The Otaku has an interview with Peter Goodman, editor-in-chief of Stone Bridge Press, publisher of books on Japanese culture. Stone Bridge doesn’t publish manga, but their catalog includes plenty of interest to the aspiring otaku, including Japanese the Manga Way, The Anime Companion, and Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo Tokyo.
Over at Flipped, David Welsh surveys the blossoming manga market.
ComiPress has a summary of how anime and manga magazines fared in 2005.
Not manga, but this made me laugh: 20 Toy Librarians at Beaucoup Kevin.
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.
