Boxing day blues

Posted on December 26, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

I was making rather merry last night, but I actually have to go to work this morning. I expect a quiet day—who calls the mayor the day after Christmas?—but I can’t blog from work. So here’s a quick roundup of recent posts.

ComiPress translates two tantalizing articles; one is titled “The Reason I Quit as a Manga Editor,” and the other is an overview of the Chinese manga industry.

At the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Jason Yadao looks over the year in anime and manga.

Ed Chavez, who is en route to Comiket as I write this, continues his end-of-the-year report cards with a look at Blu and relays a rumor that Vertical has licensed Andromeda Stories.

Pata lists possible manga gifts for well-known Christmas figures.

David Welsh reviews Line, by the author of Anne Freaks. Dave Ferraro loves Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, as does everyone who has reviewed it so far. Mangamaniaccafe checks out vol. 1 of Sweety. And Slightly Biased Manga has reviews of Hanakimi 14 and 15, vol. 16 of Bleach, and the Harlequin Violet title Blind Date.

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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One Response to Boxing day blues

  1. Tina Anderson says:
    December 26, 2006 at 1:33 pm

    I’ve tried to join the BLU forum, time and again, and each time it just refuses to remember my username and password [heaven forbid I do it!] and wants me to sign up new everytime I try to log in. I gave up after try #4. 0_0.

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