Viz’s original manga, Previews peeks, new manga cafe in SF

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Christopher Butcher gets the scoop of the day, as he follows up with Viz’s Marc Weidenbaum on his strategy for publishing original manga.

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez finds the new manga in the latest Diamond Previews. Precocious Curmudgeon David Welsh takes a look as well. ANN has word of some new titles from Aurora and Deux.

Deb Aoki has short previews of some new titles from Fanfare/Ponent Mon, including Jiro Taniguchi’s The Ice Wanderer and Hideo Azuma’s Disappearance Diary.

Shaenon Garrity takes a look at The Boys of Shonen Manga at ComiXology.

There’s a new manga cafe, Mika Manga Cafe, opening in San Francisco, and Gia got a sneak peek, while Deb was there on opening day.

Reviews: One volume is plenty for Wilma Jandoc and Jason Yadao, who look at Just My Luck and Calling You for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Connie thinks vol. 4 of My Heavenly Hockey Club is starting to fall a bit flat at Slightly Biased Manga. James Fleenor reviews vol. 9 of O-Parts Hunter at Anime Sentinel. Carlos Alexandre checks out The Dark Wraith of Shannara at PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog. At Active Anime, Davey C. Jones reads vol. 1 of Gun Blaze West and Rachel Bentham checks out vol. 3 of Prince Charming.

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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2 Responses to Viz’s original manga, Previews peeks, new manga cafe in SF

  1. Lianne Sentar says:
    April 29, 2008 at 6:59 pm

    Whoops! Shaenon Garrity takes a look at The Boys of SHOUJO Manga. And man, she’s so funny. And right.

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