Buddha on the Cheap

Posted on July 18, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Recently, I commented on Michael Deeley’s favorable review of Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha v1: Kapilavastu but commented that at $24.95 I’d be more likely to borrow than buy the book.
Now Dave Carter of Yet Another Comics Blog has alerted me that Vertical Inc. has announced inexpensive paperback editions of the first two volumes of the series. Their website says they won’t be out until 2006; fortunately, I’ve got plenty to read between now and then…

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.
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