Good reads for a summer afternoon

Clockwork Hands creator Madeleine Rosca, a runner-up in the International Manga Awards, blogs about her trip to Japan.

ComiPress reports that the Japanese manga magazine Comic BomBom will cease publication after the December issue. But when Kodansha closes one door, another door opens: Monthly Shonen Rival, aimed at the junior high crowd, will launch in the spring.

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez has info on BL novels from June as well as some previews for you to check out.

Tim Bollinger has an interesting article about The Manga Bible, which is actually a manga version of the New Testament, at the NZ Herald.

The New York Post looks at manga versions of Shakespeare.

The Star of Malaysia has an article about copyright and the Doraemon doujinshi and another on the problems facing foreign would-be manga artists in Japan.

Going to San Diego? Heidi has the Del Rey schedule.

Meanwhile, ANN has info on some new manga debuting in Japan, including one by Honey and Clover manga-ka Chika Umino.

Good grief, it’s manga Charlie Brown! The blogger who posted this didn’t like it, but I think it’s pretty clever.

An art exhibit in Australia takes its inspiration from manga.

Reviews: Hey! Hige’s back! His first manga review in a while is of vol. 11 of Evangelion. David Welsh devotes this week’s Flipped column to Beauty Pop. Hung checks out vol. 1 of Puri Puri, vol. 2 of Galaxy Angel Beta, and the “emo manga,” vol. 1 of To Terra, at the BasuGasuBakuhatsu Anime Blog. Huamulan3 reviews Tenshi Ja Nai at Japanator. At The Star of Malaysia, Kitty Sensei reviews vol. 3 of The Embalmer and Pauline Wong checks out vol. 1 of Canon. Michael Aronson reviews vols. 2-4 of Astro Boy at Manga Life. At the Manga Maniac Cafe, Julie has an early look at vol. 1 of King of Cards. Connie’s on a roll at Slightly Biased Manga, with recent reviews of vol. 3 of Let’s Be Perverts, vols. 14, 15, 16, and 17 of Detective Conan, vol. 8 of Sgt. Frog, vol. 7 of Boy Princess, vol. 1 of Apothecarius Argentum, vol. 4 of Bird Kiss and vol. 13 of Tsubasa.

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Comments

  1. I remember seeing that “manga Charlie Brown” a long time ago… Like, one or two years ago, I think. If I recall correctly, it was just a fanartist posting some pics on devart, and nothing ever came of it.

  2. Reminds me of the Real Ampan Man works out there. That’s a little more forgivable.

    http://tieasy.cool.ne.jp/real/other/anpan.jpg

    http://www.mrynasu.net/merry/look/images/look_famous06.jpg

  3. Looks like you linked out to the wrong article on the New York Post/Shakespeare piece…It’s linking out to a review of Canon on thestar.com…

  4. Sorry! It’s fixed now.

  5. The writer of that manga-hating blog post… is he for real? Manga treatment for “western” cartoon Pokemon? He’s kidding, right? I guess I should be glad he even know what manga means… boy when the “mainstream” gets a hold of J-POP culture, funny and/or incredibly stupid things usually results.