I was the guest on ANN’s Chicks on Anime roundtable this week, and I enjoyed a lively discussion of girls and fandom with hosts Bamboo Dong, Casey Brienza, and Sara Pocock. Also, at Robot 6, I give some free advice on site design for webcomics from a reader’s point of view.
David Welsh and Kate Dacey check out this week’s new comics.
Interviews abound! At Good Comics for Kids, Eva Volin and Snow Wildsmith chat with VizKids editor Traci Todd (part 1, part 2). ICv2 talks to Hideki Egami, editor of Ikki magazine, the Japanese source for Viz’s SIGIKKI online comics site. And Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier, writers of X-Men: Misfits (among other things) had a live chat with their fans at Suvudu; you can read the transcript here.
Fruits Basket translators Alethea and Athena Nibley take another stab at literal translation in this week’s column at Manga Life.
Did you know that Manga University has a regular series of Meet the Manga-Ka videos? Shinozaki Yu is the guest on the latest episode.
What’s your favorite Fumi Yoshinaga manga? Vote at The Manga Critic.
Podcast time: The Ninja Consultants discuss webcomics, Japanese and otherwise, in their latest podcast with guest star Chris, creator of The Ego and the Squid. And John Thomas puts in his two cents on Dororo and Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service in the latest Sci-Guys podcast.
News from Japan: ToLoveRu, Noramimi, and Freesia are all coming to an end, and several new manga series will launch in coming months, according to ANN.
Reviews: Unabashed Fumi Yoshinaga fan David Welsh explains why exactly he likes Ooku so much at The Comics Reporter. Melinda Beasi has some suggestions for the best picks from Netcomics, which is having a sale at RightStuf right now.
Joy Kim on vol. 2 of Bamboo Blade (Manga Life)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 2 of Beauty is the Beast (i heart manga)
Julie on vols. 2 and 3 of B.Ichi (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Kinukitty on Black Sun (The Hooded Utilitarian)
Dave Ferraro on vol. 1 of Dinosaur Hour (Comics-and-More)
Katherine Farmar on vol. 2 of Don’t Blame Me (Comics Village)
Ken Haley on vol. 2 of Faust (Manga Recon)
Connie on vol. 11 of Golgo 13 (Slightly Biased Manga)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 4 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (i heart manga)
Michelle Smith on vol. 1 of Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu (Comics Should Be Good!)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 5 of Mixed Vegetables (Manga Life)
asamisgirl on Mr. Flower Groom (The Yaoi Review)
Connie on vol. 7 of Nora: The Last Chronicle of Devildom (Slightly Biased Manga)
Kate Dacey on vol. 1 of Ooku: The Inner Chamber (The Manga Critic)
Connie on vol. 4 of Silver Diamond (Slightly Biased Manga)
Snow Wildsmith on vol. 2 of Sunflower (Manga Jouhou)
Scott VonSchilling on vol. 1 of A Tale of an Unknown Country (The Anime Almanac)
Emily on Ten yori mo Hoshi yori mo (Emily’s Random Shoujo Manga Page)
Bill Sherman on vol. 1 of Venus Capriccio (Blogcritics)
Diana Dang on vols. 1 and 2 of Venus Capriccio (Stop, Drop, and Read!)
Connie on vol. 6 of Wild Ones (Slightly Biased Manga)
Julie on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (Kuriousity)
Erica Friedman on vol. 17 of Yuri Hime (Part 2) (Okazu)
Shevaun Morrison on vol. 6 of Zombie-Loan (Kuriousity)
Thanks as always for the links, Brigid! And I really liked your article on web comic design; very useful information that I’ll certainly utilize towards my own projects :)
A note though on the Manga Jouhou review for volume 2 of Sunflower; it was written by Snow Wildsmith.
Is this post title a reference to the song made famous by Harry Nilsson, by any chance? If so, *heart*. :)
Yup, that was what was running through my head this morning, but I didn’t remember much more than the first line of the song. Thanks!
Sorry, Lissa, I’ll fix the error.
Oh, it’s a great song! My favorite Nilsson tunes are the more obscure ones, though. :)