Can there be such a thing as too much good manga? In this week’s Flipped column, David Welsh looks ahead to some of CMX’s new releases and begins to contemplate adding a library wing.
In Honolulu, manga fan Robyn Yanagihara gives the whole problem a poetic cast:
With stories of modern life to mystic lore,
Entertainment isn’t hard to find anymore;
There’s anime and manga on every subject,
But alas! College budget!
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.
