The MangaCasters look at this week’s new manga and discuss their picks. Also: Ed Chavez checks out the offerings in the July Previews and looks at the new manhwa recently announced by Tokyopop.
At TZG 2.0 Myk reveals what he’s buying this week.
I really enjoy the blog Polite Dissent, in which a real doctor fact-checks medical stories on TV and in comics. If you’re reading Apothecarius Argentum (and really, it’s worth a look if you like shoujo), stop by and check out his discussion of the poisons involved. (This blog is also a great companion to “House,” BTW).
Tokyopop web guy Jim Devico is working hard on version 2.0 of the site, and he’s looking for a few good beta testers.
CPM has confirmed the lineup Andre spotted the other day, and ANN has put them into a handy grid.
The Groovy Age of Horror has an introduction to horror manga.
Radio station KQED has a discussion on manga that you can listen to as a podcast. (Via Simon Jones.)
Will that recent court case holding server owners responsible for pirated works put a chill on scanlations? Mangaijin puts it in perspective.
The Japanese high school manga competition has begun, and the big publishers are sending scouts. Back in the U.S., Anime Expo is holding an amateur artist competition.
Speaking of manga competitions, Ryan and Evan post the winners of their 4-koma contest at Same Hat! Same Hat!!
The Jakarta Post examines the popularity of manga, manhwa, and manhua in Indonesia.
Curious about copyright? The Library of Congress sums up the basis in a manga-styled, slighly animated comic. It’s surprisingly cute and well done. If you want to take it to the next level, Heidi MacDonald has some advice for creators.
Reviews: At Read About Comics, Greg McElhatton says vol. 4 of Yotsuba&! was well worth the wait. Ferdinand is underwhelmed by vol. 1 of Eden: It’s an Endless World and Miranda is lukewarm toward vol. 1 of Gunsmith Cats Burst at Prospero’s Manga. At Manga Life, Dan Polley reviews vol. 5 of Kurogane. Kethylia reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Genju no Seiza. Holly Ellingwood checks out The Anime Encyclopedia and Scott Campbell reads vol. 8 of Claymore at Active Anime. The Anime on DVD gang lays down some Small Bodied Manga Reviews. Tangognat reviews vol. 1 of Apothecarius Argentum. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie reviews vols. 1 and 2 of Saint Marie, vol. 5 of Can’t Lose You, and vol. 3 of Saint Seiya.
I hope they do a complete overhaul of the TP website. It’s so garish and poorly organized it’s nearly unusable. Maybe I’m just not their target audience.
Are we really supposed to get excited about CPM coming back? For one, who’s to say that they’ll stick around, they were supposed to get back up on the horse years ago. For another, other than Hard Boiled Angel, I don’t see anything other than romance books;which is fine ,but you can find that everywhere, how about something different for a change. And where’s Nambul, you know, one of the best manhwa to ever be published in Anerica? Are we just supposed to forget about it now?
Mark, in the original post I made in AnimeonDVD’s forums, a new volume of Nambul was among the titles I’d discovered—- it looks like by 2008, we’ll see a large number of CPM’s stalled series relaunched with new volumes. The only one I didn’t find was World of Narue, but it’s likely they’ll schedule that again soon too.
I’m all for another publisher with a decent slate of books myself. CPM’s been around for decades [near or over 20 years], and it’d be a shame to see them fade into the sunset. Seeing a revived slate of manga titles, among other things, is good to see.