Kids in the U.S. don’t read, eh? Tell it to the kids in Brooklyn Park, Maryland, who are getting together for some cosplay and manga-drawing fun.
Here’s my favorite part: a local comic store owner’s quick take on manga:
“Oh, my goodness! He turned into a fuzzy animal – how will he get a date to the prom?” said Martinez, describing a typical plot line.
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.
