Talkin’ Black Jack

Sean Gaffney takes us through this week’s new manga at A Case Suitable for Treatment.

Erica Friedman brings the latest from the world of yuri at Okazu.

Sam Kusek posts seventh and last days’ worth contributions to the Manga Moveable Feast discussion of Barefoot Gen.

Kate Dacey, David Welsh, and Melinda Beasi have a roundtable discussion on vols. 12 and 13 of Black Jack at Manga Bookshelf.

David Welsh asks his readers: Which manga would you like to see rescued from license limbo?

I’m somewhat tardy in linking this, but Matt Blind has worked out the cumulative manga best-seller charts for the third and fourth quarters of 2010, based on online sales. He also teases out the numbers a bit to see what they can tell him.

Reviews: Johanna Draper Carlson takes a quick look at some new Shojo Beat releases at Comics Worth Reading. Anna checks out some Harlequin manga about pregnant women and millionaires at Manga Report.

Andrew Cunningham on Ben Tou (Eastern Standard)
Connie on vol. 1 of Gunslinger Girl (omnibus edition) (Slightly Biased Manga)
Emily on Hakushaku-sama wa Yokujou suru (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Alex Hoffman on vol. 1 of Kamisama Kiss (Manga Widget)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 10 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Comics Worth Reading)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 12 of Neon Genesis Evangelion (The Comic Book Bin)
Julie Opipari on A Powerful Persuasion (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Connie on vol. 2 of Ratman (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 5 of Rin-ne (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 3 of Sensual Phrase (Slightly Biased Manga)
Andrew Cunningham on Setsu (Eastern Standard)
David Welsh on A Single Match (The Manga Curmudgeon)
Connie on vol. 3 of Spiral (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 2 of Venus Capriccio (Slightly Biased Manga)

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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One Response to Talkin’ Black Jack

  1. OT says:

    Thank you for linking to the Matt Blind information. I really like looking at sales figures to get a sense of how my favourite publishers are doing. It makes for an interesting comparison to the Tilting at Windmills summary for 2010 (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30752). Seems like manga on a whole had another difficult year in 2010.

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