Friday early post

To minimize damage to your screen, please set down your coffee before you read this: Shaenon Garrity’s overlooked manga festival takes a long look at Skip Beat, a book that my 14-year-old is really enjoying (and now I’m worried!).

ChunHyang72 rounds up the links for her Manga Minute, including some good news for CLAMP fans and an essay on why OEL creators and fans should ignore the naysayers.

At MangaCast, Ed looks at the new Previews and has info on two new titles. He also shares some doujinshi and other oddities.

Gon but not forgotten: Dave Carter is pleased that CMX may be bringing back Gon.

Speaking of Dave Carter, he recently looked at the top selling graphic novels on Amazon. Now David Welsh does the same for manga, and the results may surprise you.

Edit: I’m hoping to go to NYCC and will post when I’m 100% sure. In the meantime, here’s the Del Rey lineup, courtesy of MangaCast.

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Comments

  1. Ahhh! You got a press pass. I haven’t got word on mine yet. I even spoke with Phoenix on Wednesday and she said email notices would be out by today.

    Nervous!!

  2. Actually, I’m not so sure. I’m checking on it.

  3. “sneaky, money-grubbing corporate wheel who is determined to pull the wool over the eyes of the sweet, innocent otaku as you desecrate the sanctity of manga.”
    Tokyopop’s life story.

    All trolling aside, the blogpost was really lowbrow. If you look at what you are reading, the blogger is basically saying that she doesn’t care about what the weathered, tried and true patriarchs of the fandom on ANN think, and that as long as she has her 16 year old girlhoard of fans to shelter her.

    This reminds me of the glory daze starting flamewars on DeviantArt. A DevianTart would go for years posting her traces and chibis as “art” receiving butt pats from the masses. As soon as I could lure one onto a site with real artists like conceptart.org, it was like their whole world falling down.