Once again, Entertainment Weekly has surprised me by providing a useful piece of information. I had no idea there was a new autobiography of the late, deeply lamented Julia Child, much less one that focused on her time in France. Anyway, My Life in France, written with Alex Prud’Homme, is due in bookstores today. Given my well-documented love for culinary memoirs, Child, and stories with a strong sense of place, I think I know how my next Borders Rewards coupon will be used.
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I first saw this mentioned at Brigid’s MangaBlog, and now news of Go! Comi’s round of second printings of first volumes has shown up on ICv2. This news delights me probably more than it should, but I’m really glad to see Go! Comi succeed. I think they’ve been really smart in their first year – a small initial list of titles, excellent production values and extras, and strong licensing choices. I think what’s most heartening is that they don’t seem to have assumed that publishing manga is a license to print money, concentrating on quality over volume. I’m glad to see that it’s worked out for them.
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I’ve confined myself to digests as far as Shojo Beat titles go, but I think I’ll have to pick up the current issue for the interview with Keiko Takemiya. I can always skip the titles I don’t want to spoil and laugh at the god-awful Godchild script.
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I’m really looking forward to Wednesday’s trip to the comic shop. There’s a new volume of Girl Genius at long last, Agatha Heterodyne & the Circus of Dreams, and I know I could be reading it online, but it’s just not my preferred delivery system. Sue me.
It’s also a big week for Digital Manga Publishing with new volumes of Antique Bakery, Café Kichijouji de, How to “Read” Manga: Gloom Party, and La Esperança. Pace yourself, DMP.
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And now, I must once again bitterly mourn the loss of the drop-down menus on Tokyopop’s web site. As a blogger who always tries to link to title information whenever possible or relevant, this adds all kinds of pesky layers to the process. Those menus made Tokyopop’s site my hands-down favorite of any manga publisher because it was so easy to find what I needed. (It still loads more quickly than Viz’s site, though.)