Today is Free Comic Book Day, and we’ll be making an effort to check out one of our local comics stores, although it’s a tight fit with the rest of the day’s activities. I’ll report back if I succeed. In the meantime, here’s the latest linkage.
At The Engine, Warren asked what manga everyone is reading, and he’s gotten lots of responses. Death Note and Planetes seem to be big favorites.
Manganews has an interesting discussion about the sped-up Naruto releases, along with thoughts on licensing from scanlators’ perspectives.
A manga artist speaks out on manga in textbooks, and she’s not all that enthusiastic:
I have to say that the publisher’s idea is frustrating: “Even bad students can read manga.” It sounds as if manga is a thing for idiots.
At the MangaCast, Ed has Japanese cover images for Viz’s latest round of titles and PR on their planned Naruto world tour.
Otaku Champloo reflects on the emotional resonance of manga.
MangaNEXT will be back this year! I had a good time at last year’s con and my daughter has already announced that she wants to go this year as well.
Lime Manga has posted a trailer for its newest book, Yaru. It’s in German (because the book is published by the German arm of Tokyopop) but you’ll probably get the gist. (Via Deutsche Mangaka.)
Reviews: At Active Anime, Holly Ellingwood takes a peek at vol. 1 of Peach Girl and Scott Campbell checks out The Best of Pokemon Adventures—Yellow. Danielle Van Gorder reviews vol. 1 of Backstage Prince for Anime on DVD. Manga Punk Joey enjoys vol. 1 of Full House, a manhwa title from CPM. Adam Stephanides hasn’t even started reading Marie no Kanaderu Ongaku yet, but he’s very taken by the art. At the Mangamaniaccafe, Julie has an early look at vol. 6 of Nana. Tokyojupiter’s Reika enjoys vol. 2 of Flower of Life. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie posts reviews of Finder Series 1: Target in the Finder, vol. 3 of After School Nightmare, vol. 1 of Millennium Snow, and vol. 4 of RG Veda. Comicsnob Matt Blind reviews vol. 1’s of three children’s titles, Warriors, Dragon Drive, and Kilala Princess.
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I have not read the various links on the manga and text books yet but my first thought was that for me personally this is a hard way to learn. There is a book called “Perspective for Comic Book Artists” by David Chelsea and it’s a widely used book, but for the life of me I couldn’t “get it” at all — the images were more of a distraction than a help,
http://books.google.com/books?id=zJifwBq8V50C&dq=perspective+for+comic+book+artists&psp=1
I think especially the text being in word balloons was hard for me to follow.
I don’t know how they plan to use manga … I think in some cases it might enhance the text, such as having a mascot present the information, or using manga figures when illustrating physics principles. But a full out sequential storytelling, I am unsure if that would work.