MangaBlogCast: Keeping the world safe for manga

Posted on August 30, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

The latest edition of MangaBlogCast is up for your listening pleasure.

Art theft confidential

The Tokyopop website
Mangaquake editors get a nasty surprise
Telophase explains why art theft hurts artists

Make mine manga

Graphic novels outsell pamphlet-style comics for the first time since last November.
ICv2 reports
Love Manga interprets
USA Today Booklist
The Grosse Adventures

Selling manga to the Japanese

Is Tokyopop exporting global manga to Japan?

Chris Arrant interviews Takeshi Miyazawa, who is heading to Japan to try his luck as a manga-ka.

And now, a word from our editors

Tokyopop editors try their hand at blogging.

Photo of Rob Tokar with a bag on his head
Lillian Diaz-Pryzbyl
CEO Stu Levy
Our fearless guide, ChunHyang72

Comiket week

MangaCast, home of the Comiket podcasts
Photos at Go!Comi blog
Wired on doujinshi
Simon Jones on why doujinshi won’t catch on here

Scanlation nation

Bandai to fansubbers: Drop dead
Dirk Deppey explains why the rest of us should care

CMX: Anybody home?

ICv2 interview with Paul Levitz (part three, where he talks about CMX)
MangaBlog notes an omission (actually, two)
The anonymous “Ask CMX” page

Real men read Shoujo Beat

ANN posters say boys can read girls’ books
Yaoi audience causes problems for Japanese SJ

Incoming…

From Del Rey:
ES, vol. 2
Negima, vol. 11
School Rumble, vol. 3
Suzuka, vol. 1

Others:
Iron Wok Jan, vol. 19
Anne Freaks, vol. 3
Kurosage Corpse Delivery Service, vol. 1

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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4 Responses to MangaBlogCast: Keeping the world safe for manga

  1. Jack says:
    August 30, 2006 at 11:39 pm

    In “Selling manga to the Japanese” I said it should be flipped when I obviously meant “un-flipped”! Whoops!

    I think this was our best and most entertaining episode — everybody check it out if you haven’t already!

  2. Dirk Deppey says:
    August 31, 2006 at 1:47 am

    Nitpicky comment: It’s pronounced “DEP-ee,” not “de-PEY” On behalf of the League of People with Funny Names, thank you.

  3. Brigid says:
    August 31, 2006 at 6:28 am

    Sorry, Dirk, and duly noted. It’s a hazard of living in the world of the written word. I belong to that league too—no one has ever spelled my first name correctly on the first try.

    Brigid (Bridget, Brigit, Bridgid, Brigette, Bridig, Bright…)

  4. Jack says:
    August 31, 2006 at 8:03 am

    Sorry Dirk! My last name is often butchered too!

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