Some big news breaking just before Comic-Con: Yen Press is doing a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, retelling the story from the point of view of Claudia. I talked to Rice and Yen Press editor JuYoun Lee about the book and interviewed artist Ashley Marie Witter as well.
Over at MTV Geek, I check out the best of this week’s new manga releases. If you’re wondering “Will she go for Twin Spica????” the suspense is over. David Welsh checks out the newest manga as well at The Manga Curmudgeon, and he joins the rest of the gang at Manga Bookshelf to discuss their pick of the week.
At Comic Book Resources, I interviewed Chuck Austen about his book The Boys of Summer, which was published by Tokyopop but never promoted or even distributed to bookstores (the distributor balked at the adult content). It’s an interesting inside story of everything that can go wrong.
Heidi has the 50 top-selling manga from June 2011 at The Beat; not surprisingly, Naruto tops the list.
The Manga Village team recommends some space manga for your summer reading.
Patrick Macias explores doujinshi in Akihabara in the latest episode of Otakuverse Zero.
Daniella Orihuela-Gruber has already seen Stargazing Dog, and she’s really looking forward to NBM’s edition.
Tony Yao has a license request at Manga Therapy: Shingeki no Kyojin, a shonen manga about the battle between humans and man-eating giants called Titans.
David Welsh reaches the letter Y in his josei alphabet.
David Brothers shows off some pages from Dirty Pair.
Cryptozoic, which picked up the digital rights to Tokyopop’s World of Warcraft manga, has announced its July releases.
News from Japan: Shogakukan is planning a collection of Rumiko Takahashi’s short stories. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki will draw a spinoff manga featuring Rohan Kishibe for a women’s magazine this October. Artist Naoyuki Kageyama (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) is launching a new manga about baseball, Strike Zone!, in the September issue of V Jump. The mahjong manga Saki is going on a brief hiatus.
Reviews: Carlo Santos delivers another stack of rapid-fire reviews of recent releases in his latest Right Turn Only!! column at ANN. Ash Brown chronicles a week’s worth of manga reading at Experiments in Manga. The Manga Bookshelf gang weighs in on this week’s new releases with their latest set of Bookshelf Briefs.
Kristin on vol. 4 of Cross Game (Comic Attack)
Kate O’Neil on vol. 2 of Daniel X (The Fandom Post)
Thomas Zoth on vol. 5 of Gintama (The Fandom Post)
Erica Friedman on Kimi no Tame Nara Shineru (Okazu)
Dave Ferraro on La Quinta Camera (Comics-and-More)
Lori Henderson on The Manga Guide to Relativity (Manga Xanadu)
Anna on vol. 1 of Moon and Blood (Manga Report)
Chris Kirby on vol. 6 of Raiders (The Fandom Post)
Kristin on vols. 1 and 2 of A Strange and Mystifying Story (Comic Attack)
Chris Kirby on vol. 5 of Toriko (The Fandom Post)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 1 of Wandering Son (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
Alexander Hoffman on A Zoo in Winter (Manga Widget)
As much as I would love for Sean to be a contributor for Manga Widget, he did not write the review for A Zoo in Winter.
Ah, a stray bit of HTML messed up that line. I fixed it now—thanks for the heads-up!