Friday the 13th linkblogging

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Fred Gallagher drops in at The Engine to talk about how and why MegaTokyo got picked up by Kodansha.

At Comicsnob, Matt Blind looks at online manga sales rankings for this week.

LJ’er redplasticglass muses on the recent seinen-josei discussions. (Via When Fangirls Atttack.)

The Nichi Bei Times has a nice package on manga, with a lengthy article on Tezuka, another on cosplay, and primers on manga and manga genres.

At TZG2.0, Myk takes a look at the Amazon sales charts in Germany.

New blog alert: Manga Xanadu is a new LiveJournal that shows plenty of promise, from the first two posts: The blogger is literate and thoughtful, and she’s a mom like me! I’m looking forward to seeing what she has to say in the future.

Reviews: At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 2 of Galaxy Angel II and vol. 2 of Mamotte! Lollipop. Tim Janson reviews vol. 1 of War Angels at Manga Life. At The Comic Book Bin, Leroy Douresseaux checks out vol. 1 of Avalon High: Coronation.

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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2 Responses to Friday the 13th linkblogging

  1. Myk says:
    July 13, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Erm… actually I was looking at the Amazon sales charts in Germany.

  2. Brigid says:
    July 13, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    Sorry! I fixed it.

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