At the new Tokyopop website, webmaster Jim Devico responds to the critics of the new site design and invites constructive suggestions.
He has already linked to this post at Precocious Curmudgeon, in which David Welsh spells out exactly what he does and doesn’t like in a website. I’m with David. At Love Manga, David Taylor gives his take. And Lyle has some thoughts on the different strategies Tokyopop and Viz have chosen to grow their market.
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.
I’m probably 99.9% wrong, but to me this is one of the first times that someone within the anime/manga industry has non-directly responded to bloggers/online communities and is ASKING for criticism.