Manga Baking, Baby Paranoia

Great Moments in Manga Baking (features scans of Antique Bakery, Yakitate! Japan, and Iron Wok Jan)

Baby Paranoia Contest (win a mini-comic)

scans, fall anime, kids book blog awards

The Journalista guide to manga scanlations is now illustrated

Irresponsible Pictures looks at Fall anime

Children’s lit bloggers seem to be so organized, and they keep coming up with new projects like blog awards for children’s books.

Bleach, Pirates, Light Novels, Death Note

This week’s Flipped column is dedicated to Bleach, one of my favorite shonen manga. Chicken Spaghetti pointed out this nice Pirate bibliography for kids. In keeping with other manga companies targeting younger readers, Seven Seas is starting a “light novel” line. Here’s the official web site for the anime version of Death Note.

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afro samurai, free comics, library blogs

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 [...]

goon squad, pencil marks, LC trauma

Public Library Good Squad {via} Marking up a library book Scary Library of Congress class

More Potter, Librarians with aprons, weird acronyms

Draco and the Malfoys {via} In anime, librarians wear maid outfits (youtube link) Library organizations with funny acronyms: MARBI: Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee MARS: Machine-Assisted Reference Section BRASS: Business Reference and Services Section

If you go to a MARS event at ALA, it is almost guaranteed that someone will tell you that you are hanging [...]

Pillows and Manglish

Pillows Interview Manglish?{via}

Viz interview, Tokyopop@the library, New Edge of the Forest

David Welsh chats with Yumi Hoashi from Viz Tokyopop sponsors library summer reading program {via Mangablog} New issue of Edge of the Forest is up.

ninja librarian, pseudo manga shakespeare, too much legion

Ninja Librarian, if it were a movie I would totally watch it. Wiley will publish manga-style Shakespeare adaptations. I’ve read the first 4 Legion of Super-Heroes archive editions in the past 48 hours. Now I’m thinking that I’ll need to change my name to “Tango Lass”. Really, my brain is mush. Those silver-age DC comics [...]

Wedding Crap

If you would like to plumb the depths of the wedding industry, you can check out the Godawful Wedding Crap Blog.