I’m off to NYAF first thing in the morning, so here’s a quick look at recent news:
Heidi MacDonald presents part two of her interview with Slam Dunk manga-ka Takehiko Inoue at The Beat.
Drawn & Quarterly is publishing a third volume of manga by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (The Push Man, Abandon the Old in Tokyo). The manga, titled Good-Bye, is due out in May 2008.
A Kodansha employee went fishing for bloggers’ information and got caught. ComiPress has the sad tale: Posing as a college student doing research, the employee e-mailed a number of Japanese manga bloggers asking them to share their traffic numbers and hit counts and to explain how they decided which books to review. It might have worked, too, had the answer form not been marked “Kodansha Information System Department.” Borderline Hikikomori comments.
On a more exalted note, ComiPress has the winners of the 11th Japanese Media Arts Festival.
German blog Manly Manga and More posts Carlsen’s summer lineup.
Reviews: Dave Ferraro reviews vol. 1 of Parasyte at Comics-and-More. Adam Stephanides pronounces My Dearest Devil Princess “notable only for the thoroughness of its mediocrity” at Completely Futile. The Anime on DVD crack manga team lays down some more Small Bodied Manga Reviews. At Manga Life, Lori Henderson checks out vol. 4 of Genju no Seiza, MW, and vol. 2 of Muhyo and Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. And Lori jumps over to Manga Recon, where she does a guest review of vols. 1-9 of Dragon Voice. At the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie reviews vol. 1 of Gakuen Alice, vol. 1 of Me and My Brothers, and Noise.
