Retrospectives and resolutions

At PWCW, Kai-Ming Cha reviews the year in manga news and lists her picks for 2010.

Kristin takes a look at the manga in the January Previews at Comic Attack.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber posts her manga- and blog-related resolutions for 2011 at All About Manga.

The latest edition of David Welsh’s seinen alphabet is brought to you by the letter W.

News from Korea: Hana Lee posts the winners of the Reader Awards at Manhwa Bookshelf.

Reviews: Melinda Beasi and Michelle Smith discuss some recent releases in their latest Off the Shelf column at Manga Bookshelf.

Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1 and 2 of Alice the 101st (Good Comics for Kids)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 6 of Aria (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Connie on vol. 8 of Blade of the Immortal (Slightly Biased Manga)
Michael C. Lorah on vol. 1 of Cross Game (Blog@Newsarama)
Shannon Fay on vol. 4 of Crown of Love (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 12 of Dr. Slump and vol. 5 of O-Parts Hunter (Manga Xanadu)
Julie Opipari on vol. 13 of Gantz (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Julie Opipari on Higurashi When They Cry: Beyond Midnight Arc, vol. 2 (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Erica Friedman on Kono Kutsu Shirimasenka? (Okazu)
Richard Bruton on Korea as Viewed by 12 Creators (Forbidden Planet)
Connie on Mistress Fortune (Slightly Biased Manga)
Alex Hoffman on vols. 1-3 of Peepo Choo (Manga Widget)
Lori Henderson on the January issue of Shonen Jump (Manga Xanadu)
Julie Opipari on vol. 31 of Vagabond (Mania.com)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 16 of xxxHolic (The Comic Book Bin)
Lori Henderson on vols. 5 and 6 of With the Light (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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