The borderlands

Posted on September 3, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Three nice articles from the margins of the manga world:
On this side of the border, comics artist Pam Bliss decides to start reading shoujo manga and looks at it through an artist’s eye on Sequential Tart. Her view of manga through the eye of a non-manga artist is good reading, especially for newbies.
Right on the border between manga and … umm.. something that’s not manga, Heidi Benson of the San Francisco Chronicle interviews Sho Murase, the artist who is bringing Nancy Drew back to life for Papercutz.
And on the other side of customs, millarworld.the.magazine has an excellent feature on comics for all ages that includes interviews and reviews as well as links to even more. The only manga included is Crayon Shin Chan, which is out of print, but some of the other comics look good.

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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