Sequential Tart has a nice roundup of what shoujo manga comics professionals are reading. The longest quote is from ElfQuest creator Wendy Pini, who opines that
Extroverted girls who fantasize about dating the captain of the football team are probably less likely to be attracted to the aesthetics of shojo manga than are the more introverted, thoughtful types who are enticed, rather than put off, by gender-bender fantasies.
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.
