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Just a couple of reviews this time around:

• Micole at Coffee and Ink on Vampire Knight, v. 4 and Kaput and Zosky.
• Joanna at Comics Worth Reading on Honey and Clover, v. 1.

FYI, my comment notifications don’t appear to be coming through at the moment, so I apologize for any delays in responding to or moderating comments.

• David Welsh of Precocious Curmudgeon highlights offerings from Manga Month in Diamond’s Previews catalog. I happen to have gotten my hands on an advance reading copy of one of the titles he mentions, Seichi Hayashi’s Red Colored Elegy, and am looking forward to reading it when I have some spare time.
• John Jakala of Sporadic Sequential (whose blog had been sadly quiet for a while) notes the listing of a Bleach artbook on Amazon. Much as I have enjoyed Tite Kubo’s art in Bleach, that particular artbook doesn’t tempt me so much. However, I have shelled out embarrassing amounts of money at Kinokuniya to get my hands on Kazuya Minekura’s four (!) Saiyuki artbooks. The one artbook I am particularly coveting right now is CLAMP’s for Tsubasa and xxxHolic. What artbooks do all of you own or want to own?
• Over at Comics Should Be Good, commenters are discussing where they buy their comics. (My answer: Amazon and occasionally Borders, as my otherwise excellent local comics shop never seems to have the most recent volumes of manga series I read in a timely manner. In the end, though, I mostly obtain my reading material via the library where I work and interlibrary loan.)
• At MangaBlog, Brigid reviews Osamu Tezuka’s MW.

• Over at Asia Pacific Arts, Gene Yang talks about the growth of Asian American comics and his current projects in The Second Life of Gene Yang. Am I a geek for being excited by the prospect of a comic about the Boxer Rebellion?
• David Welsh’s Flipped column has found a new home at The Comics Reporter.
• Eli Neiburger expounds on the joys of Adult Swim over at Pop Goes the Library. As Eli notes, Adult Swim has been a major force in popularizing anime, especially with teens, and it’s aired a lot of my favorite series including Cowboy Bebop and Fullmetal Alchemist.

Looking for more manga news and reviews? Don’t miss the relaunch of Manga Life. This week there are reviews of Sand Chronicles 1, Nana 8, and Hell Girl 1, as well as a new column by translators extraordinaire Athena and Alethea Nibley. I’ll be moonlighting as one of their writers as well and will post a link here when my first review goes live.

I’ve happily added a new comics blog to my feed reader this week: Asian American Comics [Link via Angry Asian Man]. It promises “the latest scoop on Asian American comics and Asian American comic book creators,” and from what I’ve seen so far, it’s delivering.

Here are just a few of the great links that I’ve come across thanks to this blog:

• Asian American Sequential Artists Resource Guide: “A guide to Asian American cartoonists, Asian American comic strips, and Asian American comic books.”
• Comics and 21st Century Learning: Written by Gene Yang, creator of American Born Chinese.
• The Outsiders: Asian/Asian-American Characters in Comics: The “ultimate listing of Asian/Asian American characters in mainstream comics,” compiled by Jenn at Reappropriate.

Visit the site on your own for more great content!

Bryan Lee O’Malley of Scott Pilgrim fame shares the cover he drew for the March 2008 issue of Shojo Beat. Along the way, he plugs two Shojo Beat titles, Nana and Beauty Pop. I’m a big fan of the former but unfamiliar with the latter; I’ll have to add it to my to-read list. [Via Precocious Curmudgeon]

David Welsh reviews A.I. Revolution at Precocious Curmudgeon.

The jury for the Andre Norton Award has announced their additions to the final ballot:

• Adam Rex, The True Meaning of Smekday
• Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, The Shadow Speaker
• Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

(For those of you unfamiliar with it, the Andre Norton Award is awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and honors “outstanding science fiction and fantasy novels written for the young adult market.”)