MangaBlogCast is up!

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Check it out at the MangaCast or download it directly from iTunes. This week’s podcast features fewer stories but a little more depth in each one. Links after the cut.

Manga Market Meltdown

ComiPress: Manga sales are down in Japan.
ICv2: Yeah, and DVDs too!
Simon Jones: No! Not shrinking! Getting more diffuse!
ComiPress: Yup, see, here’s a partnership between video, game, and manga people.

Manga Pirates Walk the Plank

Creators sue three men for copyright infringement
Commentary from Simon Jones

Viz’s Signature imprint, one year later

Unfinished series: Orphans of the manga world

New Titles Watch

New titles from Shojo Beat
New titles from 801 Media
New titles from Broccoli

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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