Stan Lee, manga sisters, and more

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

The Otaku USA podcast features an interview with Stan Lee about ULTIMO, which he is working on with Shaman King mangaka Hiroyuki Takei.

The Everett (Washington) Herald profiles two manga-making sisters, Danielle and Nicole Pelham, creators of As Told By, which puts classic fairy tales through the manga-tron.

NYCC watch: Ed Chavez posts DMP’s PR at MangaCast. Go Speed Racer!

At Mecha Mecha Media, John T has a peek at Detective Ritual, a book he would like to see in English.

It’s WaiWai, so who knows, but… it looks like Astro Boy has put on some weight.

News from Japan: Canned Dogs has the story of a fairly obscure manga artist who was arrested for “indecent acts” with a 15-year-old girl. He also got a female fan to give him $1,500, which is legal but kind of tacky.

Reviews: Chloe Ferguson gives middling grades to vol. 21 of Red River at PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog. At Sporadic Sequential, John Jakala awards nine shocked Shos to vol. 9 of The Drifting Classroom. Ferdinand is unimpressed by vol. 1 of Honey and Clover. At Manga Xanadu, Lori Henderson has some short takes on Shonen Jump titles: vol. 12 of Beet the Vandel Buster, vol. 21 of Bleach, and vol. 21 of Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac. Dave Ferraro says goodbye to three series that have reached their final volumes, vol. 11 of Drifting Classroom, vol. 10 of Dragon Head, and vol. 23 of Hana-Kimi, at Comics-and-More. Robert Harris reviews vol. 9 of Wallflower and Matthew Alexander gets on board for vol. 5 of Train+Train at Anime on DVD.

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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