At Icarus Comics, Simon Jones is OK with manga making a small showing in the Eisners—better we should get our own awards, he says. David Welsh agrees with Simon at Precocious Curmudgeon.
Lori Henderson lists this week’s all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids, and she spotlights two new kids’ series from Viz: Dinosaur Hour and Leave it to PET!
At Words Without Borders, Dot Lin interviews Adrian Tomine about editing Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s work, including A Drifting Life. (Via Journalista.)
Someone has translated a web manga about Ubuntu into English, and if you know what that is, you’ll probably enjoy it. The rest of us, not so much.
The Hooded Utilitarian is adding a yaoi columnist to their team.
John Jakala points out that manga on an e-book reader could allow readers to toggle between the Japanese and English sound effects. Just sayin’. (Warning: Nausea-inducing animated GIFs.)
Shuchaku East has a new look, and to celebrate, blogger Chloe is giving away a copy of the light novel xxxHolic: AnotherHOLIC. It’s a lovely book, so drop by and do what she says!
News from Japan: A Tokyo woman has been arrested for sending threatening e-mails to One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda. ANN also has the latest comic rankings.
Reviews: EvilOmar presents us with a spring bouquet of brief manga reviews at About Heroes.
A Library Girl on vol. 1 of Antique Bakery (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Hitohira (Okazu)
Bill Sherman on vol. 1 of Hot Gimmick (VizBig edition) (Blogcritics)
Julie on vol. 2 of The Key to the Kingdom (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Snow Wildsmith on Live for Love (Fujoshi Librarian)
Lissa Pattillo on Sweet Admiration (Kuriousity)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 1 of We Were There (there it is, plain as daylight)
The Ubunchu manga is nice. Of course, I’m typing this from a computer that is currently running Ubuntu, so I’m somewhere in the target audience.