We're in the home stretch, with only the dessert course left to go! If you have a link for the archive, or a new essay for the feast, please email me. (See instructions below.) I will be collecting submissions over the weekend, and will post the final round-up on Monday, April 30th at 9:00 AM. If you miss the deadline, I can still include your posts in the archive.
On to the links!
For the latest Manga Out Loud podcast, Ed Sizemore and Johanna Draper Carlson host a roundtable discussion of two VIZ Signature titles: Monster and 20th Century Boys. Also participating in the conversation are Daniel Briscoe and artist Faith Erin Hicks (Friends With Boys).
In case you missed it: Seth Hahne, who runs the review site Good OK Bad, posts a thoughtful review of Inio Asano's What a Wonderful World, complete with a helpful infographic showing how all the characters know one another.
Ash Brown joins the chorus of readers praising Q Hayashida's Dorohedoro as 'highly entertaining and visually engaging.' (Also: a little weird.)
At Manga Xanadu, Lori Henderson excavates two more Signature titles from the stack: Bokurano: Ours and Biomega.
Linda Yau, a.k.a. animemiz, files a brief report on Bokurano: Ours.
Over at Comic Attack!, Kristin Bomba tackles the twentieth volume of 20th Century Boys. A friendly word of advice: if you haven't been keeping up with series, you may wish to wait before reading Kristin's review, as she critiques some important plot and character developments.
Are you new to manga? Or in charge of buying graphic novels for your library? You may find my list of seven 'essential' Signature titles a helpful place to begin your exploration of manga for grown-ups.
Manga Bookshelf contributor Angela Eastman backtracks to her own site, Diary of a Bookworm, to reflect on Inio Asano's solanin. 'I didn't get any sort of epiphany from solanin,' she explains. 'Instead it was more of an affinity ' I didn't just relate to these characters, I WAS these characters, trapped, confused, unsure of how to move forward. The best thing solanin did for me was point out that I wasn't alone, that I wasn't actually failing just because I didn't know where my life was supposed to go from here.'
How to Participate in the MMF
To submit a review, essay, podcast, etc. for inclusion in the archive, please do one of the following:
- Send me an email with a link to your contribution. Please do not spam the MMFeast Google Group with your links.
- Post a link to your contribution on Twitter. Please make sure that you address it to @manga_critic and use the #mmf hashtag.
If you do not have a blog, but wish to contribute, please email me. I would be happy to post your essay here at The Manga Critic.
Older reviews and essays may be submitted for inclusion in the MMF archive, though they will not be featured in the daily link posts. Given how large the VIZ Signature catalog is, please be mindful in choosing older essays and reviews for inclusion in the archive; capsule reviews, press releases, or brief essays should be excluded. If your essay/review/podcast has been featured in one or more previous MMFs, please consider highlighting it at your own site during the MMF week, rather than resubmitting it for this month's archive.
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