College goes to manga

Posted on August 25, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

A quick note on something that would be interesting if I were in California, which I’m not: Chico State University (about 90 miles north of Sacramento) is holding a series of lectures, workshops, and art exhibits with the theme “Shojo Manga! Girl Power!” and focusing on “the recent success of female animators and the emergence of strong heroines as cultural icons.” The series will include talks by legendary director Hayao Miyazake (Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited Away) and manga experts Keiko Takemiya and Yukari Fujimoto.

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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