I still have a lot of NYCC material to put up, but I won’t be posting it today as Governor Deval Patrick has chosen this particular moment to complicate my life by giving a Major Speech tonight in my city. As I work for the mayor, today will be a busy day. In the meantime, here’s what everyone else is talking about:
David Welsh gives his take on some comics-related discussions and discusses the death of Monthly Shonen Jump, the Tokyopop ratings system, and other manga news in his Flipped column.
ICv2 has more on the Yen Press announcements.
Blog@Newsarama links to some commentary on the Prince Pickles military propaganda manga.
Chloe reflects on the American Anime Awards.
At Deutsche Mangaka, Elae has the highlights of a chat with Tokyopop Germany head Joachim Kaps.
Otaku Champloo visits a manga cafe in Manila.
A different spin on Christian manga: Otaku News has info about the manga Bible—that is, the manga version of the Bible. I like the fact that it comes in Raw and Extreme editions.
Light novel news: Tokyopop has licensed the Welcome to the NHK light novel and Dark Horse will publish the Oh! My Goddess novel.
The Yaoi Review looks at new releases for March.