Patrick Macias interviews Stan Lee for The Japan Times about his foray into manga at the age of 85.
Vol. 29 of Naruto rises from number 57 to 44 on this week’s USA Today best-seller list.
The UK’s 2007 Eagle Awards have been announced, and Death Note was voted Favourite Manga. (Via ComiPress.)
Thinking about becoming a translator? Fruits Basket translators Alethea and Athena Nibley explain how to break into the biz at Manga Life.
Same Hat posts a video of a French interview with Suehiro Maruo. Yes, it’s in French, but there are glimpses of his studio and other interesting items.
Tangognat looks at the evolution of Boys Over Flowers.
The Sunny Side Up Anime Blog reports that manga prices are going up in Indonesia, but at aot $1.49 a volume, it’s still way cheaper than in the U.S.
News from Japan: ANN reports that Crimson Hero and Chocolate Underground are both ending their runs in Bessatsu Margaret. ComiPress has word of several new manga adaptations of light novels.
Reviews: Katherine Dacey hands a severe drubbing to vol. 1 of Color of Rage, on the grounds of anachronism not just in the details but in the overall concept. Lori Henderson enjoys vol. 3 of Phantom at Manga Xanadu. At Anime on DVD, Briana Lawrence reads Sugar Milk and Patricia Beard reviews vol. 7 of ES: Eternal Sabbath. Mely has eight things to say about vol. 17 of Tsubasa at coffeeandink; there may be some spoilers here for other CLAMP series as well. Tiamat’s Disciple takes a look at vol. 1 of Iono-sama Fanatics, vols. 1-3 of Sword of the Dark Ones, and vol. 1 of Rose Hip Rose. Lissa Pattillo checks out vol. 6 of Welcome to the NHK at Kuri-ousity. Julie is on the mend and ready to review vol. 7 of D. Gray-Man at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Ferdinand finds vol. 3 of Winter Demon pretty good, for a porn series, at Prospero’s Manga. Connie reads vol. 11 of The Law of Ueki at Slightly Biased Manga. New reviews up at Manga Life: Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 11 of Tail of the Moon and vol. 2 of Honey and Clover, Barb Lien-Cooper on The Complete Guide to Manga, and David Rasmussen on vol. 1 of The World of Narue.
Brigid, your posts are being stolen and posted on another site called dusunmesanati.com/haber. Pretty much every post you’ve made recently is copied in full there. Not sure what language that is, thibnk its turkish.
Thanks for the heads-up! I actually noticed this in my trackbacks, and it looks like he’s plagiarizing several other blogs as well. I’m not sure there is anything I can do about it, though, other than take it as a compliment.
Looks like the link to our post with the Tadanori Yokoo, Yoshitaka Amano and Suehiro Maruo video is missing the link… it’s available here:
http://samehat.blogspot.com/2008/05/french-tv-interviews-suehiro-maruo.html
Thanks Ryan! I fixed it.
Just a quick update: a reader sent in a complete English translation/transcript of the aforementioned video, which I’ve now updated this post and included. Very helpful for us non-French speaking folks :)