Thursday morning briefing

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Why does Mely love Kaori Yuki? It’s hard to say, but fun to read.

Ross Campbell, creator of The Abandoned, has had a falling out with Tokyopop and learned the downside of signing away rights to a character. Johanna has the story.

At MangaCast, Jack takes over the top ten podcast but the rest of the crew stretch the list out to 100. The MangaCasters also give their take on this week’s new manga.

At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 17 of Prince of Tennis and Davey C. Jones reads vol. 2 of Rozen Maiden. Anime on DVD has brief reviews of a number of manga, including vol. 10 of Death Note. The Anime World Order podcast includes reviews of Ode to Kirihito and Yotsuba&!. (Via the Vertical blog, your best source for Kirihito reviews and sharp-edged commentary on the world at large.)

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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