Thanks to David at Love Manga for pointing out the new VIZ website. It is a vast improvement over the previous site in one respect: It is searchable. However, the designers have retained one feature that drives me crazy—instead of providing an alphabetical list of manga titles, they persist in classifying them, on the off chance that I’ll know that Ultra Maniac falls under “Shojo Beat” and not “Shoujo,” or that I’ll understand the difference between “SHONEN JUMP” and “SHONEN JUMP ADVANCED.” (CAPS theirs. Hey, guys, stop shouting.) All this just makes it harder to find a book, which means it’s a lot of work for nothing.
But at least I don’t have to exit the site and go to Google to find a title any more.
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.
