Okay, I gotta go get ready to do this convention thing, but here are a few more items:

Many of you have probably already heard that Madeleine Rosca’s OEL manga Hollow Fields, published by Seven Seas, was one of the main runners-up/award winners at Japan’s first International Manga Awards, and the only westerner to make it that far.

Seven Seas is definitely trying to make good use of the award; they’re actually sending Hollow Fields back for a re-print, according to this press release. I have to say that it winning an award makes me more intersted in the series than the description in the release does:

Hollow Fields is a three-volume manga series for all ages that tells the story of little Lucy Snow, who, in a macabre twist of fate, finds herself enrolled at Miss Weaver’s Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered—also known as Hollow Fields. Located on the outskirts of Nullsville and run by the insidious Engineers, the grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising the next generation of mad scientists and evil geniuses.

Worth noting that in spite of being OEL, it’s read right to left.