of untranslated manga, for those who fear there are no new worlds to conquer.
JP Meyer asks international manga fans whether they seek out English-language manga. The responses, which come from all over the globe, are pretty interesting.
In his Flipped column, David Welsh looks at three comics from Seven Seas, which is starting to become a verrry interesting publisher.
Comics-and-More introduces a new feature: Manga Monday. They start out with a full slate of reviews of Domu: A Child’s Dream, Planetes, Nana, and more.
At Crocodile Caucus, Lyle also has a new feature: He’s going to review the manga preview chapters in Shojo Beat. He starts with Beauty Pop, and it already sounds like we have a winner.
“Comic-Con is over, and the manga industry has rolled over and is smoking a cigarette right now, so news is slim. There’s plenty of interesting reading on the web, though.”
Whoa…that comment itself stands on its own.
But do not forget about Otakon. It’s the last chance this summer for remaining companies to wow us. (In two weeks or less…?)
Most companies did rather well at AX. Some did better than others at SDCC. So the remaining others can redeem themselves at Otakon, which should hold us over until the new manga con in October.
P.S. – All those links you provided were great. I bookmarked them all to read everyday. :)
Hey, thanks for the kind words! We’re not going to run out of bizarre marginalia any time soon…
Good! Your site is really refreshing, and as a non-Japanese-speaker, I appreciate the glimpses into the other side.