Thursday quick links

David Welsh offers his take on the PWCW top ten manga for February.

The MangaCast crew weighs in on all this week’s lists and they also pick the best of this week’s new manga.

Matt Blind posts his own manga watch list at Comicsnob.

Manganews translates a discussion by veteran shoujo manga-ka about doing manga in the 1950s and 1960s.

Also at Manganews: It’s yuri week, with an interview with Erica Friedman and a translated article about the history of yuri in Japan.

Shaenon Garrity’s Overlooked Manga Festival celebrates Banana Fish.

ActuaBD interviews (in French) manga-ka Keiko Ichiguchi. (Via Journalista.)

Johanna has the press release and her own comments on three new manga from Viz: Inu Baka: Crazy for Dogs, Backstage Prince, and Gentlemen’s Alliance +.

Pata has another Right Turn Only!! column up at ANN, and he leads off with a Death Note limerick.

Blogger Akemi looks at character themes in Naruto. (Via Manga Talk.)

At the MangaCast, Ed posts some Hajime no Ippo doujinshi.

Harvard announces its first book about manga; Japanator comments.

ComiPress reports that manga artist Kazuhiro Watanabe has died. Journalista has more.

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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