Yearly Archives: 2008

Faust and a stack of Bibles

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Deb Aoki interviews Katsushi Ota, the editor of Faust magazine, which will be coming to the U.S. later this year, at About.com. Same Hat finds a Vice magazine cover by Shintaro Kago. The cover is gorgeous, but my advice is … Continue reading →

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Back online

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

A bit of business first: I didn’t update yesterday because of WordPress problems; the site mostly stayed up, but my Akismet spam-blocker did not, so I got over 1,000 spam comments during that time. So, if you commented here and … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Review: Harvey & Etsuko’s Manga Guide to Japan

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

Harvey & Etsuko’s Manga Guide to Japan Story and art by Charles Danziger Manga art by Mimei Sakamoto MG Press, $9.99 Harvey & Etsuko’s Manga Guide to Japan is a strange hybrid of comic and guidebook, manga and western comic. … Continue reading →

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Weekend roundup

Posted on February 2, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

I’m posting a day late because I played hookey yesterday with my friend Dee and visited Hub Comics, the new comics store in Union Square, Somerville. I usually avoid comics shops, having had the same bad experiences plenty of other … Continue reading →

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Manga in the gutters

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

The MangaCasters go over this week’s new manga, and they list the manga in the latest Diamond Previews. Don’t you hate it when manga pages are swallowed by the binding of the book? Kurt Hassler explains why that happens to … Continue reading →

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