August 19, 2011 KC Television Reviews One comment

Batman: The Brave and the Bold Season Two, Part One

Review by KC Carlson How engaging to have another 12 episodes (on two DVDs) of the most charming Batman: The Brave and the Bold series — the first half of Season Two — to dive into. Since I’ve raved at length about previous sets, no need to repeat myself — let’s dive right into more Bat-foolery and Bat-awesomeness! Classic Characters! Guest stars this time around include Plastic Man (and Woozy Winks!), Blue Beetle, Aquaman, The Green Lantern Corps, the Justice […]

August 17, 2011 Johanna Manga News 8 comments

JManga Launches With Print-Level Pricing

The JManga portal (link no longer available), a website selling English translated manga online direct from 39 Japanese publishers who form the Digital Comic Association, is now available (after being discussed for the last month). Features include 168 listed series, many of which are new to the U.S. Free previews Author interviews Manga sorted by genre — shojo, josei (both of which include yaoi), shonen, seinen, and kodomo (new to me, that term means “kids”) — and then subdivided under […]

August 17, 2011 Johanna No Starch Press Manga Reviews One comment

The Manga Guide to the Universe

The latest volume in the Manga Guide series, following The Manga Guide to Relativity earlier this summer, tackles the biggest subject yet. The result is the best Manga Guide so far. The Manga Guide to the Universe by Kenji Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Kawabata, and Yutaka Hiiragi follows the usual pattern — lots of pages of comics with cute girls learning science, backed up by text material that explains the concepts covered in more depth. This volume includes a bit more plot […]

Friends With Boys promo by Faith Erin Hicks

August 16, 2011 Johanna Comic News One comment

Faith Erin Hicks Launches Friends With Boys Online

I’ve been anticipating the next graphic novel from Faith Erin Hicks (The War at Ellsmere, Superhero Girl) since she announced Friends With Boys two years ago. Now, I can start reading it! Friends With Boys will be published by First Second in February 2012, but until then, it’s being serialized online. The Friends With Boys website has launched with the first 32 pages of the book, and it will be updated with a new page every weekday. The comic updates […]

August 15, 2011 Johanna Manga News One comment

This Month’s Manga Moveable Feast: Fumi Yoshinaga, My Favorite

The newest Manga Moveable Feast is dedicated to my favorite manga author, Fumi Yoshinaga. I’ve already reviewed most of her books, including explicit yaoi, tamer boys’ love, school soap opera, restaurant reviews, and the not easily categorizable Antique Bakery. That diversity is one of the things I love most about her work. That, and her beautiful line and distinctively expressive characters. If you’re looking for a good starting point, I highly recommend the single-volume book of short stories All My […]

August 14, 2011 Johanna IDW / Top Shelf Leave a comment

Underwire

Jennifer Hayden‘s autobiographical slice-of-life comics fall into a well-known genre, but her position — as the middle-aged mother of two — provides a viewpoint we don’t often see expressed in comics from such a position of knowledge. Underwire began as a webcomic, and this Top Shelf collection includes 22 of those stories, plus 17 new pages. She tells tales about her family, influenced by sitcom structure. How can you not enjoy cartoons by someone who compares being middle-aged to “like […]

August 14, 2011 Johanna Manga News One comment

Online Manga: A Digital News Roundup — JManga.Com, VizManga.Com, Guild’s First Release

The Digital Manga Guild Releases Its First Title The Digital Manga Guild, a publishing effort that asks fans to translate and edit books for free in return for a profit percentage, is ready to release its first title. Going live tomorrow evening at emanga.com will be Tired of Waiting for Love, a yazuka yaoi by Saki Aida and Yugi Yamada. Although the DMG is set up to work with three-person teams — translator, editor, and letterer — all the work […]

August 12, 2011 Johanna Comic News 3 comments

SPX Programming Posted — Come See My Panel

The programming for SPX 2011 has been posted, and I will be moderating this panel: Navigating the Contemporary Publishing Landscape, Sunday, 1:30 pm In the early 2000s, corporate publishers nearly raced to acquire graphic novels. Now, as the mainstream publishing industry faces severe contractions and as online media assumes many traditional functions of publishing, cartoonists face a rapidly changing publishing landscape, one that includes a resurgent small press. Johanna Draper Carlson will speak with Mike Dawson, Meredith Gran, Roger Langridge, […]

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