New manga, online sales, and more

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

God Len posts this week’s new releases at Japanator, and David Welsh picks the best of them at Precocious Curmudgeon.

Matt Blind takes a look at online sales of graphic novels for the week ending April 5 at Rocket Bomber.

Haruka Minami, who also publishes under the name Kazuka Minami, will be a guest at Yaoi-Con this year.

Same Hat! Same Hat! presents a week of Shintaro Kago comics, all on the theme of suicide. (And not for the faint of heart, or stomach.)

Lori Henderson discovers manga cross-stitch.

News from Japan: ANN has news of two new launches, Captain Alice, by Yuzo Takada (3×3 Eyes) and a new series (title pending) from Makoto Raiku (Zatch Bell). Also, Glass Mask is going on hiatus until October. MangaCast has the April 20 manga rankings from Taiyosha.

Reviews

Connie on vol. 6 of Banana Fish (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 3 of Black Jack (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 8 of Enchanter (Slightly Biased Manga)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Gakuen Prince (Stop, Drop, and Read!)
Dan Polley on vol. 1 of Gakuen Prince (Comics Village)
A Library Girl on vols. 1 and 2 of High School Debut (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Connie on vol. 5 of Honey and Clover (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 8 of Human Club (Slightly Biased Manga)
Deb Aoki on vol. 1 of Leave it to PET (About.com)
Julie on Love/Knot (MangaCast)
Connie on vol. 12 of Lovely Complex (Slightly Biased Manga)
Joe Iglesias on vol. 2 of Pluto (The Eastern Standard)
Lianne Sentar on vols. 1-4 of S (novels) (Sleep Is for the Weak)
John Thomas on vol. 1 of Samurai 7 (Comics Village)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Tokyo Boys and Girls (Comics-and-More)
Connie on vol. 14 of Yakitate!! Japan (Slightly Biased Manga)

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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