[...] Walkin’ Butterfly 1 [...]

[...] josei and ladies’ comics. While Walkin’ Butterfly started acceptably storywise, there were printing and binding problems with the book (the spine was [...]

[...] have previously reviewed book one and book two. There are preview pages at the publisher’s website. (A complimentary copy for this [...]

[...] Walkin’ Butterfly was their first josei book, released in August 2007 as one of their launch titles. (They also publish shojo.) A young woman blames being tall for her lack of purpose and love, until she stumbles into a fashion show and decides to become a model. First, she has to learn to be comfortable in her own skin, a challenge symbolized by the artist drawing the character as a full-body nude. As a personality, she’s prickly, even unlikable, which makes for a challenging yet rewarding read that most women can relate to, given mood swings and body image issues. The remaining three volumes in the series will come out during 2008. [...]

[...] Butterfly Volume 3 (Aurora) — I’ll be covering this later, but I enjoyed the first two [...]

[...] new, female-targeted Aurora. They’ve put out, along with a couple of shojo titles, the josei Walkin’ Butterfly. But even more exciting is their Luv Luv Press line, explicit manga for women. The first book in [...]

[...] to the first volume, there are some publication changes. The paper in book two is softer, less thick, more like other [...]

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson on the first volume of Chihiro Tamaki’s modeling drama, Walkin’ Butterfly. (Above: a [...]

[...] vol. 1 of Gakuen Alice for the somewhere-in-Pennsylvania Times Leader. Johanna Draper Carlson reads vol. 1 of Walkin’ Butterfly at Comics Worth [...]