MangaBlogCast is up!

Posted on October 28, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Check out the latest edition of the MangaBlogCast at MangaCast. This week, we take on the power list, direct market vs. chains, and panty shots. Here are the links:

ICv2’s Ten Most Powerful People in Manga
Commentary:
MangaBlog
Precocious Curmudgeon
Icarus Comics
Love Manga’s first attempt last summer
Comics Worth Reading (includes the Next Ten on ICv2’s list)
Precocious Curmudgeon’s ten most creatively influential publishers list
MangaBlog’s ten most powerful bloggers list

Running the numbers

ICv2’s top ten manga properties
Discussion of sales at MangaBlog
Direct market sales figures for September
Dramacon 2 debuts at number 4 on BookScan

Bleach benefits from the Cartoon Network effect

Tanoshimi leaves thong unaltered in UK edition of Air Gear

Manga scholars discuss boxing funerals, fan subculture

Viz to sell Bleach merch “exclusively” in chain stores
Retailer objects
Deppey takes him down

Ken Akamatsu chat

Yaoi-Con

Yaoi Suki’s Yaoi-Con page
New titles and cover scans from Love Manga
New OEL titles from Tina Anderson’s Tokyopop blog

New manga reference sites

Google manga directory
Comipedia

Incoming

Ode to Kirihito
Museum of Terror, vol. 3
Oh My Goddess, vol. 4 *** release date is now January 2007
Style School, vol. 1 *** oops, don’t bother, release date isn’t till February 2007
Penguin Revolution, 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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