Jiro Taniguchi’s The Face-Punching Man

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Brigid Alverson

Philip brings us a roundup of links from Day 3 of the Manga Moveable Feast, which this month features The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service.

Erica Friedman has news of three more yuri titles coming to JManga.

At Fist of the North Star, Milo takes a look at a side of Jiro Taniguchi that is unfamiliar to those of us who read his work in English: The side that delights in drawing men punching other men.

Three Steps Over Japan takes a look at Bessatsu Shonen Magajin, the magazine home of Attack on Titan, Animal Land, and The Flowers of Evil.

Reviews: Ash Brown looks back on a week of manga reading at Experiments in Manga.

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 13 of Bakuman (I Reads You)
Kristin on vols. 42 and 43 of Bleach (Comic Attack)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 6 of Dorohedoro (The Fandom Post)
Ken Haley on vol. 12 of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Sequential Ink)
Lesley Aeschliman on vol. 22 of Ranma 1/2 (Blogcritics)
Alex Hoffman on Wolf (Manga Widget)
Lori Henderson on vols. 6 and 7 of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (Good Comics for Kids)

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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One Response to Jiro Taniguchi’s The Face-Punching Man

  1. Milo (blogofthenorthstar.com) says:
    August 28, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    Thanks for linking to my silly manga ramblings, Brigid!

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