This was a light week for new manga, with only a handful of titles hitting stores yesterday. David Welsh kept it small, but the MangaCast crew found plenty to like.
Pink Raygun interviews Make 5 Wishes artist Camilla D’Errico. (Via When Fangirls Attack.)
David Welsh notes some additions to the American Library Association’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens list.
ICv2 has all the details on Viz’s fiction lineup for the rest of the year.
MangaCast has this year’s Kodansha Award Winners, press releases about manhua from DrMaster and a new title from ero publisher Icarus, and an audio side dish on the Japanese magazine Manga Action.
At the Mangamaniaccafe, Julie has more from DrMaster, with info on the latest volumes of Iron Wok Jan and Key Princess Story: Eternal Alice Key Rondo.
Go! Comi’s Christine Schilling blogs about Crossroad, one of Go! Comi’s debut series and the first to wrap up.
John Jakala plays manga guinea pig, checking out three titles recommended by other people: Kekkaishi, The Great Catsby, and Mushishi. I love his description of Catsby as “The Tokyopop cine-manga of Mel Blanc’s Omaha the Cat Dancer anime,” except I’d substitute Fritz the Cat for Omaha.
Tania del Rio re-imagines the DC girls at Comics Worth Reading. Also: Ed Sizemore reports on the Smithsonian’s Manga to Anime seminar.
Erica Friedman will be at Anime Central this weekend, serving on the yuri panel. And ALC will have a table in the Exhibitor’s Hall as well.
Manganews translates a report on the Japanese con Comitia 80.
Twitch links to the trailer of a Japanese film about a manga artist to be shown at Cannes this year. (Via ANN.)
Reviews: At the Mangamaniaccafe, Julie is reading vol. 11 of Mushashi #9 and vol. 1 of Hoshin Engi. The AoD reviewers keep it short and sweet with a new batch of Small Bodied Manga Reviews. They’re busy down at Active Anime, where Christopher Seaman checks out vol. 9 of Kekkaishi and vol. 4 of Rozen Maiden, Scott Campbell reads vol. 16 of Project Arms and vol. 1 of Parasyte, and Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 17 of Red River. At Prospero’s Manga, Ferdinand likes vol. 1 of Warriors and Miranda enjoys Fumi Yoshinaga’s Lovers in the Night. Erica Friedman reviews vol. 10 of Aria at Okazu. Manganews has some new reviews up: Paintings of You, by mjules; vol. 1 of Tanpenshu, by anitra; and Comic AG Super Erotic Manga Anthology no. 19, by huhwhat. At Yaoi Suki, Jen Parker checks out vol. 1 of Innocent Bird. Slightly Biased Manga’s Connie reviews vol. 4 of Lunar Legend Tsukihime, vol. 5 of Law of Ueki, vol. 1 of Black Sun, Silver Moon, and vol. 5 of Dokebi Bride. Katherine Dacey-Tsuei reviews the Netcomics title vol. 1 of 10, 20, and 30, for PopCultureShock. Hung checks out vol. 3 of Nodame Cantabile at the BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog.