While at Borders today on a manga-buying excursion — yay for volumes of Mail, The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and Vagabond! — I picked up the March/April issue of Print magazine, which includes blogger David Welsh‘s solid overview of manwha.
That’s Korean comics, for those not in the know.
It’s a good survey piece that runs over six pages — with plenty of art — and features quotes from Ju-Yuon Lee of Ice Kunion, Heewoon Chung of Netcomics and Tran Nguyen of DramaQueen.
As if that’s not enough, the issue also includes profiles of R. Kikuo Johnson (Night Fisher), and book jacket designer and art director Helen Yentus, who helped to recruit comic artists like Charles Burns, Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Anders Nilsen, Seth, Tomer Hanuka to illustrate covers for the Penguin Deluxe Classics series.
All in all, it’s worth the $12.95 cover price.
March 24th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Kevin – which volumes of Mail and KCDS? I’ve been waiting for the 3rd volumes of each. According to Dark Horse’s site they’re out already, but I haven’t seen them available anywhere — online or off.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
The second volumes of each. The third volume of KCDS came out this week (it shows up in my “Next Shipment” list on DCBS).
Mail, Vol. 3, is on Diamond’s shipping list for March 28.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Thanks, Kevin. I wonder if Dark Horse is kind of like a reverse-Viz, with manga showing up in comic shops before they hit bookstores. BN.com shows both Mail v3 and KCDS v3 as “not available” while Amazon shows them as “shipping in 4-6 weeks” and “available for pre-order,” respectively.
March 27th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
…and now Mail Volume 3 is no longer on the 3/28 shipping list. Nor is Akira Club, which, according to DH’s site, is supposed to be out on 3/28.
I really need to learn to ignore DH’s release dates.