MangaBlogCast, a bit late

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Thanks to Ed’s travels, this week’s MangaBlogCast is a bit late, but the news should still feel fresh. We have commentary on Nymphet, ADV Manga, and changes in Viz’s magazine lineup, plus new titles and more! Linkage after the cut.

Nympho-mania

DeAngelis explains why he canceled Nymphet
Dirk Deppey condemns Nymphet (November 2006)
Zac Bertschy’s critique
Christopher MacDonald on the influence of columnists
The pages in question

Changes afoot for Viz magazines

Summary at ANN

ADV Manga: Back from the dead?

ANN interview with John Ledford
Tom Spurgeon’s review of Yotsuba&!
ADV Manga website

New titles watch

Tokyopop to publish Meg Cabot manga
Tokyopop, Kaplan to publish vocabulary guides

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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