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Posted on September 14, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

Now that’s self-referential: On Manga Life, news of How To Break Into Comics, a comic book about how to make comic books. It’s about a kid who gets a high school assignment on… breaking into comics. I can only wonder whether she chooses to write and illustrate a comic book about a kid who gets a high school assignment on breaking into comics, who chooses to …. Aaargh!
One thing I find appealing is that the would-be artist is a girl, and that fact seems to be unworthy of comment. I remember when Trina Robbins started drawing Wonder Woman and got lots of articles written about her because she was a female comic artist. Now it’s no big deal, and I think the profusion of female manga artists has a lot to do with that. When I pick up a manga, I just assume the artist is a woman unless there is strong evidence to the contrary.

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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