Tokyopop relaunches site

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Psst! Go check out the Tokyopop site! It’s been redesigned and considerably enlarged, with blogs (blogs!) and a new manga column by Stephanie Folse (a.k.a. Telophase), a people column by Chris Arrant, an interview with Beck manga-ka Harold Sakuishi, and a bunch of stuff I’ll probably never read (anime, games) but that other people will probably enjoy. Oh, and it looks like they’re posting fanart and fanfic as well. It’s almost more like a magazine than a publisher site, especially as that single page with every manga on it has disappeared, and clicking on “manga” brings up the featured manga, not all of ’em. Fortunately, there’s a search engine for that unglamorous stuff.

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 Tokyopop relaunches site

  1. Jack says:
    July 21, 2006 at 7:33 am

    I agree with what they are doing — new media marketing encompasses social features such as blogs and podcasts and causes IMO a connection with the customer and product. Out of the current “Big 3” they are in best position to do this… so go for it!

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