Monday links

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Self-promotion first: My latest web manga column, “Small Packages,” is up at Comixpedia.

Super-librarian Robin Brenner files two reports from NYCC, one professional, the other personal.

Via Deutsche Mangaka, the artists for round two of Carlsen Chibi have been announced.

I came down with the traditional post-NYCC cold last week, so I took it easy and therefore missed the Cool Japan 2007 event down the road at MIT. Comicsnob’s Bob Holt did make it and files a detailed report (part 1, part 2).

This month’s issue of Owl, a Canadian children’s magazine, features a cover and manga lesson by Dramacon’s Svetlana Chmakova. (Via Andre’s blog.)

British artist Siku, whose credentials include 2000AD and Judge Dredd, has completed the first part of The Manga Bible. This could be a really dopey project, but Siku seems to really be into telling a good story with sequential art, rather than preaching, and I liked the look of the sample pages. It’s also highly compressed—the entire Passion story takes up just a two-page spread—which should make for an easier read.

ComiPress reports that part 2 of Negima will debut in March and links to this article about Japanese diplomats in Iraq leveraging the popularity of Captain Tsubasa to increase goodwill. Here’s my favorite part: “The Iraqi people didn’t know he was Japanese—they thought Tsubasa was Saudi Arabian,” the diplomat said. Matt Thorn, call your office!

Reviews: At Active Anime, the indefatigable Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 4 of Basilisk, vol. 1 of Mamotte! Lollipop, vol. 1 of Kitchen Princess, and vol. 11 of Fullmetal Alchemist, and Scott Campbell checks out vol. 1 of Mushishi. Comicsnob Matt Blind calculates that vol. 1 of InuBaka: Crazy for Dogs averages 5.8 cute puppies per page, if you like that sort of thing. At the Mangamaniaccafe, Julie enjoys vol. 3 of VS. Versus. One of the Jones Boys is lost in the hall of mirrors that is vol. 10 of Death Note. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie continues her run through W Juliet with reviews of vols. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, then wraps it up with a look at vol. 5 of Sugar Sugar Rune.

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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One Response to Monday links

  1. Matt Thorn says:
    March 5, 2007 at 10:53 am

    “Here’s my favorite part: ‘The Iraqi people didn’t know he was Japanese—they thought Tsubasa was Saudi Arabian,’ the diplomat said. Matt Thorn, call your office!”

    This is great. That’s the first I’ve heard of Captain Tsubasa in Iraq, but I’ve heard similar comments from people around the world who grew up watching some anime and assumed that the character (whose name was usually localized) was a native of their own country. Apparently, manga-style characters can be “blank signifiers” onto which viewers project what they want to (or expect to) see.

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