Hump Day Links, 2/3/10

David Brothers kicks off Black History Month at 4th Letter with a review-essay of Judgment Day, a controversial 1953 comic that earned the ire of the Comics Code Authority… over at Ain’t It Cool News, Scott Green posts meaty reviews of Ultimo, Deadman Wonderland, and Black Jack… fellow Good Comics for Kids blogger Snow Wildsmith joins the chorus of folks praising Natsume’s Book of Friends… Erica Friedman posts an entertaining guest review of Ultimo at About Manga… Manga Recon editor Michelle Smith looks at Akira Toriyama’s Sandland, a done-in-one manga for the under-twelve set… and Jason Thompson trains a critical eye on MPD-Psycho at Suvudu.com.

Elsewhere on the web, David Welsh is giving away a copy of Fumi Yoshinaga’s All My Darling Daughters at The Manga Curmudgeon… in case you haven’t been on Twitter today, Yen Press just unveiled several new licenses including Fumi Yoshinaga’s Not Love But Delicious Foods and Emile Bravo’s Goldilocks and the Seven Squat Bears… and on February 6th, the Boston chapter of the Graphic Arts Guild is sponsoring a seminar on writing and publishing comics. Attendees can also sign up for a 15-minute portfolio review when they register for the workshop.