New manga, Fantitlement, Felipe Smith, Astro Boy!

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Friends of Lulu nominations are up, and now you, the general public, can vote for your favorites. I was honored to be asked to be a judge this year, so I supplied a nomination in each category. However, so many of the other nominees were on my short list that I actually had to go back and check my e-mail to see which came from me. I may be biased, but I do think we came up with a very good list.

Kate Dacey and David Welsh paw through this week’s new releases.

In his latest comiXology column, Jason Thompson explains what Felipe Smith is up to in Peepo Choo.

Kate Dacey summarizes the controversy over the cover for the American edition of the Spice and Wolf light novel.

Joy Fleishhacker writes about the many incarnations of Astro Boy at School Library Journal.

Reviews: John Thomas includes a short review of MPD-Psycho in the latest Sci-Guys podcast.

Brad Rice on Apollo’s Song (Japanator)
Connie on vol. 1 of Beast Master (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 1 of Broken Blade (MangaCast)
Sam Kusek on A Drifting Life (Manga Recon)
Lori Henderson on History of the West Wing (Manga Xanadu)
A Library Girl on In Odd We Trust (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Connie on vol. 3 of I”s (Slightly Biased Manga)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 2 of Kimi ni Todoke and vol. 2 of Black Bird (Comics Should Be Good)
Erin Jones on vol. 13 of Love*Com (Mania.com)
Matthew Rozier on vol. 5 of Pluto (Comics Village)
Katherine Farmar on vol. 1 of Sugarholic (Comics Village)

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 New manga, Fantitlement, Felipe Smith, Astro Boy!

  1. Jake Forbes says:
    October 7, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    Good links today! The Filipe Smith article is a wonderful, smart read and it was was quite amusing to see that “Japa-tastic” cameo. ;)

  2. Rob McMonigal says:
    October 10, 2009 at 10:10 am

    The choices for LuLu were very good, at least for the things I read and felt comfortable voting on. Kudos to you and the other judges.

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