New manga, Comiket primer, Eyeshield 21 creators interviewed

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Red Baylon lists the week’s new releases for you at Japanator.

Chih-Chieh Chang is one of a group of reporters who interviewed Eyeshield 21 creators Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata in Taipei recently.

David Welsh ponders possible manga remakes of classic superheroes at Precocious Curmudgeon.

Akibanana has a nice primer on Comiket. (Via Journalista.)

San Francisco’s first manga cafe is closing, Deb Aoki reports, and they are selling off their stock at fire-sale prices.

News from Japan: ANN has the latest comics rankings from Oricon and Tohan. Ryan shows off some pages (warning—not for the faint of heart) from Suehiro Maruo’s Imomushi at Same Hat. V.B. Rose creator Banri Hidaka is launching her Berry Berry series in Hana to Yume.

Reviews

Grant Goodman on vol. 6 of Bizenghast (Manga Recon)
Ed Chavez on vol. 1 of Doujin Work (MangaCast)
Julie on vol. 1 of Higurashi When They Cry: Cotton Drifting Arc (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Megan M. on vols. 4 and 5 of Mixed Vegetables (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Connie on vol. 6 of Record of a Fallen Vampire (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 6 of Yotsuba&! (Kuriousity)

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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