MangaBlogCast #20 is up!

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Check it out at the MangaCast. Jack and I will be taking a short break after this but we’ll be back after the holidays with more podcast goodness. In the meantime, here are the liner notes for this week’s podcast:

Two million Furubas

A touch of Minx

Newsarama interview with Karen Berger
David Welsh on reinventing the wheel
Lengthy post at The Beat, with awesome comment thread

Rethinking Wonder Woman

John Jakala discovers Tintin Pantoja’s manga-ized Wonder Woman
Pantoja’s full pitch
Pantoja’s LJ post
Jakala’s followup post

Manga in the news

NYT article on CLAMP
Kethylia complains
Katherine Dacey-Tsuei weighs in
Jakala on Chast
Sarah White’s Deviant Art site

Holy Loli

Pata is not worried about Nymphet backlash
Dirk Deppey is not so sure
Floating Sakura posts some scans
Simon Jones: “Seven Seas isn’t publishing porn. We are.”
Dirk points out that panty shots of young girls are still in bad form around here

Witchblade: Reverse flip

Witchblade manga in two formats
Simon Jones comments

Incoming

Train Man (Viz), vol. 2
Because I’m The Goddess, vol. 2
Emma, vol. 2
Fruits Basket, vol. 15
Life, vol. 3
Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~, vol. 1
O-Parts Hunter, 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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