Quick Friday update

I can’t believe I missed my own story, but this was a busy week: At PWCW, I talked to marketing manager Kasia Piekarz about how Tokyopop is adjusting to the loss of Kodansha’s licenses.

At Good Comics for Kids, Lori Henderson checks out this week’s all-ages comics and manga.

I was thinking it might be interesting to compare Yen Press’s editions of Yotsuba&! to those put out by ADV, but Cathy beat me to it at it can’t all be about manga. I didn’t realize that Yen had done new translations, but Cathy finds some interesting differences.

Helen McCarthy shows off a sample of her upcoming book The Art of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga.

Alethea and Athena Nibley explain why all that stuff you thought you would never use in high school actually comes in handy for manga translators.

The Manga University folks are giving away a drawing by Ryuto Kanzaki, creator of Samurai Confidential. All you have to do to enter is tweet.

News from Japan: Writer Isuna Hasekura and artist Asuka Katsura, creators of Spice and Wolf, Blood+, and Le Portrait de Petit Cossette, are starting a new series, Billionaire Girl, about a girl who makes a killing doing day trading and her ordinary-guy tutor.

Reviews

Deb Aoki on vol. 1 of Ballad of a Shinigami (About.com)
AstroNerdBoy on vols. 1-23 of Fruits Basket (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Diana Dang on vol. 2 of Gakuen Prince (Stop, Drop, and Read)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (i heart manga)
Joy Kim on vol. 6 of Goong (Manga Life)
Shojo Flash on vol. 5 of Mixed Vegetables (Shojo Flash)
Juile on Mr. Flower Groom (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Ooku: The Inner Chambers (Tangognat)
Matthew J. Brady on vols. 2 and 3 of Pluto (Warren Peace Sings the Blues)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 6 of Sand Chronicles (Manga Life)
Lissa Pattillo on vol. 1 of Shirley (Kuriousity)
Casey Brienza on Where Has Love Gone? (ANN)
Snow Wildsmith on Works (Fujoshi Librarian)
Lexie on vol. 1 of X-Men: Misfits (Poisoned Rationality)