Monday eye-openers

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

John Jakala rounds up bloggers’ reactions to Tintin Pantoja’s proposal for a shoujo version of Wonder Woman, and they are overwhelmingly positive. If everyone who praised it pledged to buy a copy of the finished book, DC would be fools not to publish it.

Newsarama talks to Joshua Elder about volume 2 of his Mail Order Ninja.

Deutsche Mangaka has the latest news from Tokyopop’s German newsletter and links to a links to and translates a preview of Evergrey, an upcoming Tokyopop title from Lime Studios. I picked up a couple of Lime’s doujinshi at MangaNEXT and was really impressed with their work.

At MangaCast, Ed checks out the new Rush blog and likes what he sees—including a new title. Also: A look at DMP’s books for December, which include an Edu-Manga about Albert Einstein and volume 3 of the 18+ title Robot. Now that’s range! Speaking of Robot, check out DMP’s latest contest.

Its Aoi House: The Music Video! (Via Floating Sakura.) Bouncy pop with lots of G-rated fanservice, if you can imagine such a thing.

They’re making a list, they’re checking it twice: June Manga is having a Christmas contest. Also, the editors clarify the nomenclature of the Close the Last Door series.

ICv2 will hold a graphic novel conference at the New York Comic-Con; Viz has signed on as a co-sponsor.

At ADD Theater, Shannon puts in a word for variety.

I guess this is the wave of the future: A company called MovieSeer has signed a contract to deliver Tokyopop content to mobile networks in Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore. “Content” seems to be a broad term that encompasses manga, audio and video files, and games.

Reviews: Pauline Wong at the Star of Malaysia reads Night of the Beasts with a sense of deja vu and Kadzuki enjoys RA.I At Active Anime, Christopher Seaman finds volume 2 of CMX’s Densha Otoko “electrifying” and Blake Waymire enjoys Boogiepop Dual, which I’m reading right now. And at Anime on DVD, Matthew Alexander has only good things to say about Any Way I Want It, not just the content but the print quality as well, wondering why the big publishers can’t be as consistent.

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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3 Responses to Monday eye-openers

  1. Jack says:
    December 4, 2006 at 1:04 pm

    Damn that Jakala! He made me realize the one thing wrong with my anti-WW manga argument. The pure novelty and fun of it!

    I guess I was centering my comment on that if DC doesn’t have leadership on how to develop manga, the final product would be edited to crap, marketed/presented wrong or any number of mis-steps.

    They have a wonderful anthology called “Bizarro World” that actually spoofs their universe very nicely. I love these to death so who am I to say a manga WW wouldn’t work? It’s better to try and to learn from mistakes I suppose than never trying at all.

    http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=4959

  2. John Jakala says:
    December 4, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    The Bizarro World books are a great example of how I think the manga Wonder Woman book could function: A fun, self-contained take on an enduring icon. Thanks for bolstering my argument, Jack! ;-)

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