Big news for One Piece fans: Viz will start running the latest chapters of the manga in Shonen Jump starting in the fall. (Funimation will also start streaming the anime within one hour of its Japanese release.) At Manga Xanadu, Lori Henderson wonders how Viz will compensate for the huge gap in releases (One Piece is up to vol. 20 here and vol. 53 in Japan.)
The news hook this blog post by Yidi Yu is that the Viz original manga program isn’t dead; editor Eric Searleman came to Editors Day at the Savannah College of Art and Design to answer questions for aspiring artists, along with several of his counterparts from other publishers. Searleman said that Viz is looking for good stories, not just a particular style of art, but Yu is a bit skeptical as to whether that would work. Click through, because it’s a really interesting post.
Charles Brownstein of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund comments on recent stories about the case and argues that the statute under which Handley is being charged is unconstitutional and should be overturned in court.
This week’s license request from David Welsh is a fan favorite: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikô.
Ed Chavez lists the manga in this month’s Previews at MangaCast.
Yoshihiro Tatsumi is everyone’s manga-ka of the moment, it seems, after his appearance last weekend at TCAF. Deb Aoki interviewed him, Same Hat’s Ryan met him, Hooded Utilitarian’s Bill Randall does some compare-and-contrast with covers of Tatsumi’s manga.
Deb also talked to Christopher Butcher, manager of the Toronto comics shop The Beguiling, blogger at Comics212, and one of the moving forces behind TCAF.
Yamila Abraham of Yaoi Press reports that Happy Yaoi Yum Yum is running a bit late, but she’s happy to see that it will continue to be distributed to comics shops.
Issue 2 of Street Fighter Magazine is available for download, and it contains articles on all things Street Fighter (games, anime, manga) as well as an interview with Udon’s Matt Moylan.
News from Japan: Gia reports that Young Gangan announced some sort of mystery project with Gainax, to be revealed more fully in the next issue. ANN has a bit more. Comic Birz will carry a manga adaptation of the game and anime Arad Senki. MangaCast has the latest manga rankings from Taiyosha.
Reviews: Matthew J. Brady puts together some mini-reviews of old and new manga at Warren Peace Sings the Blues.
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Animal Academy (Tangognat)
Connie on vol. 13 of Banana Fish (Slightly Biased Manga)
Michelle Smith on vols. 7 and 8 of Beauty Pop (Soliloquy in Blue)
Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1 and 2 of Clan of the Nakagamis (Fujoshi Librarian)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 6 of Comic (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Connie on vol. 4 of I Hate You More Than Anyone (Slightly Biased Manga)
James Fleenor on vol. 1 of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (Anime Sentinel)
Julie on vol. 1 of Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Emily on Koibito de Akuma (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Danielle Leigh on Living for Tomorrow (Comics Should Be Good)
Connie on vol. 5 of Monkey High (Slightly Biased Manga)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 1 of Nabari no Ou (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Edward Zacharias on vol. 35 of Naruto (Animanga Nation)
Connie on vol. 3 of Oishinbo: Ramen and Gyoza (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on Over the Rainbow (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lissa Pattillo on Project X: Seven Eleven (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 23 of Red River (Comics Village)
Kinukitty on Restart (The Hooded Utilitarian)
Billy Aguiar on vol. 1 of Samurai Harem: Asu no Yoichi (Prospero’s Manga)
Connie on vol. 3 of Vagabond (VizBig edition) (Slightly Biased Manga)
I’ll read any good story with any art so long as the art isnt distracting (hard to read or understand whats going on in the panels). I generally dont like color unless its simple or painterly, no so saturated.
Correction: Mr. Searleman came to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), not SVA (School of Visual Arts), though I’m sure the administration here would be halfway flattered at the confusion, hahaha.
Fixed it! Thanks, Kiri!
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