I’m baaaack!

I returned from NYCC last night into the arms of my waiting family (key quote: “What did you bring me?”) and although the Comfort Inn Murray Hill had its charms, including comfortable beds and free wireless internet, it did feel good to be home again.

I’ll be posting more NYCC reports later, and I even did a couple of video interviews (!) for Digital Strips, but in the meantime, check out this post at The Comics Reporter, where Tom Spurgeon is collecting all the con reports. I’ll sift through and list the manga ones later in the week, when everyone has turned theirs in.

Katherine Dacey-Tsuei stayed at the con longer than I did and caught one of the big scoops of the weekend: Vertical is starting a separate manga imprint. Check out her latest Manga Recon post for more on that, the Tokyopop creator panel, and the CMX panel.

The American Anime Awards were Saturday night, and Active Anime lists the winners. Fruits Basket took the prize for Best Manga.

Yen Press didn’t have a panel, but they did announce their new titles, which include Svetlana Chmakova’s next book. MangaCast has the scoop. Also, Ed has some new titles from CMX, and I’m sure he’ll be posting more with his coverage of that panel. Also: A new title from Blu!

ANN reports that Newtype USA has picked up a CLAMP title, Kobato, to be serialized in the magazine.

New blog alert! Manganews has a blog, and they’re off to a running start with a debate over Netcomics’ plans to license manga.

David Welsh objects to Marc Siegel’s characterization of manga as pabulum for those not quite ready for real comics.

Shaenon Garrity’s Overlooked Manga Festival features a special event: A look at Manga Hell, the last issue of Viz’s manga magazine Pulp.

Floating Sakura looks at incest manga.