What is manga?

Posted on September 3, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Are manga comics at all? I find the question profoundly boring, but they’re tearing up the message board at Comicon over this post by Pat O’Neill. There’s still time to join in the conversation.
O’Neill’s initial essay is a reaction to Dirk Deppey’s essay on manga in The Comics Journal, which is worth reading even if you don’t have a dog in this race.

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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