First, a little self-promotion: Tim O’Shea interviewed me for his blog, Talking with Tim, about the site I edit, Good Comics For Kids. Drop by and check it out!
OK, on to the manga news…
The MangaCast team checks out this week’s new releases. Ed’s advice: Get Real.
Adam Stephanides recently complained about Drawn & Quarterly’s practice of flipping individual panels of manga so the pages read left-to-right. At Comics212 Christopher Butcher defends D&Q, pointing out that they have the creator look over all the flipped pages and that leaving the manga unflipped would drastically reduce the audience.
Katherine Farmar would like to see more translated manga from The Magnificent 49ers, please. (Via Journalista.)
John Jakala writes about his love of extras, including omake, for the latest I ♥ Comics entry at Blog@Newsarama.
At the Yaoi Press blog (note new address), Yamila Abraham feels that Youka Nitta was dealt with too harshly over the tracing thing.
At Manga Life, translators Alethea and Athena Nibley talk about learning Japanese and the staff has sort of a free-form chat about the latest press releases in Manga Bulletin.
People are starting to gear up for SDCC. John Thomas posts a list of Dark Horse events, including apearances by Yoshitaka Amano (Vampire Hunter D) and Yasuhiro Nightow (Trigun) at Mecha Mecha Media. Broccoli Books is going to be there as well, sharing a booth with Aurora. And Sho Murase will be sharing a booth, not on Artists Alley.
New website alert: Nerd Fellowship is a news site with frequent updates on manga, comics, anime, games, and various pop-culture items that are a bit outside the mainstream. It’s well written and, unlike many similar sites, won’t hurt your eyeballs. Go, look.
News from Japan: School Rumble will end next week, and Kodansha will bundle an anime DVD with vol. 26 of Tsubasa.
Reviews: Casey Brienza writes an intelligent review of the Witchblade Takeru manga, something I didn’t think was possible, at ANN. EvilOmar posts some brief manga reviews at About Heroes. Sophie Stevens writes about vol. 6 of Pretty Face at Animanga Nation. Sesho posts an audio review of vol. 5 of Gunslinger Girl and a written review of vol. 6. Cynthia reviews The President’s Time at Boys Next Door. Lissa Pattillo reads vol. 3 of Alive at Kuriousity. Seduce Me After the Show fails to work its magic on Julie at the Manga Maniac Cafe. At Manga Life, Park Cooper concludes his Spotlight on FullMetal Alchemist, Barb Lien-Cooper reviews vol. 2 of Metro Survive, and Joy Kim checks out vol. 9 of Ouran High School Host Club.
Great interview, Brigid! I like your description of Mangablog as the morning news for folks like us. That is certainly how I see it…
School Rumble will be continued as School Rumble Z, the prepublication is moving from Kodansha’s Shonen Magazine to Magazine Special.