Weekend wrap-up

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Brigid Alverson

Lori Henderson has the lineup of this week’s new all-ages comics and manga at Good Comics for Kids.

Kristin takes a look at the most promising manga in the September Previews.

Jason Thompson writes about the racing manga Initial D in his latest House of 1000 Manga column at ANN.

David Welsh’s latest license request is Fashion Fade, a shoujo manga about fashion design that dates back to the late 1970s.

News from Japan: Chibisan Date, by Hetalia creator Hidekaz Himaruya will be a monthly feature in Gentosha’s Comic Spica. Both Chocolate Girl (by Butterflies, Flowers creator Yuki Yoshihara) and Sora no Manimani are coming to an end.

Reviews

Chris Kirby on vol. 3 of Bunny Drop (The Fandom Post)
Victoria Martin on vol. 5 of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (Kuriousity)
Angela Eastman on vol. 5 of Kurozakuro (The Fandom Post)
TSOTE on vol. 1 of Taimashin (Three Steps Over Japan)
James Fleenor on vol. 1 of Tenjho Tenge (Anime Sentinel)
Matthew Warner on Velveteen & Mandala (The Fandom Post)

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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2 Responses to Weekend wrap-up

  1. ZepysGirl says:
    September 9, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    The link is messed up for James Fleenor’s review.

  2. Brigid says:
    September 9, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Fixed it! Thank you!

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