Short stack for Monday

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Over at Digital Strips, I have a brief interview with Shaenon Garrity about her many webcomics, including the newest one, Skin Horse.

Deb Aoki has previews of Go!Comi’s latest titles at About.com.

News from overseas: Shonen Jump will run a special Death Note one-shot; Kodansha Box is launching a new literary magazine, Pandora; and the light novel Kenpufer will soon be a manga.

The Sunny Side Up Anime Blog lists Gramedia’s Valentine’s Day releases in Indonesia.

Not manga, but interesting: vintage Japanese bookmarks featuring large-eyed ladies in kimonos.

Paul Gravett is curating an exhibit in London titled Manua! China Comics Now. ComiPress has the press release, with dates and other info.

Reviews: Although she admits yaoi usually isn’t her bag, Johanna Draper Carlson enjoys All Nippon Air Lines at Comics Worth Reading. At Soliloquy in Blue, Michelle enjoys vol. 16 of Fruits Basket. Mangamaniac Julie reviews vol. 1 of Vanilla at the MangaCast. Ferdinand enjoys vol. 1 of .hack//G.U. despite his misgivings at Prospero’s Manga. Lissa Pattillo reviews vol. 1 of Aventura at Manga Jouhou. Connie has been reading up a storm at Slightly Biased Manga, posting reviews of vol. 7 of Oh My Goddess, vol. 21 of Detective Conan, vols. 4, 5, and 6 of Crossroad, vols. 6 and 7 of Ouran High School Host Club, vol. 4 of Golgo 13, vol. 13 of Lupin III, and vol. 1 of Presents, Rachel Bentham reviews Everlasting Love and Holly Ellingwood checks out vol. 8 of Godchild at Active Anime. Deb Aoki reviews the adults-only vol. 1 of Manga Sutra at About.com. Demian reviews a historical manga, Vinland Saga, at Otakuism. More history: reviewer Holy Cow reads vols. 1 and 2 of The Times of Botchan for The Star of Malaysia.

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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