Manga in the news

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Last week, Time magazine discovered manga, with a business story and an interview with Natsuki Takaya. Now what? In his Flipped column, David Welsh offers some story ideas for journalists who want to get a bit of manga in their news.

Over at Love Manga, David Taylor gives the latest Bookscan top 10 along with a bit of commentary. My favorite:

Naruto should be taken out back and shot for being so successful.

Heh! David performs the essential public service of giving the top ten in numerical order, something that ICv2 seems duty-bound never to do.

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin looks at School Rumble, one of my favorite new series, with comments from the manga-ka from Kawaii-Kon.

The Baltimore Sun goes to Otakon and notices all the cosplay.

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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