Thursday roundup

Posted on March 20, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Deb Aoki talks to Madeleine Rosca, the creator of Hollow Fields, at About.com.

On the USA Today best-seller list, vol. 28 of Naruto drops from number 17 to 26, and vol. 19 of Fruits Basket debuts at number 112.

Danielle Leigh lists some manga she’d like to see licensed in English in her latest Manga Over Flowers column at Comic Book Resources.

I made these specially for you, with lots of love: John Jakala finds some disturbingly funny maid 4-koma on Kaori Mori’s website.

Ambassador Doraemon reporting for service.

Patrick Macias presents a look at PQ magazine—not PiQ, PQ. Totally different head. Totally.

Digital Manga has announced the titles of five new yaoi novels they will be publishing this fall.

News from Japan: ComiPress has the weekly manga chart and announcements of two new josei magazines and a Type Moon Info/Comics Book that are in the works. ANN has more on the josei magazines, including some art and the news that one will feature a manga by Erica Sakurazawa.

Manly Manga and More lists the German manga releases for April.

Reviews: Ed Sizemore takes a look at vol. 1 of Yumekui Kenbun: Nightmare Inspector at Comics Worth Reading. Ken Haley checks out vol. 1 of Rose Hip Rose at PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog and Ferdinand of Prospero’s manga reads it as well. Connie reviews vols. 12 and 13 of Berserk at Slightly Biased Manga. Danielle Van Gorder reviews vol. 1 of Necratoholic and vol. 1 of World’s End, and Matthew Alexander has a brief review of vol. 7 of Enchanter at Anime on DVD. Manga Life posts a quartet of new reviews: Joy Kim on vols. 2 and 3 of D.Gray-Man, Shannon Fay on vol. 1 of Undertown, and Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vols. 2-4 of Othello. Down at the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie has vol. 1 of J-Pop Idol propped up between the salt and pepper shakers. Tangognat is disappointed by vol. 1 of Yozakura Quartet, but Dale North of Japanator liked it a lot. It’s time to seinen up at MangaCast, where manly Ed Chavez posts an audio review of vol. 2 of Dragon Head and vol. 1 of Brave Story. At Warren Peace Sings the Blues, Matthew Brady reads the April issue of Shojo Beat.

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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