Labor Day is over; time to pack away the beach towels and white shoes. It promises to be an interesting autumn, though, with lots of manga goodness coming our way. Here are some treats for the first day of school:
David Welsh’s Flipped column, aptly titled “Brain Food,” reviews two promising new series, Eternal Sabbath and Yakitate! Japan.
Would you like some curry with that? In the latest Manga Curry no Maki, Ed Chavez and my partner-in-podcast Jack Tse recap the summer cons, with some tart observations about how the publishers are doing. It’s a must-download!
History lesson: Tina Anderson gives a brief rundown on Bara, which is boys love for boys. Copiously illustrated.
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.
Back when Yakitate! Japan was on the air, there would be weekly promotion with a Japanese convience store chain where the bread of the week would be sold. Even the green turtle melon-pan. The kids LOVED it. Oh, I need a melon-pan right now… or perhaps an an-pan… Why can’t there be more Japanese bakeries in the US? Sigh…
i totally got the sensation of wanting to eat bread while reading it… and curry too as of vol 1!