David Welsh devotes this week’s Flipped column to an interview with librarian and manga expert Robin Brenner, of No Flying, No Tights fame.
On the Tokyopop site, editor Lillian DP runs through the list of what she’s working on now and what’s coming up.
For those who prefer to stay in the present, Love Manga has this week’s manga and a discussion of whether June manga is taking over DMP.
Ed Chavez has some manga movie reviews at the MangaCast.
Kotaku has a video of a woman who is an avid cosplayer; she seems quite shy when she’s at home with hubby and baby, but then she puts on her costume and … va va VOOM! It’s in Japanese, but the announcer’s tone of voice says it all.
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.
