I don’t have any kittens, or orchids, or funny old comic book covers to scan in for an easy post, but I do have some pretty cool stamps that came on a letter from a friend in France a few weeks ago. There is something very French about these cartoons. The left-hand one translates to “The reverse of a self-stick stamp is an excellent flytrap.” The right-hand one is a pun that doesn’t really translate very well.
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.
It’s a famous french humor comics character, Le Chat (The Cat).
European comics are quite cool, BTW, pity they aren’t as published as
manga on the US.