Rummaging in the manga attic

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

Deb Aoki interviews the publishers of ComicLoud, a new bilingual Japanese/English manga magazine that is being published on the Kindle.

Sean Gaffney previews next week’s new manga.

Lori Henderson has the list of this week’s new all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.

Interesting and obscure old manga is kind of becoming a thing, isn’t it? Kate Dacey writes about Magical Mates, a little-known series from Antarctic, while Jason Thompson looks at Maniac Road, one more entry in the all-about-otaku genre.

Melinda Beasi leads a roundtable on vols. 7 and 8 of Banana Fish at Manga Bookshelf.

Reviews: Wow, Noah Berlatsky really doesn’t like Moto Hagio’s A Drunken Dream and Other Stories! Other reviews of note:

Serdar Yegulalp on vol. 1 of 7 Billion Needles (Genji Press)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 3 of Arata: The Legend (ANN)
Kristin on vol. 6 of Black Bird (Comic Attack)
Julie Opipari on Daniel and Daughter (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tangognat on vols. 1 and 2 of Demon Sacred (Tangognat)
A Library Girl on vol. 1 of Gravitation (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Charles Webb on vol. 3 of Jack Frost (Manga Life)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 2 of Library Wars (Kuriousity)
Zack Davisson on vol. 6 of Maid Sama (Japan Reviewed)
Ed Sizemore on vol. 2 of Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture (Comics Worth Reading)
Mely on vols. 1-3 of Natsume’s Book of Friends (coffeeandink)
Shaenon Garrity on vol. 1 of The Qwaser of Stigmata (About.com)
Animemiz on Record of a Fallen Vampire (Anime Diet)
Erica Friedman on vol. 21 of Yuri Hime (part 2) (Okazu)

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 Rummaging in the manga attic

  1. Noah Berlatsky says:
    September 24, 2010 at 7:20 pm

    You’ve got some coding issues going on with the title of a drunken dream, brigid.

    Also…I only didn’t like the first few stories! Hoping to enjoy the rest more….

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