Carl Horn talks Kurosagi

Kate Dacey, Brad Rice, and David Welsh make their choices from this week’s new releases.

Melinda Beasi’s Pick of the Week is Real; check out Manga Bookshelf to find out why she likes it so much.

At comiXology, Kristy Valenti quizzes Carl Horn about Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

News from Japan: Ken Akamatsu is working with other manga-ka to create a free “J-Comi” site that will post out-of-print manga as DRM-free PDFs, with advertising. Interesting idea.

Reviews

Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Arisa (Prospero’s Manga)
Anna on vols. 1-3 of Cross Game (Manga Report)
Rob McMonigal on vol. 7 of Emma (Panel Patter)
Todd Douglass on vol. 4 of Hero Tales (Anime Maki)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of K-ON! (Okazu)
Julie Opipari on vol. 4 of Raiders (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Lori Henderson on Tale of a White Night (Comics Village)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 4 of Twin Spica (A Case Suitable for Treatment)

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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