Quick hits

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

David Welsh collects what others are saying about Ohikkoshi and spotlights shoujo and sunjeong books whose titles start with the letter R at The Manga Curmudgeon.

Jon Snyder takes a look at this week’s new releases at Japanator.

Good news: Otaku Champloo is back, with a spiffy new design, and Khursten kicks things off with a look at Vertical’s Tezuka covers. Welcome back!

Leroy Douresseaux talks to manga creator Sonia Leong about her webcomic Aya Takeo.

New York’s Center for Book Arts will feature the manga magazine Garo in an exhibit this spring. Same Hat has all the gory details.

Reviews: The Manga Recon checks in with short reviews in their latest On the Shojo Beat column.

Kate Dacey on vols. 1-5 of Bride of the Water God (The Manga Critic)
Jennifer LeBlanc on Living for Tomorrow (The Yaoi Review)
Susan S. on vol. 1 of Ludwig II (Manga Jouhou)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 3 of My Heavenly Hockey Club (i heart manga)
Leroy Douresseaux on Our Kingdom (The Comic Book Bin)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 2 of A Tale of an Unknown Country (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

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 hits

  1. Khursten says:
    February 18, 2010 at 8:58 am

    Thanks a lot for the shoutout, Brigid! o/

  2. Ryan says:
    February 18, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    haha, for once Same Hat isn’t GORY and we get slapped with that adjective ;)

    Thanks for the link! I’m not going to make the opening of the GARO exhibit, but hoping to deputize a SH reader to take photos for us!

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