I didn’t realize Publishers Weekly did alternate covers, but this week there seem to be two, and Naruto is the cover boy on one of them. The other has a Bible, and inside is this cover story about new ways to present the Good Book, including manga. And at PWCW, Kai-Ming Cha interviews Chinese comics artist Rain.
David Welsh gives his take on the September direct market sales figures.
Telophase posts some choice doujinshi from her recent trip to Japan. (Via Sporadic Sequential.)
The Borderline Hikkikomori picks her five favorite manga artists.
At the Icarus Comics blog (slightly NSFW), Simon Jones highlights the adult manga selections in the November Previews.
Writer Daniel Pink is working on what may be the first global business manga.
Digital Manga has a new catalog, and they are handing out prizes to promote it.
Ending hours of speculation, ComiPress reports that the Japanese manga Negima? neo, an alternate version of Negima, will continue in another magazine after Comic Bom Bom closes down.
Viz and Tokyopop folks will be at the Akibahara Manga Festival, with Stu Levy leading a seminar on the manga market in the U.S.
Vertical will be bringing the latest Aranzi Aronzo books and merch to the Maker Faire in Austin, TX, on Oct. 20-21.
Reviews: At Prospero’s Manga, Miranda has kind words for vol. 1 of Missing. Lori Henderson scores a hat trick at Manga Life with reviews of vol. 5 of Chibi Vampire, vol. 1 of St. Lunatic High School, and vol. 14 of Fullmetal Alchemist. At Anime on DVD, Ben Leary checks out the Tokyopop novel Magic Moon and the staff kicks in some Small Bodied Manga Reviews. Julie reviews Manga: The Complete Guide and vol. 5 of Baby and Me at the Manga Maniac Cafe. PWCW checks out vol. 3 of MPD-Psycho (scroll down, as there’s no permalink).
Kind of a shocking variance between those two Publisher’s Weekly covers… I wonder how most otaku would reply to being asked straight-up, “Naruto or the Bible”?
The Naruto cover on the Publisher Weekly site seems to say “advertisement” on the top, so I’d guess that it’s not exactly like the alternate/variant covers we see on popular comic books, but something more like paid “outsert” ad space that lots of magazines and newspapers sell. Bet VIZ dropped some major coin for that ad…
Yay for more Aranzi Aronzo!! :3 I recently got Cute Dolls and well… soon to be released I guess, Cute Things! He’s got really cute designs and stuff! So much fun! :3