Josie and the Pussycats are going manga, following in the footsteps of their cousin, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Can Archie and the Riverdale gang be far behind?
Actually, the art in the preview pages doesn’t look particularly Japanese. It looks more British to me, like my old Diana comics from the 1970s.
With Papercutz releasing manga versions of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, it seems like my entire childhood bookshelf is going to be reappearing in manga form. Trixie Belden, call your office!
About Brigid Alverson
Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started
MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for
School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly Comics Week,
Comic Book Resources, the
Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and
Robot 6. She also edits the
Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
