Deep Thoughts Thursday

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

The Eastern Edge translates an interview with Moebius about manga in general and Naoki Urasawa in particular. (Doesn’t Moebuis sound like some sort of noir superhero—like Rorschach, only maybe he forms a one-sided strip or something? But he’s really a French comics creator.)

Kuriousity has the full list of November manga releases.

Patrick Macias treats us to a gekiga version of Jaws at his blog.

Craig Fischer reads God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and draws some analogies with film at Thought Balloonists.

Welcome Datacomp translates a Japanese essay on Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa.

David Welsh is up to the letter D in his shoujo-sunjeong alphabet. Readers kick in with more suggestions in the comments section.

At Skepticblog, Brian Dunning has a few nice things to say about the Manga Guides to various subjects.

This story on the Vancouver Opera notes that their online manga retellings of classic operas have contributed to their success.

News from Japan: Editors discovered some unpublished pages by the late Crayon Shin-Chan manga-ka Yoshito Usui, which will allow the comic to continue until the March issue of Monthly Manga Town. Kaiji Kawaguchi is ending Zipang and planning a new series for next year. And ANN has the latest Japanese comics rankings.

Reviews: Chris Mautner has some pithy manga reviews up at Robot 6.

Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 5 of Apothecarius Argentum (i heart manga)
Connie on vol. 2 of Arm of Kannon (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on Aromatic Bitters (Slightly Biased Manga)
Chloe Ferguson on The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga (Manga Recon)
Theron Martin on vol. 12 of Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (ANN)
Connie on vol. 31 of Berserk (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 3 of Detroit Metal City (Slightly Biased Manga)
Dan Polley on vol. 8 of Fairy Tail (Comics Village)
Grant Goodman on vol. 2 of The King of Debris (Manga Recon)
Connie on vol. 22 of One Piece (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 2 of Ooku (Slightly Biased Manga)
Julie on vol. 4 of Papillon (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Carlo Santos on vol. 9 of Rosario + Vampire (ANN)
Tangognat on vols. 5 and 6 of Swan (Tangognat)
George R. on vol. 1 of Taisho Yakyuu Musume (Okazu)
D.M. Evans on vol. 5 of Zombie-Loan (Manga Jouhou)

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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One Response to Deep Thoughts Thursday

  1. John T says:
    November 5, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    Moebius would be best known to Japanese as one of the more recent versions of Ultraman.

    http://hicbc.com/tv/mebius/main.htm

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