The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has posted the nominations for its Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, and as always, manga is well represented.
Laura lists her favorite supernatural shoujo manga at Heart of Manga. And David Welsh is up to the letter C in his shojo-sunjeong alphabet.
Just in time for Halloween, Manga University is starting a new webcomic, Net Auction, by Atsuhisa Okura, the Japanese artist who illustrated the Wired article on manga.
Deb Aoki goes for the classics with her list of 15 essential manga by Osamu Tezuka at About.com. Deb also has the scoop on two manga events: Haruka Minami has cancelled her planned appearance at Yaoi-Con, but Domo-kun creator Tsuneo Goda will be in LA today and will be a guest on Tokyopop’s webcast this evening.
Hey, this is cool: The Ohio State University Libraries have a manga blog, written by Japanese Studies Librarian and Associate Professor Maureen Donovan. From there I found Catholic University of Leuven’s blog, Let’s Manga, which isn’t updated much but has a lot of interesting links to academics and research (such as this essay on manga depictions of the World War II German army).
News from Japan: A new manga, Calendar Boy, turns the Japanese national holidays into manga characters. Sounds kind of interesting. Close the Last Door creator Yugi Yamada is restarting her BL manga based on the novel Mahoro Ekimae Tada Benrikan.
Reviews: David Welsh takes a look at some volume 2s at Precocious Curmudgeon.
Brad Rice on Afterschool Charisma (Japanator)
Michael May on vol. 1 of Bizenghast (Robot 6)
Julie on vol. 1 of Cirque du Freak (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 1 of Crimson Shell (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Michelle Smith on Cowa! (Soliloquy in Blue)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 2 of The Embalmer (i heart manga)
Tangognat on vol. 11 of High School Debut and vol. 18 of Nana (Tangognat)
Connie on vol. 15 of Lovely Complex (Slightly Biased Manga)
Connie on vols. 17 and 18 of Monster (Slightly Biased Manga)
Tangognat on vol. 2 of Rasetsu (Tangognat)
Connie on vol. 19 of Skip Beat (Slightly Biased Manga)
Matthew Rozier on vol. 1 of The Summit of the Gods (Comics Village)
OK, now I’m pissed. France gets BexBoy in French, the whole bleeping magazine, every bleeping month? What, those unwashed wine-swilling brie-eaters are good enough for Libre but we’re not?