Yomi preview

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

This is a big year for manga: as sales continue to increase, the manga creep brings in older and younger readers, and Merriam-Webster sees fit to include the word “manga” in the dictionary, we are also seeing manga starting to separate itself a bit from the comics mainstream. After years of manga being a part of smaller cons, MangaNEXT will be the first-ever convention just for manga. And while the Harvey and Eisner awards regularly ignore manga, except for a handful of titles, we now have our own manga awards, the Yomis.

This is due entirely to the hard work of MangaCast’s Ed Chavez, who solicited nominations from his readers, recruited judges (including me), tallied the results, and got the physical awards made up. Ed will be handing them out at SDCC on Friday, and I can’t wait to hear the results.

In the meantime, Jack Tse has done a pre-Yomi podcast to get us in the mood.

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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One Response to Yomi preview

  1. Jack says:
    July 19, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    I didn’t know he went as far as to make plaques for the award winners! This is great, I hope next year it gets even bigger!

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