Congratulations to blogger extraordinaire Erica Friedman on the fifth anniversary of her blog, Okazu, and her 800th post, which coincide with a number of other milestones. As a latecomer to her blog, I was delighted by her explanation for the title.
It’s Wednesday, and David Welsh lists his picks from this week’s new comics at Precocious Curmudgeon.
Kai-Ming Cha reports on edu-manhwa at PWCW.
At the MangaCast, Ed has the latest news from DrMaster.
ComiPress reports that Pfizer has a web manga advertising Viagra up at its site. I posted a mini-review at Digital Strips.
At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson is looking forward to some upcoming manga.
Comic Bits Online writes about manhua from Hong Kong.
Elae has some interesting news from Germany: A Subway to Sally anthology, in which various artists turn the band’s lyrics into comics.
Becky Cloonan posts some recent drawings at Ink and Thunder.
Viz is publishing the light novel Brave Story.
If you’re going to be in San Francisco tomorrow night, you should definitely check out Tezuka in the USA: A Manga Publisher’s Forum, which will bring together VIZ honcho Alvin Lu, Dark Horse uber-otaku Carl Gustav Horn, and Vertical’s witty Anne Ishii, and Ian Robertson of Viz Media to talk about publishing Tezuka in English and his influence on other manga.
Reviews: Jack Tse has an audio review of vol. 1 of Venus Versus Virus and vol. 1 of Samurai Commando at MangaCast. At Anime on DVD, Ariadne Roberts reviews vol. 1 of Hanami: International Love Story and the gang posts some Small-Bodied Manga Reviews. Matt Brady discovers there is life after Nana in his review of the September Shojo Beat. Michael Aronson reviews vol. 2 of Full Metal Panic and Dan Polley checks out vol. 1 of Alive: The Final Evolution at Manga Life. Greg McElhatton also critiques vol. 1 of Alive at Read About Comics. At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood takes a look at vol. 8 of Skip Beat. Nick at Hobotaku enjoys vol. 1 of King of Thorn. Julie checks out vol. 9 of Black Cat at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Prospero’s Manga, Miranda enjoys vol. 1 of I Hate You More Than Anyone and Ferdinand is “cautiously optimistic” about vol. 1 of Fantamir. Shaenon Garrity writes about vol. 1 of Astro Boy for the Tezuka: Marvel of Manga blog.
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Oh my. I wouldn’t call Brave Story a “light novel.” It’s 824 pages. That’s pretty damn heavy…
I’m waiting for Viz to start a “ponderous tome” line to accomodate books like that. ^_^
While that History of manhua article was a good read, I cannot understand why some people would use such…peculiar formating for their fonts…
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A rebellion awaits if Viz dared to call them anything but light novel.