MangaBlogCast: NYCC and more!

Posted on March 6, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The newest MangaBlogCast is up at the MangaCast. This week Jack and I cover the news out of NYCC but also some stories that broke outside the Javits Center. Links after the cut.

NYCC news

ICv2: Graphic novels outsell periodicals
New titles from Del Rey
Go!Comi new series
Vertical panel writeup
Ishii on the “herpes of the internet”
CPM series back on track

Outside the con

Yen Press to publish Square Enix and Svetlana Chmakova titles
Yen to publish manga anthology
PWCW on Yen plans

Yen parent buys PIKA
MangaCast comments on the significance of this

Monthly Shonen Jump to stop publishing
More from Manganews

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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