Viz has announced that Marc Weidenbaum will be the new Vice President, Magazines, and editor of Shonen Jump and Shoujo Beat. An awesome responsibility, to be sure.
Marc Weidenbaum started at VIZ Media as the Managing Editor of SHONEN JUMP and was promoted to Editorial Director, when he helped launch the successful NARUTO Collector series of magazines.
Previous to joining VIZ Media he was an Editorial Director at Citysearch.com and editor at Pulse!, the magazine published by Tower Records, where among other things he edited the comics pages for a decade and founded Tower’s first online publication. He has edited comics that have appeared in such books as Adrian Tomine’s Scrapbook (Drawn & Quarterly) and Justin Green’s Musical Legends (Last Gasp). He also wrote the afterword for VIZ Media’s award-winning manga SEXY VOICE AND ROBO.
OK, but where is Yumi Hoashi?
Tokyopop editor Tim Beedle is all fired up about Blank, the global manga he’s been editing, so he’s posting extras to his blog and art page all month. And Lillian DP is equally enthusiastic about Wild Adapter, which won’t be out until February.
Volume 11 of Tsubasa debuts at number 3 on the Book Standard Comics and Graphic Novel chart.
Simon Jones reassures us that the recent complaint about sex in shoujo manga in Japan won’t amount to much. And then he pimps his latest adult book. (NSFW)
Tina Anderson has more to say about creators and reviewers.
Comics-and-more devotes this Manga Monday to the first volume of La Corda d’Oro and the third volume of Hikaru no Go.
Tina’s gist was right IMO — manga /anime and the internet is a match made in heaven. Or Yin and Yang perhaps — you need a balance of the two to maintain an equilibrium.
I would enjoy anime and manga much more if the internet did not exist.