First look at the new week

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Comicsnob posts this week’s manga watch list—and last week’s as well. At the Manga Recon blog, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei looks over this week’s bounty, and the folks at The Otaku post their list as well.

Looking ahead: At the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie looks at this month’s Previews.

Xavier Guilbert interviews Junko Mizuno for du9.

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez is having some adult fun with side dish podcasts on Comic Beast and Ban ga Ichi, two 18+ Japanese magazines, and a review of The Spirit of Capitalism. And 801 Media is one year old this month!

NPR’s On the Media interviews Japanamerica author Roland Kelts about manga as cultural export; you can listen to the podcast at the link.

John Jakala is doing a week of dream teams. First up: Gon and Devil Dinosaur.

Becky Cloonan posts the cover art for vol. 2 of East Coast Rising.

Viz highlights their horror titles, just in time for Halloween.

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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