The MTV News article below has a sentence that should send chills up every parent’s spine:
We’re hoping that the readers here will begin to see manga as a medium where it’s very similar to soap operas or whatever they see on TV, except it’s in print,” said Yumi Hoashi, whose parents forbade her to read manga but who is now the editor in chief of Viz’s mighty Shonen Jump manga anthology,
(Emphasis is mine.) Yeah, that worked well. After reading that quote, I immediately banned Shakespeare, broccoli, and all forms of advanced mathematics from my household. I’ll let you know how that works 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.
