Booklist: Calling Team Comix!!!

Posted on August 23, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Okay, people. Take a look at the USA Today Booklist. We have volume 11 of Naruto debuting at #33. Volume 14 of Fruits Basket slips to #59. Sorry, no top ten this time, Tohru. And that’s it for manga.

But look at what’s number 2 on the list: Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People. When I saw that, a horrible realization dawned on me: the very first manga to crack the top ten could well be The Grosse Adventures, the Tokyopop Manga Chapters book about twin brothers with—I swear I’m not making this up—”extreme farting capabilities.”

Do we want that? No? Then your mission is clear: Get out there and start pimpin’ your favorite titles now! If the manga lifestyle is going to go mainstream, I’d rather it be known for Furuba than flatulence.

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 Booklist: Calling Team Comix!!!

  1. Ed says:
    August 24, 2006 at 12:10 am

    Oh, the MangaCast’s crusade, and yes it has moved onto religious proportions, to get WORST in the USA Today lists and back on shelves (in that order) is always in fifth gear.

    Yanki’s will go mainstream!

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