New releases and news bites

At MTV Geek, I take a look at this week’s new manga and blog a bit about Shonen Jump‘s storyboard contest and a preview of Yen Press’s Soulless graphic novel, illustrated by the one and only rem.

David Welsh looks at this week’s new releases and some josei manga beginning with X that he’d like to see licensed. Sean Gaffney peers into his crystal ball at next week’s new manga.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber reflects on how manga editors learn on the job, and she is looking for bloggers to review the digital manhwa Ill-Fated Relationship.

NBM, which usually focuses on other types of graphic novels, will be publishing an interesting manga in September: Takashi Murakami’s Stargazing Dog.

The Digital Manga blog rounds up the highlights of Anime Expo—with pictures.

News from Japan: Masakazu Katsura (Video Girl Ai) is going to draw a one-shot manga based on the Tiger & Bunny anime. ANN has the latest Japanese comics rankings.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks at a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Chris Kirby on vol. 4 of 7 Billion Needles (The Fandom Post)
Kristin on vol. 9 of Black Bird (Comic Attack)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 4 of Cross Game (The Comic Book Bin)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Ghostface (The Manga Critic)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 4 of Itazura na Kiss (Kuriousity)
Kristin on La Quinta Camera (Comic Attack)
LIssa Pattillo on vol. 2 of One Pound Gospel (Kuriousity)
Michelle Smith on vols. 2-5 of Pandora Hearts (Soliloquy in Blue)
Matthew Warner on vol. 3 of Saturn Apartments (The Fandom Post)
Matthew Warner on vol. 32 of Shaman King (The Fandom Post)
Kelakagandy on vol. 11 of Shugo Chara! (kelakagandy’s ramblings)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 3 of The Stellar Six of Gingacho (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
David Welsh on vol. 1 of Tenjho Tenge (The Manga Curmudgeon)
John Rose on vol. 2 of Tenjho Tenge (The Fandom Post)
Julie Opipari on vol. 4 of Time and Again (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Vicki Paull on Twin Spica (Manga Bubbles)
David Welsh on vol. 1 of Wandering Son (The Manga Curmudgeon)

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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