Monday linkage

Posted on January 22, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Here’s an interesting discussion to start your week: A few weeks ago, columnist Matt Blind at Comicsnob wrote a column on why manga are better than Western comics. Co-blogger Bob Holt responded with a column refuting those arguments and has now followed up with three things that Western comics do better. Over at TZG 2.0, Myk contributes his opinion on the topic. All are worthwhile reads.

At PopCultureShock, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei writes about the Moto Hagio story “They Were 11,” a shoujo sci-fi classic.

Christopher Butcher runs through the manga nominated for the Angouleme awards; the bad news is, they’re all in French.

Tiny Tezuka tomes! MangaCast has a list and some comments.

At ComiPress, a Japanese teacher tries to calculate the cost of making manga.

If you happen to be in or near Columbus, Ohio, check out this exhibit of Korean comics at Ohio State University. (Via ANN.)

At Anime Infatuation, Hazel explains, with plenty of scans, why the manga of Shuffle is better than the anime.

Manga Instruction Academy: The Yaoi Press blog demonstrates, with pictures, the importance of sound effects. Yaoi911 presents a tutorial on inking (illustrations are NSFW).

The Rush blog has the cover of Rush #01.

Going to NYCC? ICv2 lists the panelists they will host at their Graphic Novel Conference.

At Mangamaniaccafe, Julie looks at first volumes of two manwha series, Good Luck and Chun Rhang Yhur Jhun. Tokyopop blogger Andre enjoys another manwha, Witch Class. Anime on DVD’s Jarred Pine reviews vol. 1 of E’S. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood checks out Mechademia, the first academic journal devoted to manga and anime, while Christopher Seaman reviews a less cerebral tome, vol. 1 of Le Portrait de Petite Cossette. At The Star of Malaysia, Kevin Tan reviews vol. 1 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles and Ryoko Fukuyama looks at vol. 1 of Nosatsu Junkie. Dirk Deppey dissects Shojo Beat’s Manga Artist Academy.

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.
This entry was posted in Mangablog. Bookmark the permalink.

4 Responses to Monday linkage

  1. Tivome says:
    January 22, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    I’m at the point where I really could not care less what fans of American comics (the few of them left) think of manga. Yeah they sure blog a lot about it but the need to compare and contrast is strictly one-sided. Not many normal manga fans would do the same (Warren who?). Time is better spent, as Bridget noted above, compare and contrast the anime and manga of the same series.

  2. Ninja337 says:
    January 22, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    Why do manga fans hate America?

  3. Tivome says:
    January 23, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Ninja – why can’t you troll even intelligently?

Comments are closed.