New manga, Harlequin online, and Kagome's uniform

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

Brad Rice and David Welsh check out this week’s new releases, which are heavy on the shoujo, apparently, and Tangognat looks at the month ahead.

Deb Aoki takes a look at the Harlequin manga that Digital will be publishing online.

Publishers Weekly has posted its Best Books of 2009 list and both Pluto and A Drifting Life make the “comics” list.

Cathy shows off her collection at it can’t all be about manga.

InuYasha creator Rumiko Takahashi blogs about Kagome’s uniform at The Rumic World.

Neither of these is manga, but they are both sort of interesting for other reasons: I interviewed Mark Waid of Boom Studios for PWCW, and at Robot 6 my Unbound column takes a look at dead webcomics.

Reviews: Ed Sizemore reviews Hayao Miyazaki’s Starting Point: 1979-1996, a book of writings by and interviews with the director, at Comics Worth Reading.

Danielle Leigh on vol. 1 of Beast Master (Comics Should Be Good!)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 2 of Black Bird (Manga Bookshelf)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Bloody Kiss (Prospero’s Manga)
Julie on Boys Love (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Michelle Smith on vols. 4 and 5 of Case Closed (Soliloquy in Blue)
Steven M. Bari on vol. 32 of Case Closed (Manga Life)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 10 of The Gentlemen’s Alliance+ (Manga Life)
Joy Kim on vol. 1 of Hero Tales (Manga Life)
Andre on An Ideal World (Kuriousity)
Emily on Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 14 of Love*Com (Manga Life)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Manga no Tsukirikata (Okazu)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Mikansei and vol. 1 of Momogumi Senkei (Tangognat)
Nick Popio on vol. 1 of Nightschool (Girlamatic)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 1 of Ouran High School Host Club (i heart manga)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Papillon (Tangognat)
Danica Davidson on vols. 1-3 of Romance Papa (Graphic Novel Reporter)
Jennifer Dunbar on vols. 1 and 2 of Two Flowers for the Dragon (A word is a unit of language)
Katherine Farmar on Weekend Lovers (Comics Village)
John Martone on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (Anime Vice)
Lori Henderson on vol. 1 of Yokaiden (Manga Xanadu)
Barb Lien-Cooper on vol. 1 of Yotsuba&! (Manga Life)

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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