Crossing over

At About.com, Deb Aoki has a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with Felipe Smith about his inspirations for Peepo Choo and the experience of creating manga for a Japanese magazine.

Jason Thompson writes about the Spider-Man manga for the latest edition of his House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

News from Japan: ANN has the latest Japanese comics rankings, including the news that the latest volume of One Piece has sold over 2 million copies.

Reviews: Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith review some recent yaoi manga in their August BL Bookrack column. Lori Henderson discusses the loss of a character in vol. 44 of One Piece; obviously, her review includes a spoiler.

Carlo Santos on vol. 1 of Bakuman (ANN)
Jones, one of the Jones Boys, on vol. 1 of Children of the Sea (Let’s you and him fight)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Code:Breaker (The Comic Book Bin)
Katherine Farmar on vols. 1-4 of Flower of Life (Comics Village)
Charles Webb on vol. 1 of House of Five Leaves (Manga Life)
Derik Badman on vols. 8-10 of Mushishi (Madinkbeard)
Julie Opipari on vols. 1-9 of Sand Chronicles (Blog@Newsarama)
Kiki Van De Camp on vol. 7 of Sand Chronicles (Animanga Nation)
Julie Opipari on vol. 21 of Skip Beat! (Manga Maniac Cafe)

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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