Sunday news

Chris Mautner has already made the Newsarama Blog much more interesting to us non-Marvel-and-DC types. Now he redeems the newspaper manga-101 genre as well with a well researched and well written primer on yaoi.

If that whetted your appetite, registration for Yaoicon is now open. (Via Yaoi Suki.)

Manganews translates an interview with pseudonymous manga-ka 07th Expansion.

It’s time to vote in the latest Rising Stars of Manga contest. Check out all the entries, then select your favorite by March 12. If you’re not sure who to vote for, Tina Anderson has a suggestion. And if you can’t get enough Tokyopop, Ed has audio of their NYCC panel up at the MangaCast.

Same Hat! has a great NYCC post that includes news, views and pictures (even one of yours truly). They also bring the sad tidings that Dark Horse is discontinuing Museum of Terror after vol. 3. One of the Jones Boys blames it on Joe Quesada.

Tokyopop editor Tim Beedle shares his memories of NYCC.

At Icarus Comics (NSFW!), Simon Jones has some thoughts on Yen’s recent moves.

The Manga Junkie checks out vol. 25 of Sanimuni Go.

Reviews: At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie continues her trip through W Juliet, with reviews of volumes 5, 6, and 7. She also checks out vol. 5 of Dragon Head and gets frustrated with vol. 5 of Reiko the Zombie Shop. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 3 of Suzuka, vol. 3 of Beauty Pop, and vol. 5 of Skip Beat, while Christopher Seaman checks out vol. 18 of Firefighter Daigo of Company M. Manga Punk reads vol. 2 of Juvenile Orion.

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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