A few things to look forward to

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

This week’s Overlooked Manga Festival is a pre-emptive strike: Shaenon Garrity gives us a glimpse of Tekkonkinkreet in the hopes that it won’t be overlooked.

No doubt envious of the runaway success of Avril Lavigne, the KISS guys are making their first foray into manga, and they’re going all out—it’s yaoi! Ye Olde Comick Book Blogge has the press release and—brace yourself before clicking, please—some art. It’s hard to believe this isn’t a hoax—it’s not listed yet on the site of the purported publisher, BeBeautiful, but they aren’t always the best at updating—but it’s good fun anyway. (Via Comics Worth Reading.) UPDATE: Well, the art is a hoax, anyway (see comments—thanks, Alex and Kevin!). I e-mailed the BeBeautiful folks to see if any of this is true. If they respond, I’ll post it here. UPDATE 2: OK, yeah, it’s a hoax. They poached the press release from Lillian DP—not wise. Thank heaven for the self-correcting nature of the blogosphere!

Manganews highlights something that got buried in the SDCC news: DramaQueen is starting an action imprint. (Scroll down for the item.)

The bunko of Handsome Girl brings back some happy memories for the Manga Junkie.

Reviews: At the MangaCast, Jack Tse does a podcast review of Strawberry 100%, Gin Tama, and Princess Resurrection. At Manga Life, Quita Paul reviews vol. 1 of Absolute Boyfriend. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand enjoys the way vol. 1 of Hollow Fields ignores the standard storylines. Holly Ellingwood gets busy at Active Anime with reviews of vol. 2 of Vampire Knight, vol. 1 of Can’t Win with You! and vol. 2 of Love Is a Hurricane.

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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3 Responses to A few things to look forward to

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  2. Alex Scott says:
    August 3, 2007 at 10:13 am

    Well, the cover’s definitely a fake. “Gene” and “Paul” are obviously Kaoru and Shinji from Evangelion. The towel even says “Nerv.”

    Still, o_O if it’s true.

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