What’s up at Viz?

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

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

Apparently the Viz folks were dropping some hints on Twitter that big changes are afoot, and Lissa Pattillo sums up the frenzy of speculation that followed; digital distribution seems to be looming large on everyone’s minds.

Jason Thompson takes a look at the gender-bender manga Futaba-kun Change!, from the old Studio Ironcat, in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

Sean Gaffney takes a look at next week’s new manga at A Case Suitable for Treatment.

Melinda Beasi writes about three same-sex stories she wishes were love stories, and she picks up on some clever commentary in her I Wish I Wrote That! column.

Caddy C discusses feminism in Fumi Yoshinaga’s Antique Bakery at A Feminist Otaku.

All About Manga has an interesting post from Mexian otaku Angel Garcia, who enjoys anime, manga, and the company of fellow fans despite living in a place with a dearth of licensed material and a phenomenally high murder rate.

MangaNEXT is happening Halloween weekend, and Erica Friedman reveals her con schedule at Okazu.

News from Japan: Golden Boy manga-ka Tatsuya Egawa will draw a manga booklet to accompany the PSP game God of War.

Reviews: Deb Aoki hits the express line with seven short reviews of recent manga at About.com.

Zack Davisson on vols. 1-3 of Black Gate (Japan Reviewed)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Fairy Navigator Runa (The Comic Book Bin)
Lori Henderson on vols. 1 and 2 of Ghost Hunt (Manga Xanadu)
Snow Wildsmith on vol. 1 of Kizuna Deluxe Edition (ICv2)
David Welsh on vol. 1 of March Story (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Kris on La Satanica (Manic About Manga)
Lori Henderson on vol. 4 of Vampire Hunter D (Comics Village)

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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