The latest MangaBlogCast is up at the MangaCast. After our holiday hiatus, Jack and I are switching to Mondays, and we’ll try to bring you a timelier and more varied podcast every week. Here are the links for this week’s show:
Wal-Mart pulls yaoi from its site,
Manga makes YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens list
Japanese manga editors chat about 2006
Go!Comi to go global?
Manga gain popularity in France
Sales report on French comics (in French)
ChunHyang72’s summary of the To Terra controversy
Incoming…
Kitchen Princess, vol. 1
Air Gear, vol. 3
Cromartie High School, vol. 9
Nodame Cantabile, vol. 8
Mushishi, vol. 1
Angel/dust, 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.
