Back to work!

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

But if you’re not quite ready, here’s some manga for you: Dark Horse has a preview up of the latest Blade of the Immortal. Also, check out the Central Park Media site, where they have put up some chapters and even entire books with kind of a freaky interface—you “turn” a virtual page.

ComiPress starts the year with a bouquet of offbeat stories: Images on Japanese phone cards may have been toned down so as not to corrupt the youngsters; the three major manga publishers took out full-page New Years’ ads in Japanese newspapers; and a Japanese blog claims that Japanese Shonen Jump is explicitly catering to its female readers.

ComiPress also translates an interview with Takehiko Inoue, the creator of the samurai manga Vagabond.

Mely lists her favorite one-shot manga of 2006, while Hazel offers more peeks at new manga series. I haven’t read any yet, but my older daughter really liked Mugen Spiral.

Translator Satsuma does some background research for an upcoming volume of Ghost Hunt.

New blog alert: Welcome to Comicsnob.com, which officially launched yesterday but has actually been up since October. It’s a nicely designed and well written review site with a generous proportion of manga in the mix. (Via Comics Worth Reading.)

The Takarazuka stage tradition was one of the seminal influences on Osamu Tezuka back in the day, and now the tables are turning, Pata reports: The Takarazuka folks are doing a musical stage adaptation of Tezuka’s Princess Knight.

At PopCultureShock, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei reviews Line, a one-shot from Anne Freaks manga-ka Yua Kotegawa. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 16 of Red River and Christopher Seaman “powers up the easy chair” to enjoy vol. 2 of Gundam Seed Destiny. Mangamaniaccafe looks at two CMX titles, vol. 5 of Moon Child and vol. 2 of Emma. Kethylia has a four-word summary of vol. 1 of Banya the Explosive Delivery Man: “Pretty art, lame storyline.”

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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2 Responses to Back to work!

  1. Tina Anderson says:
    January 2, 2007 at 11:02 am

    Dark Horse has this page-turner preview as well, on the Gungrave Artbook –
    http://www.darkhorse.com/downloads.php?did=574

    I think it’s interesting, and it’s very fast load.

  2. Brigid says:
    January 2, 2007 at 5:18 pm

    Thanks, Tina! It takes a minute to get used to, but then it is nice and smooth. And it’s fun to play with!

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