New manga, secret comics, bathtub reading

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

The Manga Bookshelf bloggers—Melinda Beasi, Kate Dacey, Michelle Smith, and David Welsh—discuss their pick of the week, and readers chime in with theirs in comments. Also at Manga Bookshelf: David Welsh lists some manga that make good bathtub reading.

Ryan takes a fond look back at Secret Comics Japan at Same Hat.

Reviews: Ash Brown takes us through a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. Melinda Beasi, Kate Dacey, Michelle Smith, and David Welsh look over some recent releases at Manga Bookshelf.

Lori Henderson on vol. 9 of Detroit Metal City (Manga Village)
Joe Iglesias on Lychee Light Club (Eastern Standard)
Erica Friedman on vol. 2 of Saigo no Seifuku (Okazu)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 1 of Tenjho Tenge: Full Contact Edition (The Comic Book Bin)
Kristin on vol. 12 of Vampire Knight (Comic Attack)

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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