Wednesday links

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Lots of manga goodness at this week’s Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, where Ed Chavez takes a look at CMX and Kai-Ming Cha talks to Eijiro Shimada of Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine about the publisher’s international manga competition. Amazingly, Naruto tops the August bestseller list, which also features Kingdom Hearts II, Death Note, more Naruto, Bleach, and Millennium Snow.

David Welsh has a short list of this week’s picks.

The new issue of Otaku USA is out, and Erin F. has a feature article on Tekkonkinkreet.

Okazu’s 5th anniversary is coming up, and Erica suggests readers send in some yuri art to celebrate.

Missed it: Newsarama interviewed Tokyopop director of new product development Jeremy Ross about Tpop 2.0. Caught it: ANN.

Manga Life has the PR on June Manga’s August releases. And ComiPress has the scoop on the upcoming volume of Aoi House.

ANN reports that sales of cell phone manga are up threefold, and web manga is up 70 percent, in Japan.

Reviews: First, head over to ANN, where Carlo Santos checks out a batch of new titles in his Right Turn Only!! column. And the Anime on DVD crew post another batch of Small Bodied Manga Reviews. Also at AoD, Patricia Beard looks at vol. 1 of Can’t Win With You. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reviews vol. 7 of Pastel, vol. 2 of Ichigenme… The First Class Is Civil Law, and vol. 4 of Saint Seiya. At Manganews, the review of the day is Floating_Sakura’s take on vol. 1 of Millennium Snow. Katherine Dacey-Tsuei checks out vol. 7 of The Rising Stars of Manga, Tokyopop’s competition anthology, at PopCultureShock. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand reviews vol. 1 of Stand By Youth and Miranda updates vols. 2 and 3 of Crossroad. Michael Aronson reviews vol. 7 of Buso Renkin at Manga Life. At the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie reviews vol. 1 of Hollow Fields. Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page checks out another Maki Usami manga, Sakura Rhythm. At Mecha Mecha Media, John Thomas enjoys vol. 1 of Translucent and vol. 1 of Mushishi. I am Otaku feels reaffirmed by Genshiken. At Warren Peace Sings the Blues, Matt Brady reviews vol. 1 of Buddha.

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 Wednesday links

  1. Gumugum says:
    August 8, 2007 at 8:26 am

    > Missed it: Newsarama interviewed Tokyopop director …

    Nope you didn’t ^^

  2. ceena (Yukari Shiina) says:
    August 8, 2007 at 10:07 am

    Hello!

    Thank you for the link to Ms. Kai-Ming Cha’s interview with Mr. Eijiro Shimada for Publishers Weekly. I hope it motivates manga artists all over the world to submit their works to our competition!!

  3. Brigid says:
    August 8, 2007 at 10:13 am

    Thanks, Eclipse. I thought I was losing it. Oh, wait…

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