Online manga news and reviews

In this week’s Unbound column at Robot 6, I talked to Psy*Comm creator Tony Salvaggio and Tokyopop Director of Marketing Marco Pavia about Tokyopop’s online manga program. Some of the things they said may surprise you.

Melinda Beasi kicks the tires on Digital’s eManga.com, and Kate Dacey liveblogs her impressions of Viz’s SIGIKKI site.

IDW will be doing a comics adaptation of the Astro Boy movie. Hey, wait a minute…

Reviews: Michelle Smith takes a look at four recent Shonen Jump titles at Comics Should Be Good.

Snow Wildsmith on Alone in My King’s Harem (Fujoshi Librarian)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Ballad of a Shinigami (Kuriousity)
Clive Owen on vol. 4 of Black Lagoon (Animanga Nation)
Julie on vol. 2 of B.O.D.Y. (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Emily on Bokura no Pink (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Brian Henderson on vol. 1 of Broken Blade (Manga Xanadu)
Grant Goodman on vol. 1 of Cat Paradise (Manga Recon)
Billy Aguiar on CSI: Intern at Your Own Risk (Prospero’s Manga)
Katherine Farmar on Ka Shin Fu (Comics Village)
Snow Wildsmith on vol. 1 of Magic Touch (Manga Jouhou)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 1 of Ooku: The Inner Chambers (Manga Life)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vols. 11 and 12 of S.A. (Manga Life)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 1 of Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee (Comics Worth Reading)
Snow Wildsmith on Utahime: The Songstress (Good Comics for Kids)
Oyceter on vols. 1-5 of Venus Capriccio (Sakura of DOOM)
asamisgirl on You Will Drown in Love (The Yaoi Review)
Lexie on Zombie Loan (Poisoned Rationality)

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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