Miscellaneous Friday Links
Time to welcome another new blogger to the Comics Blogosphere:
Steve Pheley's Gutterninja
is off to an auspicious start, with great posts on
what
American comic publishers should have learned from the successes of
manga and how
everyone
in comics is haunted by the ever-present specter of superhero comics,
even when they're not publishing, reading, or discussing superhero
comics. Good stuff. (I especially liked the comparison with the
movie industry and how DVD boxes don't feel compelled to explain
defensively "Not all movies are about people falling in love with Meg
Ryan...") Welcome, Steve. (And thanks to
Franklin
Harris for pointing out Steve's blog.)
It's that time of year again: time to
cast
your vote in The Squiddies (Link via
Johanna
Draper Carlson, co-admin for
The
Squiddies.)
Forgot to link to this earlier, but I'm really looking forward to
reading
Fábio
Moon and Gabriel Bá's new all-ages graphic novel,
Ursula,
due out in July from AiT/Planet Lar. I've been enjoying the
potential stories suggested by single panels from Moon and Bá
over the past month or so, so I'm really excited to see what they can
do in a 72-page GN. It's already added to my cart but I wouldn't
be opposed to reviewing an advance copy (hint, hint).
Greg McElhatton takes over the
"Things to Come"
column over at
Ninth Art and
spotlights several other interesting comics coming out in July.
I'm particularly interested in
The Walking Man (which I
found some preview pages for
here)
but I'm sure I'll end up ordering a couple other things from Greg's
list as well.
Going through manga news withdrawal? Well, here's an
interview
with Tokyopop CEO Stuart Levy over at
Japan Today
(via
James
Schee) and a short
New
York Daily News article on the thriving manga boom (via
Kevin
Melrose). I know it's not as much fun as NBA or Dr. Pepper
tie-ins, but there's always next week.
