Comments on: Classical Medley Book 1

By: Kiichi and the Magic Books Book 2 » Comics Worth Reading

Kiichi and the Magic Books Book 2 » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:14:57 +0000

[...] art work is well done. As Brigid pointed out in the comments to another review, Amano has very little tone work in his art. Instead, he relies on cross-hatching to achieve [...]

By: Good Comics for Kids » Linkfest: SDCC and more

Good Comics for Kids » Linkfest: SDCC and more — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:14:26 +0000

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson enjoys Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! #1 at Comics Worth Reading. She also takes a look at a teen-frienly manga, vol. 1 of Apothecarius Argentum, and blog colleague Ed Sizemore reviews vol. 1 of Classical Medley. [...]

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » July 25, 2008: Culling the herd

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:40:11 +0000

[...] Ed Sizemore on the first volume of Sanae Kana’s children’s fantasy series, Classical [...]

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Quick news and reviews

MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Quick news and reviews — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:59:34 +0000

[...] Diamond at PopCultureShock’s Manga Recon blog. At Comics Worth Reading, Ed Sizemore reviews vol. 1 of Classical Medley and vol. 4 of Mushishi. Tiamat’s Disciple records thoughts and impressions on vols. 1-3 of [...]

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:38:46 +0000

Brigid,

Your right, Kiichi is also a Flex title.

By: Brigid

Brigid — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:31:54 +0000

I believe Kiichi and the Magic Books is a Flex title as well, and the art for that is detailed and kind of unusual—the artist uses more hatching than toning.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:20:44 +0000

Oh, I didn’t think of looking for their website. And if they can use detailed art as well, then bad for me for jumping to conclusions about the style.

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:56:03 +0000

I wouldn’t mind the gimmick of musical names, if music was a significant part of the manga. I agree it’s odd to have all these musical terms and no actual use of music.

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:53:10 +0000

It looks like Flex is a Japanese company that specializes in serializing their manga by web and cell phone. They then collect these comics into book form like other manga publishers. I checked out their website (http://www.flex-comix.jp/index.html) and the artwork runs the gambit from simplified & flat to detailed & with depth.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:29:54 +0000

Isn’t Flex manga the company that does manga for cellphones, that DC is co-publishing this with (or translating it for the US or something)? That might explain the simplified, flat art style.

I just can’t get over the gimmick of naming all the characters after musical terms.