Perhaps you’re one of the millions of people who don’t read CosmoGirl!, but you’re curious about the manga feature that Dramacon artist Svetlana Chmakova draws for it each month. Well, here it is. The page is very pink, and there are prom ads on the sidebar, but hey, it’s free. (Tokyopop’s Manga Online pointed me there.)
If that leaves you wanting more, check out Chmakova’s web page, which is very minimalist but has links to her web comics and her livejournal.
By sheer coincidence, I finally got around to reading Dramacon today, and I liked it a lot. Good art, very believable characters, and a wicked sense of humor. So now I have something to keep me occupied until the next volume comes out.
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.
