theOtaku.com has teamed up with Go! Comi and the organizers (same people behind NY Comic-Con) of the New York Anime Festival to hold the Go! Comi and theOtaku.com Doujinshi Contest. The deadline is November 1, all artists are encouraged to send in their five-page doujinshi based on Go! Comi's Black Sun, Silver Moon by uploading the entry to the New York Anime Festival section of theOtaku.com.

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Giapet.net points out a poll on Viz's website that asks various questions about whether people are interested in purchasing their manga by online, which suggests that Viz is considering the option of distributing downloadable manga online like Tokyopop and NETCOMICS.

The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending August 26th:

• #34 - Fruits Basket, Volume 17 - Tokykopop - (Last week: #99)

All New Manga Presents Original Side Story to Best-Selling Vampire Kisses Novels

Los Angeles, CA (August 21, 2007)—TOKYOPOP, the leader of the Global Manga Revolution and Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsChildren's Books, are pleased to announce the September 2007 release of Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives, the first installment of a three-part manga series based on the wonderfully funny popular teen novels, Vampire Kisses.

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In the latest issue of PWCW, Ed Chavez gives a full report of Comiket 72, which took place last week.

Bill Aguiar writes about Udon Entertainment's new Korean manhwa line, and provides an overview of the titles coming this fall.

Brigid Alverson talks about Mark Crilley, the creator of Miki Falls, and receives quite a few response.

Last but not least, Kai-Ming Cha has an interview with Satoru Kannagi, creator of the BL manga Only the Ring Finger Knows.

ICv2 has released the July 2007 top 100 graphic novel sales estimates and the top 300 comics sales estimates based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data. Also from ICv2 is an analysis of the trends in July based on the graphic novel sales chart.

In the latest issue of Flipped, David Welsh interviews CMX's Jim Chadwick (Editor) and Asako Suzuki (Director of Manga), who talk about CMX's recovery as well as growth.

Via: Icarus Blog

Anime News Networking is currently looking for a new Assistant Programmer as well as an Ad Sales Person:

ANN is looking to hire an ad sales-person and an assistant programmer. Both jobs are part time. Details are available here.

The American Library Association has its list of nominations for the Great Graphic Novels for Teens Award, compiled by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Below are a list of manga nominated, compiled by Giapet.net:

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Canned Dogs reports that the Japanese blog Dekadenbiyori is not impressed with the English version of the Shakugan no Shana light novel, commenting on the poor translation and the fact that the protagonist Yuji Sakai's speech are composed of 41% "Ugh," 25% What?!, and the rest some other kinds of exclamatory statements.