Links and self-promotion

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Be sure to check out this week’s Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, which includes an article on Shojo Beat by yours truly and a story about the newest manga publisher, Aurora. There’s also a review of the new, improved, Parasyte.

Top Mangaka? David Welsh envisions a possible reality show.

Shojo Beat is coming up on its second anniversary, and that means it’s party time! They’ll be celebrating at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and 50 lucky winners will win invitations.

Manga comes to the funny pages. Sort of.

Simon Jones does his own version of the new comics list, pulling out all the manga titles from Previews Adult.

On an entirely different note, the Louisville Courier-Journal discovers Christian manga.

Reviews: Connie Zhang reviews vol. 1 of Seimaden at Anime on DVD. At the Comic Book Bin, Leroy Douresseaux checks out vol. 1 of King City.

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 Links and self-promotion

  1. ryan says:
    April 18, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    Thanks for the PW comics week link!— I liked your article :)

    I wonder about the reprint of Parasyte… Will they be uncensored? It wasn’t anything atrocious, but Parasyte from Tokyopop is one of many examples of a US publisher redrawing ‘objectionable’ nudity/fan service stuff so that it can stay in the realm of PG-13.

    The one scene I can think of off the top of my head is in Volume 1, Lefty manifesting as a phallus, which was redrawn by tokyopop as a giant Cobra. Just a thought when they talk about “improving” the series —- it’s one that I read all through junior high and high school :)

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