Monday morning news update

Sean Gaffney starts us off with a look at this week’s new manga at A Case Suitable for Treatment, and he also wraps up the latest Manga Moveable Feast, which featured After School Nightmare.

The Comics Village team, meanwhile, picks the best of the past week’s new releases.

Lori Henderson takes us through the week’s manga news at Manga Xanadu, and Erica Friedman posts the latest edition of Yuri Network News at Okazu.

On the heels of Banned Books Week, Daniella Orihuela-Gruber has some thoughts on self-censorship, as opposed to the type imposed from the outside.

How-to-draw-manga books come to Japan. It looks like this one is a Japanese book that has been translated.

News from Japan: Arina Tanemura has drawn a 32-page chapter of I.O.N., which she last worked on 13 years ago, for the second issue of Ribon Fantasy Zōkan-gō magazine.

Reviews

Richard Bruton on Black Blizzard (Forbidden Planet)
Connie on vol. 6 of Blade of the Immortal (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 31 of Bleach (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1 and 2 of Cat-Eyed Boy (The Manga Critic)
Shannon Fay on Chibi-Vampire (Kuriousity)
Jaime Samms on Cold Sleep (Kuriousity)
Nicola on The Dreaming: The Collection (vols. 1-3) (Back to Books)
Oyceter on A Drunken Dream and Other Stories (Sakura of DOOM)
Carlo Santos on vol. 12 of Fairy Tail (ANN)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Grand Guignol Orchestra (The Comic Book Bin)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 16 of Hayate the Combat Butler (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
J. Caleb Mozzocco on vol. 1 of Hetalia: Axis Powers (Blog@Newsarama)
Connie on vol. 2 of Laon (Slightly Biased Manga)
James Fleenor on Manga for the Beginner: Shoujo (Anime Sentinel)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6 of Negima!? Neo (I Reads You)
Johanna Draper Carlson on Odd Is On Our Side (Comics Worth Reading)
Connie on vol. 5 of Pet Shop of Horrors (Slightly Biased Manga)
Katherine Farmar on Utahime: The Songstress (Comics Village)
Tangognat on vols. 7 and 8 of Vagabond (VizBig Edition) (Tangognat)

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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