Thursday late roundup

Between extra hours at work and out-of-town guests, I’m falling a bit behind on my blogging. Here’s a late roundup of what’s going on:

It’s school vacation time, so apparently Wired is letting third-graders write their blog. At least, that’s the only explanation I can think of for today’s display of spleen towards manga readers.

Newsarama talks to Divalicious creators T Campbell and Amy Mebberson. The snotty kids show up in the first comment on this story but are quickly smacked down by the grownups. (Via Comics Worth Reading.)

MangaCast runs through this week’s comics, but with both Ed and Erin in Japan, it’s rather terse. Jarred is minding the store, and he’s linking to lots of previews.

Retrospective watch: At Comics-and-more, Dave lists his top ten comics of 2006, and quite a few manga make the list. At the MangaCast, you can check out the audio version of the first batch of 2006 publishers’ report cards. At Okazu, Erica puts up her Top Ten Yuri Countdown for 2006.

Dark Horse interviews Yoshitaka Amano.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has reviews of two new Tokyopop titles, Kamiyadori and Utopia’s Avenger, both vol. 1s. Active Anime’s Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 14 of W Juliet vol. 1 of Vampire Knight, and the anthology Because I’m a Boy. Mangamaniaccafe likes vol. 2 of The Day of Revolution. At Anime on DVD, Megan Meinhard takes a look at vol. 1 of Our Everlasting, a 2005 18+ title from DMP. Kethylia has mixed feelings about # 00 of Rush. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie takes on vol. 8 of Hikaru no Go, vol. 8 of xxxHolic, vol. 13 of Dragon Ball, and vol. of Bird Kiss. And Pata has a new Right Turn Only!! column up at ANN, with reviews of recent volumes of xxxHolic, ES: Eternal Sabbath, and Eden, among others.

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