The Tocqueville Connection has a brief article on the manga that won top honors at Angouleme.
Elae reports that the site for the German doujinshi anthology Kappa Maki is up.
Culture Corner: Asahi.com reviews Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization.
The folks at The Star of Malaysia are busy: Max Loh reviews CLAMP North Side, Pauline Wong reads vol. 2 of Beauty Pop, and Kazuki checks out vol. 2 of Genju no Seiza.
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.
