Japan on demand

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

German artist Dirk Schweiger has put a new spin on webcomics: He takes requests. Ask Schweiger, who lives in Tokyo, to sample an aspect of Japanese culture and he will draw a comic about it. The result is MORESUKINE, a funny and often insightful comic drawn in classic indy-comics style. Canned coffee, cubicle hotels, natto—it’s all in there. My favorite so far: Schweiger’s beautiful rendering of a visit to Mount Takao.

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.
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