MangaBlogCast #18 is up!

Posted on November 11, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Yes, it’s time for another edition of MangaBlogCast. Here are the links:

Yaoi on Top

Yaoi article by Eliza Strickland
Simon Jones defends individual tastes

CPM Rebounds

CPM story at PWCW
Flashback to CPM’s financial troubles

Kurt Hassler’s new job

Coverage on The Beat
News story at PWCW
Sokora Refugees creator page

DC and Marvel make Bookscan top ten

The Bleach bounce

Sales figures from ICv2
More analysis from Precocious Curmudgeon

Book sales up, magazines down in Japan

Seven Seas announces yuri line
Erica politely points out that ALC was there first

Tokyopop resets online manga

Tezuka show opens in Australia
Review of Tezuka art book

Mangaka America debuts
Newsarama interviews Tania Del Rio

Incoming…

Death Note, vol. 8
Hikaru no Go, vol. 8
Prince of Tennis, vol. 16
Ranma 1/2, vol. 36(!)
Red River, vol. 15
W-Juliet, vol. 13
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne, vol. 6
Gakuen Heaven, vol. 1
Densha Otoko
Omukae Desu, vol. 2
Yakitate!! JaPan, vol. 2

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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