Journalista (relaunched at its new site) has a long post on the Tokyopop online exclusives and the recent Stuart Levy interview.
It can’t all be about manga writes about the online exclusives too, and takes the opportunity to break down current buying habits.
I don’t buy that many Tokyopop books compared to other publishers. I buy Fruits […]

Air Gear #1 by Oh!Great (amazon)
Itsuki Minami rules the schoolyard, easily beating up anyone that encroaches on his territory. Much like the Disney version of Cinderella, he has befriended a flock of birds, so it is easy to spot him because they hover wherever he goes. Itsuki has learned his fighting moves due to […]

PW Comics Week has a brief article on guidelines for fighting comics censorship in libraries. ALA’s guidelines for dealing with challenges to graphic novels are available here.

Flipped has an interview with Robin Brenner.

I’m looking forward to September, which oddly enough has two action movies coming out that I’m really looking forward to. The first is Crank, because I am a big fan of the cinematic oeuvre of Jason Statham. I adore the Transporter movies, so there is no way that I’m not going to be there opening […]

I never thought I’d see manga influenced yarn, but it looks like Alchemy Yarns now has a colorway called Full Metal Alchemist. So if you need some yarn in various hues of yellow, there you go!

Greg wrote:
I recently picked-up Graphic
Novels: Stories to Change Your Life and have found it to be a great
resource.
On p. 59 “From Iraq” by Greg Cook is recommended.
LOC, OCLC, web searches yield nothing.
Any leads?
I wonder if the book listed is actually Iraq Project, listed as forthcoming from First Second. Was there any indication in the Gravett […]

Manolo gives advice on shoes for librarians

D. Gray-man by Hoshino Katsura (amazon)
D.Gray-Man takes place in an imaginary late 19th century England where the populace is haunted by demons called akuma. The akuma are created by a mysterious man called the Millennium Earl, who combines machinery and recently departed souls to form demons with destructive power. Allen Walker is a teenager who […]

Afro Samurai Trailer {via}
Pata presents a guide to summer anime
Yet Another Comics blog is giving away 100 comics! All you need to do is submit an entry of a comic that you consider to be an “undiscovered gem”. There are already some recommendations up.
Looking at Liblogs, the great middle - an interesting follow-up study listing […]