MangaBlogCast: Special guest host

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

This week marks the 40th edition of MangaBlogCast, and as a special treat, Ed Chavez himself is hosting this week’s show. Check it out to hear news and commentary about new licenses, seinen sales, and more. Links after the cut.

Anime Expo draws to a close

Advanced Media Network coverage of the Dark Horse panel
Anime Online on DrMaster panel
MangaCast new title round-up

Manga: No Boyz Allowed?

Kethylia on seinen
David Welsh on seinen
David Welsh on the age question

The urge to surge

ICv2’s Anime and Manga Guide predicts record number of new titles

Netcomics makes the move to manga

Netcomics adds Yaoi Press titles and Japanese manga to its lineup

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 MangaBlogCast: Special guest host

  1. Jack says:
    July 15, 2007 at 12:46 am

    Great job Ed!

  2. Dock says:
    July 19, 2007 at 11:19 am

    Great work on the manga blog cast, and congratulations on reaching 40 episodes! Wow! It was nice to hear Ed as a guest host, it brings a different slant to the podcast.

    I was very interested to hear the discussion of seinen manga and the problems related to it, although none of it was news as such. As a big fan of seinen I’m also very conscious that it’s a dwindling market in the west, and these titles need to be universally appealing and/or perhaps packaged differently if they’re to succeed.

    Making male-centric content accessible to females is obviously the way to sell though – Sweatdrop’s ‘Blue is for boys’ anthology sells to as many females and males, which we expected and planned for from the outset.

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