TCAF, Mushishi, and manhwa

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

Melinda Beasi takes a look at the month to come in this week’s Manhwa Monday column at Manga Bookshelf.

Kate Dacey checks out this week’s shoujo-heavy new comics list.

Michelle Smith checks in with a late entry to the Manga Moveable Feast, her review of vol. 1 of Mushishi, at Soliloquy in Blue, and host Ed Sizemore gathers a number of the participants to the table for a podcast to wind up the festivities.

Erica Friedman joins The Hooded Utilitarian and starts things off by introducing herself; because it’s Erica, and The Hooded Utilitarian, a lengthy comments thread follows.

The Toronto Comics Art Festival happens this weekend, and Deb Aoki rounds up all the manga-friendly panels and publishers at About.com.

Same Hat has some photos of the Garo exhibit in NYC.

News from Japan: Elemental Gelade creator Mayumi Azuma has a new series in the works, Toraneko Folklore. And Comic Yuri Hime is speeding up its release schedule, going from quarterly to bi-monthly.

Reviews: The Manga Recon team kicks off the week with a new set of Manga Minis.

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Animal Academy (I Reads You)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 4 of Bamboo Blade (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Julie Opipari on vol. 2 of Beast Master (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Oliver Ho on Black Blizzard (PopMatters)
Connie on vol. 6 of Cipher (Slightly Biased Manga)
Todd Douglass on vol. 1 of Dorohedoro (Anime Maki)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 10 of Excel Saga (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Dave Ferraro on Flower in a Storm (Comics-and-More)
Sean Gaffney on Fruits Basket: Banquet (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 5 of The Gentlemen’s Alliance+ (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 4 of Gestalt (Mania.com)
Billy Aguiar on .hack//4Koma (Prospero’s Manga)
Becky Fullan on The History of the West Wing (Manga Jouhou)
Lori Henderson on vol. 4 of Honey Hunt (Manga Xanadu)
Tangognat on vol. 2 of Itazura na Kiss (Tangognat)
Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1 and 2 of Kabuki (Fujoshi Librarian)
Carlo Santos on vol. 3 of Karakuri Odette (ANN)
Tangognat on vols. 4-6 of Key to the Kingdom (Tangognat)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 1 of Kitchen Princess (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Connie on Love Full of Scars (Slightly Biased Manga)
Richard Bruton on Manga Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (fictions)
Connie on vol. 13 of Oh My Goddess (Slightly Biased Manga)
Rob Vollmar on Oishinbo (Trouble With Comics)
Connie on vol. 47 of One Piece (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Rampage (Kuriousity)
David Welsh on vol. 1 of Satsuma Gishiden (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Diana Dang on vol. 1 of Stepping on Roses (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Twin Spica (The Manga Critic)
Kristin on vols. 1 and 2 of Vampire Hunter D (Comic Attack)

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 TCAF, Mushishi, and manhwa

  1. Erica says:
    May 4, 2010 at 10:38 am

    > because it’s Erica, and The Hooded Utilitarian, a lengthy comments thread follows.

    ^_^

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