He put the Z in PapercutZ

Posted on August 29, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

With their manga-style adaptation of Zorro, Papercutz continues its campaign to convert every book and movie from my childhood into glossy color comics. I’m looking forward to future announcements of manga starring Trixie Belden, Anne of Green Gables, and Encyclopedia Brown (“Like Hajime Kindaichi… only smart”).
The Zorro comics are already out, and the first graphic novel is slated for this month. It looks good, but it doesn’t look much like manga to me. Just looks like a comic. Nothin’ wrong with that.
On the other hand, if they weren’t marketing it as manga, I wouldn’t be able to blog about it.

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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3 Responses to He put the Z in PapercutZ

  1. tangognat says:
    August 29, 2005 at 10:10 pm

    Actually Anne of Green Gables is so popular in Japan, it was an anime series in the late 1970s, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there already was a Japanese manga version.

  2. Jason Brice says:
    August 31, 2005 at 12:46 am

    Encyclopedia Brown! I loved those books when I was a kid… I was an uber-geek even back then!

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