Starting the week off right

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Good news for yaoi fans: The website for Drama Queen’s global BL anthology, Rush, is up. (Via Love Manga.)

Why do artists hate having their work stolen? Telophase counts the ways on her Tokyopop blog. This is very timely not only because of what goes on on the Tokyopop site, but also because of the Mangaquake incident last week, in which an artist discovered his work on the cover of a small-press magazine.

Simon Jones at Icarus Publishing (warning: top banner NSFW) has some thoughts on the recent ComiPress article about yaoi fans influencing (Japanese) Shonen Jump.

At the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wilma Jandoc looks at three franchises that have been made into manga: Harlequin romances, Nancy Drew, and Star Trek.

At Comics-and-more, Manga Monday revolves around a title that’s new to me, Alien Nine. And at The Star of Malaysia, reviewer Cheeky Monkey takes on The Enchanter.

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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2 Responses to Starting the week off right

  1. ChunHyang72 says:
    August 29, 2006 at 6:17 pm

    The link to Wilma Jandoc’s article wasn’t working, but I was able to find it through a Google search: American fiction franchises adopt manga influences. I didn’t realize that Harlequin was using magenta ink for the interior artwork and dialogue… ugh and double ugh. I hope they’re not substituting hearts for dots over the i’s…

  2. Brigid says:
    August 29, 2006 at 7:03 pm

    Thanks ChunHyang72. I fixed the link.

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