Yuri Manga
Ultra Jump’s Yuri Anthology Yuritora Jump (ユリトラジャンプ～ウルトラジャンプ百合アンソロジー～) is out this week in Japan, and can be ordered by those with Japanese IP access on Kindle.
English-language edition of Yukiko’s Futaribeya, the Yuri-ish story about two roommates (from Tokyopop!) will hit shelves next week. Tokyopop is also working on the English language edition of Yuri Kuma Arashi – Yuri Bear Storm, Volume 1 will be shipping in winter.
Yuri is My Job, Volume 1 by Miman is available for pre-order, it’ll be shipping in the new year.
Comixology is now picking up indie Yuri manga. Check out Kotonoha, Volume 1 by Kisu Gae. You can also catch Lily Marble, Volume 1 from the same creator on Kindle – you may remember from a recent report that this is a Yuri manga set in a gym.
Yuri Anime
Yagate Kimi ni Naru will be participating in a collaboration cafe at the Animate in Akihabara in November, according to Comic Natalie. Bloom Into You is streaming on HIDIVE.
LGBTQ Comics
Via The Beat, the new Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire comic was announced at New York Comic Con. It’s scheduled to hit stores in spring 2019.
Via Deb Aoki, winner of the Harvey Award for Best Manga of the Year went to Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness. Wow! Congratulations to Nagata-sensei.
Once again, from The Beat, Zack Quaintance reports on r(ender), a new comic by Leah Williams, put out by Lion Forge Comics described as “X-Files, but lesbians and magic.”
LGBTQ Comics/Manga Studies
Via Professor CJ Suzuki, a Call for Papers for the first LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader. “250-word abstract for this Comics Reader should be sent to Professors Alison Halsall and Jonathan Warren by 1 November 2018, at ahalsall [at] yorku.ca and jwarren [at] yorku.ca for consideration. Completed articles should be 15-18 pages, double-spaced, bibliography included, due 1 March 2019.”
CFP for the next issue of Mechademia: Second Arc Queer(ing) is now available. “Guest edited by James Welker, “Queer(ing)” will focus on queer(ing) comics, animation, and games, and other related media as well as their fandoms in Asia. Submissions of 5000-7000 words are due 1 June 2019 for an expected publication date in Spring 2020.”
Not comics or manga specific, but Victoria Brownworth’s discussion of the lesbian erasure in critical research is eye-opening. Part 1 | Part 2.
Other News
The Yuri/GL Phillipines group had a booth at Cosplay Mania. Check out this video from Serena, to enjoy a walk through.
She Makes Comics is now available to stream from Netflix. This movie “traces the fascinating history of women in the comics industry. Despite popular assumptions about the comics world, women have been writing, drawing, and reading comics since the medium’s beginnings in the late 19th century.”
Due to the upcoming Olympics, Tokyo has taken steps to ban discrimination against LGBT people. Regardless of the reasons, this step forward seems like a good place to wrap up for the week.
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