Monday updates

MangaCast continues its SDCC coverage with a podcast of the translation panel. Here’s the lineup:

William Flanagan (xxxHolic), Charles McCarter (Ghost in the Shell: SAC), Jonathan Tarbox (Angel Sanctuary), Nobby Matsuo (Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked), and Jake Forbes (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Don’t miss it. And if you’re intrigued, a commenter observes that Seven Seas is looking for translators.

Tina Anderson blogs about doujinshi. Her post includes a handy breakdown of categories for those who are still learning the landscape.

The press releases are starting to catch up with the announcements at AnimeExpo and SDCC. Love Manga has the scoop on the new Seven Seas licenses and ICv2 has more on the latest Del Rey announcements.

Yaoi alert: A few days ago, David Welsh expressed some doubt about a new title from BLU, Gerard & Jacques, which features an unequal relationship between a wealthy older man and a younger, poorer one. The debate continues in a followup post, with opposing opinions (read the comments) from two readers. Meanwhile, Anime Bento pans Jazz as being more rape than romance.

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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