‘Tis the season

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Best link of the day: Mely visits the Shoujo Manga: Girl Power! exhibit at the Pratt Institute and takes detailed notes with her usual critical eye.

Naruto drops to number 86 on the USA Today booklist, but the boy is showing staying power—this is his fifth week on the list.

Anime Expo is almost upon us, and the exhibit hall is sold out. Manga publishers in attendance will include ADV, Broccoli Books, CMX, Digital Manga, Go! Comi, TokyoPop, and Viz. Here’s the Viz PR on the expo, which includes the enticing words “advance release manga.” Oh, and in case you haven’t heard, CLAMP is gonna be there. Even the LA Times realizes it’s all about the manga. As always, Pata has the best rundown.

Not going? Maybe this will make you feel better. And you can still check the video feeds from home at AX Backstage.

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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