Mizuki, Mizuno, Mameshiba!

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

Public Radio International’s program The World recently featured an interview with Shigeru Mizuki, creator of Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths. And Jackie of Green Tea Graffiti talks to Junko Mizuno. (Both links via The Manga Critic.)

Johanna Draper Carlson has put together an interesting timeline of josei manga in the U.S., which is, sadly, mostly a series of false starts.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber reviews the new manga magazine GEN at All About Manga.

This week, Viz Media unleashes the hybrid bean-dogs Mameshiba on an unsuspecting world.

Reviews

Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Maid Shokun (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Dave Ferraro on No Touching At All (Comics-and-More)
Deb Aoki on vol. 1 of Wandering Son (About.com)

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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