New manga, AX reax

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

I picked my favorites from this week’s new manga at MTV Geek, and David Welsh does the same at The Manga Curmudgeon.

More on Anime Expo: At 2chan.us, shii compiles some Tweets from Japanese attendees at AX, especially the Hatsune Miku concert.

Lissa Pattillo shows off her Animaritime purchases at Kuriousity.

News from Japan: Manga creator Shinji Wada (Sukeban Deka, Crown) has died at the age of 61.

Reviews

Dave Ferraro on Black Sun (Comics-and-More)
A Library Girl on vol. 3 of Kimi ni Todoke (A Library Girl’s Familiar Diversions)
Anna on vol. 5 of Library Wars and vol. 19 of Kaze Hikaru (Manga Report)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 6 of Soul Eater (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Michelle Smith on vol. 6 of Time and Again (Soliloquy in Blue)
Michael Arthur on vol. 1 of Wandering Son (The Hooded Utilitarian)

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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