MangaBlogCast is #7 is up!

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

After a two-week hiatus, our latest podcast is up at the MangaCast. I’m leading off this week with a little philosophical discussion of Japanese versus global manga. Then Jack takes it away and fills in the week’s news in his own inimitable style. Here are links for the stories we discuss:

Otakon
Discussion at Love Manga
Con reports at Anime News Network

Del Rey in the UK
Tanoshimi website
Discussion at MangaBlog
(with links to other posts)

Viz takes the train

Manga style

Help wanted
Translation jobs at Seven Seas
Tina Anderson’s sample submission package
Call for manga art

Tokyopop website interview

Manga overtake floppies

Global manga gets more global

Musical chairs
Editorial shuffle at Tokyopop
More from Rivkah
New marketing director at Del Rey

Manga opens up a cold case file

Along came a spider…

Star Trek: No sweat

Incoming…
Return to Labyrinth
Omukae Desu
Mitsukazu Mihara’s The Embalmer
Drifting Classroom

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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