In my post about Tokyopop’s Rising Stars contest, I seem to have fused Derek Kirk Kim (Same Difference and Other Stories) and Eric Kim (Love as a Foreign Language). My only defense is that either would serve the point I was making, and that I was twitterpated by a fog of admiration for both. Or, I’m just kind of stupid. (Thanks for the anality, Joe!)
Speaking of the Rising Stars thing, Immelda Alty at Love Manga has weighed in on her favorites. (I agree with her completely about “The Perfect I Love You,” which could have fit quite neatly into SOS or a similar shojo anthology.)
At Comic World News, Shawn Hoke details his budding crush on manga in the latest Past the Front Racks. As with so many innocent comics readers, Planetes was his gateway drug. But Shawn proves he’s no poser by admitting he’s mainlining the hard stuff: Hikaru No Go and Imadoki! It’s a great primer for any comic fan looking wistfully but hesitantly over his shoulder at the shelves of digests as they pick up their weekly haul.
I’m inching ever closer to brainwashing the awesome Lea Hernandez into actually doing a comic about a vet student who treats mythical creatures. Help pick a likely publisher, won’t you? (My first inclination was to say Top Shelf, but that might be because I’m still under the influence of the second volume of Owly, which should be registered as a controlled substance.)