Tuesday links and reviews

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Nouvelle manga publisher Fanfare/Ponent Mon gets the lead story at ICv2 this morning, with a look at their upcoming releases.

Matt Blind lists this week’s new manga at Comicsnob.

At PopCultureShock, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei distills all of the past week into the top five stories from SDCC. Manganews cheers the Viz Big line, and Ed Chavez is happy about the new CMX titles.

Some of the manga Mely wanted to see has indeed been licensed, but she’d like to see even more. Telophase chimes in in comments.

I missed this in the SDCC avalanche, but One Piece celebrated its 10th anniversary last week, with 140 million volumes sold.

Coming soon: The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga 2, featuring 20 complete stories. Here’s the official website, with a preview and more details. (Via Blog@Newsarama.)

A news analyst discovers that the “anime manga” has increased Japan’s popularity among the youngsters, but can’t quite figure out what to make of it.

Reviews: David Welsh devotes this week’s Flipped column to vol. 1 of Samurai Commando Mission 1549 and vol. 1 of Translucent. Michael Aronson gives an A to vol. 8 of Buddha at Manga Life. At Comics-and-more, Dave Ferraro devotes Manga Monday to the last chapter of Nana and the first chapter of Sand Chronicles in Shojo Beat. At ANN, Carlo Santos reviews Jason Thompson’s Manga: The Complete Guide. Julie checks out vol. 8 of Claymore at the Manga Maniac Cafe. It’s alliteration day at Active Anime, where Christopher Seaman reviews vol. 6 of Sugar Sugar Rune and vol. 9 of Guru Guru Pon Chan. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reads vol. 18 of Cheeky Angel and vol. 2 of Millennium Snow. Hung enjoys vol. 3 of The World of Narue at the BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog.

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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