Deb Aoki has a long list of the 21 best manga of 2010.
Peepo Choo creator Felipe Smith is living the dream—he is one of the few Americans to get a gig making manga in Japan, for a Japanese magazine. Marc Bernabe interviews him on video for Masters of Manga, and his advice can be boiled down to this: Learn the language, and be prepared to work really, really hard.
Share your knowledge: Same Hat posts some questions from Ryan Holmberg, who curated the Garo manga show and is doing a postdoc in contemporary art, about American reactions to the work of Kazuo Koike.
Sean Kleefeld finds a manga reader, a extension for the Chrome browser, that’s so good, users might not realize it’s pulling in scanlated manga.
Two manga, Naoki Urasawa’s Pluto and Suehiro Maruo and Edogawa Rampo’s La Chenille (Imomushi) have been nominated for the Best Comic award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
David Welsh reaches the letter Q in his Seinen Alphabet at The Manga Curmudgeon.
Tanbishugi spots a new Tokoyopop license on Amazon: The Sacred Blacksmith. ANN has more.
Reviews: Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss four Juné manga in their latest BL Bookrack column at Manga Bookshelf. Ng Suat Tong puts the beat down on vol. 1 of Genkaku Picasso at The Hooded Utilitarian. Other reviews of note:
Greg McElhatton on vol. 1 of AX (Read About Comics)
Lissa Pattillo on <a href="Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Demon Sacred (ANN)
Kristin on vol. 19 of D.Gray-Man (Comic Attack)
Ken Haley on vol. 1 of Fafner: Dead Aggressor (Sequential Ink)
Lori Henderson on vol. 8 of Gestalt (Manga Xanadu)
Anna on vol. 3 of Itazura na Kiss and vol. 2 of Alice the 101st (Manga Report)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 8 of Pokemon Adventures (ANN)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 4 of Time and Again (Kuriousity)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 9 of Vagabond (VizBig edition)
