Great Moments in Manga Baking (features scans of Antique Bakery, Yakitate! Japan, and Iron Wok Jan)
Baby Paranoia Contest (win a mini-comic)
Great Moments in Manga Baking (features scans of Antique Bakery, Yakitate! Japan, and Iron Wok Jan)
Baby Paranoia Contest (win a mini-comic)
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.
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.
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 many library blogs that were new to me.
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 out with Martians.
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 are crazy.
If you would like to plumb the depths of the wedding industry, you can check out the Godawful Wedding Crap Blog.