Matt Thorn, Spider-Man, and more!

Sorry about my untimely absence yesterday—I had an unusually busy morning. If you haven’t caught this already on someone else’s blog, I hope you’ll check out my interview with pioneer translator and manga scholar Matt Thorn. That’s him in the drawing at left, which was done by est em, his former student and the creator of Seduce Me After the Show and Red Blinds the Foolish, which Matt translated. Also up at PWCW: Lynn Andriani on cooking manga.

ICv2 also has an interview with a manga pioneer, Tokoypop CEO Stu Levy, who talks about the early days at Tokyopop and his plans for the future (part 1, part 2)

David Welsh scans this week’s new manga at Precocious Curmudgeon, and Kate Dacey compiles a handly list of Viz titles he’d like to see in omnibus format.

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez does some NYCC followup with cover images of the new titles announced by Viz and Del Rey. Meanwhile, Deb Aoki has a thorough report on the CMX panel and a photo gallery up at About.com.

John Jakala is pleased by the prospect of Japanese Spider-Man manga from Marvel.

Tangognat has more manga recommendations for kids; this time it’s manga for a 6-year-old girl.

Here’s a cute set of artwork by a former Tokyopop designer, depicting some of his former colleagues.

Lissa Pattillo spots more possible new releases on Amazon.

News from Japan: InventorSpot notes an otaku-friendly blood donation center in Akiba, which started out with maids doing the dirty work and now offers free manga for donors to read while giving blood. At The Eastern Edge, Gottsu-Iiyan spots a comic-within-a-comic from 20th Century Boys making a real-life appearance in Big Comic Spirit. He also notes that the am/pm convenience stores’ manga rental program is kind of redundant, as people loiter in the stores and read the manga for free anyway. Ed Chavez posts the weekly manga rankings from Taiyosha at MangaCast.

Reviews: The Manga Recon team combs through the latest Viz releases in the On the Shojo Beat column.

Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of 20th Century Boys (Prospero’s Manga)
Charles Tan on vol. 1 of 20th Century Boys (Comics Village)
A Library Girl on vol. 5 of After School Nightmare (A Library Girls’ Familiar Diversions)
Julie on vol. 5 of Basilisk (Manga Maniac Cafe)
John Thomas on vol. 3 of Black Jack (Comics Village)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 2 of Captive Hearts (Manga Life)
Lissa Pattillo on The Devil’s Secret (Kuriousity)
Barb Lien-Cooper on Dororo and Real (Manga Life)
Dick McVengeance on Gimmick! (Japanator)
Micole on vol. 11 of Her Majesty’s Dog (coffeeandink)
Connie on vol. 2 of Hotel Africa (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vol. 5 of I Shall Never Return (Slightly Biased Manga)
Melinda Beasi on vols. 1-15 of Let Dai (Manga Recon)
Julie on vol. 11 of Love*Com (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Kiara on vol. 2 of Metro Survive (Manga Jouhou)
Michelle Smith on vols. 2 and 3 of One Piece (soliloquy in blue)
Emily on Ookamitachi no Gohoubi (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Connie on vol. 11 of Pastel (Slightly Biased Manga)
Dale North on vol. 1 of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Japanator)
Micole on vol. 1 of Shinobi Life (coffeeandink)
Chloe Ferguson on vols. 2 and 3 of Walkin’ Butterfly (Manga Recon)

Did you enjoy this article? Consider supporting us.

Comments

  1. Howdy! Those One Piece reviews at Soliloquy in Blue were actually me. :)

  2. Thanks, Michelle! I had typed it all in right, but something went wrong with the coding and I lost part of the previous line, which mashed the two together. It’s fixed now!

  3. Yay, thanks. :)