The Jackson County Floridan has an interview with Michael Shelfer, whose work is featured in Volume 5 of Tokyopop’s Rising Stars of Manga series. It took about five years of serious work for Shelfer, who is 24, to get noticed.
Best quote:
“I drew a lot of stuff blowing up, nothing too deep, but I hope it’s entertaining. The characters have traditional weapons, like swords, but also have nuclear devices.”
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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