Otakon in the rear view mirror

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

Lissa Pattillo gives her take on this week’s new manga in her latest On the Shelf column at Otaku USA.

At The Hooded Utilitarian, subdee has a thoughtful analysis of Rohan at the Louvre (part 1, part 2). Also at HU: Melinda Beasi on the Bechdel Test and Nana.

The Otakon reports are rolling in. At the Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society, I-hsiu Lin reports on the Viz Media panel, the Kodansha Comics panel, and the con as a whole. Vicky Kariolic checks in with Graphic Novel Reporter. The Ninja Consultants, meanwhile, put their reflections in a podcast, and Linda sums up all the manga panels, including the translation one, in a single post at Anime Diet.

Three Steps Over Japan checks out another manga magazine, Weekly Manga Sunday.

Reviews

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 6 of Ai Ore! (The Comic Book Bin)
Kristin on vols. 9 and 10 of Black Butler (Comic Attack)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 1 of Oreimo (Blogcritics)
Michael Buntag on vol. 3 of Sailor Moon (NonSensical Words)
TSOTE on Sengoku Youko (Three Steps Over Japan)
Ash Brown on vol. 3 of Wandering Son (Experiments in Manga)

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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