Ed has posted the final MangaCast award nominations. Now the deliberations begin. I’m one of the judges, so I’ll be taking time to read and reread as much as possible. Here, from Ed, are the others:
Jarred Pine (MangaCast/Anime on DVD)
David Taylor (Love Manga)
Erin Finnegan (Ninja Consultant//Manga Recon)
Adam Arnold (Seven Seas – Senior Editor/Writer – Aoi House)
Tony Salvaggio (Comic Book Resources – Staff Writer)
Isaac Alexander (Manga Enthusiast/Convention Organizer)
Zoe A. (manga reader)
Brian C (manga reader/letterer for Broccoli Books)
The awards, named the Yomis, will be handed out in July at the San Diego Comic Con.
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.
