Fading to blue

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

First of all, there’s a good reason why my header image is missing—Mr. MangaBlog upgraded me from WordPress 2.5 to 2.8 yesterday, and the image didn’t survive the transition. It will be back in a few days, and hopefully some sort of redesign will follow shortly. Hey, all the cool kids are doing it!

In the meantime, here’s what’s going on.

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez provides covers and commentary on the new releases announced at Anime Expo by CMX and Viz. He’s bullish on Tokyopop as well, if the rumored new titles pan out. Gia has some comments on CMX as well and notes that Tokyopop will have a booth at SDCC.

In other AX news, Deb Aoki has more detail on the Viz panel at About.com, Lissa Pattillo rounds up all the news and announcements at Kuriousity, and Julie thinks over her overall experience at the con at Manga Maniac Cafe.

Kate Dacey takes a look at this week’s new manga at The Manga Critic, and Red Baylon has a slightly different take at Japanator.

Reviews: At The Comics Reporter, David Welsh looks at three comics bout helping the dead cross over: Rin-ne, Omukae Desu, and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Carlo Santos takes on a stack of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. The Manga Recon team post short takes on a variety of recent releases in their latest Manga Minis feature. And the newlywed Ninjaconsultants, Erin and Noah, discuss 20th Century Boys in their latest podcast.

Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 3 of 20th Century Boys (Comics Worth Reading)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Bamboo Blade (The Manga Critic)
Lorena on vol. 6 of Black Jack (i heart manga)
Connie on vol. 1 of Dogs (Slightly Biased Manga)
Casey Brienza on A Drifting Life (ANN)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Gestalt (Kuriousity)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 2 of Gunsmith Cats Revised Edition (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Connie on vol. 28 of Iron Wok Jan (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 8 of I”s (Slightly Biased Manga)
Casey Brienza on vol. 1 of Kimi ni Todoke (ANN)
Anna on vols. 2-5 of King of Cards (2 screenshot limit)
John Thomas on vol. 1 of Negima!? neo (Comics Village)
Julie on New Beginnings (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 3 of Otomen (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Laura on vol. 1 of Pig Bride (revised review) (Heart of Manga)
Erica Friedman on vol. 4 of Red Garden (Okazu)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Rosario + Vampire (Comics-and-More)
Scott VonSchilling on Swallowing the Earth (The Anime Almanac)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 5 of We Were There (Comics Worth Reading)

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 Fading to blue

  1. Jura says:
    July 7, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    Deleted the directory that had the layout/banner? o.o

  2. Brigid says:
    July 8, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    That’s probably it—I know nothing about the back end of this thing. My husband does all the work, but that means I have to wait for him to find time to get to it, which is never easy.

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