I made my own picks from this week’s new manga at MTV Geek.
News from Japan: Kyoto Seika University will start offering a PhD in manga in 2012. And the fourth volume of Hunter x Hunter, which has been on hiatus since 2004, has popped up on retail websites.
Reviews: Ash Brown looks at a week’s worth of manga reading at Manga Report.
Connie on vol. 28 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Slightly Biased Manga)
Julie Opipari on vol. 4 of Library Wars: Love and War (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Sakura Hime (Kuriousity)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 16 of Slam Dunk (The Comic Book Bin)
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.
