Quick links

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

At Newsarama, Chris Arrant interviews Fred Schodt, author of The Astro Boy Essays. (H/T: Charles Tan.)

ComiPress continues their Manga Zombie excerpts with a chapter on obscure gekiga manga artist Suzuki Ryosei. (Images are NSFW).

Also not entirely safe for work, but a good read nonetheless: Christopher Butcher has a beginner’s guide to yaoi for gay men. (Via Blog@Newsarama.)

John Jakala revisits Tintin Pantoja’s re-imagination of Wonder Woman.

Carlo Santos has another Right Turn Only!! column up at ANN, with some brief reviews and a fairly hard slam at Vampire Knight.

It was a noble experiment, but Digma, the first free manga magazine in Japan, has folded after less than a year.

After a student in Kyoto Seika University’s Department of Manga was stabbed to death, the faculty and students made a manga about him, partly to memorialize the student, partly to help solve the crime.

Reviews: At Blogcritics, Katie McNeill reviews Asian Beat. Jordan Marks reviews Camera Camera Camera at Yaoi Suki. Connie has posted a ton of reviews at Slightly Biased Manga since I last checked in: Japan As Viewed by 17 Creators, vol. 2 of Skip Beat, Truly Kindly, vols. 1 and 2 of Princess Princess, vol. 3 of Hoshin Engi, vol. 4 of After School Nightmare, vol. 4 of Click, and vol. 16 of Eyeshield 21. At the Sunny Side Up Anime Blog, huamulan03 reviews That Guy Was Splendid. At Anime on DVD, the staff contributes their Small Bodied Manga Reviews and Ed Chavez critiques the Welcome to the NHK novel. Jog reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Octopus Girl. Mely reviews Nabi: The Prototype at Coffeeandink.

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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One Response to Quick links

  1. gia says:
    December 13, 2007 at 9:53 am

    Ya know, I don’t think anyone reads Vampire Knight due to its nuanced story and complex characters. It’s always been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, and I think that’s what so many people enjoy about it— it’s an unabashedly trashy high school soap opera. With vampires.

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