Quick Friday update

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

I can’t believe I missed my own story, but this was a busy week: At PWCW, I talked to marketing manager Kasia Piekarz about how Tokyopop is adjusting to the loss of Kodansha’s licenses.

At Good Comics for Kids, Lori Henderson checks out this week’s all-ages comics and manga.

I was thinking it might be interesting to compare Yen Press’s editions of Yotsuba&! to those put out by ADV, but Cathy beat me to it at it can’t all be about manga. I didn’t realize that Yen had done new translations, but Cathy finds some interesting differences.

Helen McCarthy shows off a sample of her upcoming book The Art of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga.

Alethea and Athena Nibley explain why all that stuff you thought you would never use in high school actually comes in handy for manga translators.

The Manga University folks are giving away a drawing by Ryuto Kanzaki, creator of Samurai Confidential. All you have to do to enter is tweet.

News from Japan: Writer Isuna Hasekura and artist Asuka Katsura, creators of Spice and Wolf, Blood+, and Le Portrait de Petit Cossette, are starting a new series, Billionaire Girl, about a girl who makes a killing doing day trading and her ordinary-guy tutor.

Reviews

Deb Aoki on vol. 1 of Ballad of a Shinigami (About.com)
AstroNerdBoy on vols. 1-23 of Fruits Basket (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Diana Dang on vol. 2 of Gakuen Prince (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (i heart manga)
Joy Kim on vol. 6 of Goong (Manga Life)
Shojo Flash on vol. 5 of Mixed Vegetables (Shojo Flash)
Juile on Mr. Flower Groom (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Ooku: The Inner Chambers (Tangognat)
Matthew J. Brady on vols. 2 and 3 of Pluto (Warren Peace Sings the Blues)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 6 of Sand Chronicles (Manga Life)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Shirley (Kuriousity)
Casey Brienza on Where Has Love Gone? (ANN)
Snow Wildsmith on Works (Fujoshi Librarian)
Lexie on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (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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2 Responses to Quick Friday update

  1. Michelle Smith says:
    September 11, 2009 at 7:38 am

    One bit of news I saw yesterday and mentioned on Twitter is that NETCOMICS seems to’ve rescued Full House (a manhwa from the creator of Let Dai) from CPM:
    http://www.netcomics.com/news/notice.htm?uid=357

  2. Sesho says:
    September 12, 2009 at 8:01 am

    I have yet to see ANY of the Yen Yotsuba books at any of my local bookstores (Barnes and Noble, Borders) or comic shops. That is not good news.

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