A new gig

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Because I don’t have enough to do as it is (hah!), I’m now writing a monthly column on web manga at Comixpedia, which is a beautifully produced site about all things webcomic. My first one will be old news to most MangaBlog readers, as it’s a field guide to manga on the web, but drop by and check it out anyway.

And since I’m not totally omniscient, I welcome your suggestions on web manga that I could cover for Comixpedia and the other webcomics site I blog for, Digital Strips.

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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3 Responses to A new gig

  1. ed says:
    February 7, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Hmmm, well if you are looking at manga you might want to check out Comic Genzo. Its a monthly web manga magazine from Gentosha. 210yen an issue which is very affordable. However it looks like the mag is on hiatus as they haven’t updated since November 06.

  2. Brigid says:
    February 7, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Ed, I looked at that and was put off by the fact that they want you to download an executable file in order to read the comics. That’s too scary for me!

  3. ed says:
    February 8, 2007 at 2:49 am

    Good point. I was hesitent at first but for some reason I ended up trusting Gentosha.

    There are other free manga magazines and sites out there but if you are looking at Japanese titles then you will only find them raw and untranslated.

    I am not a fan of scanlations so I don’t know where to even start with those. Nor do I want to support them. But if you’d like a couple of raw recommendations, I can give you some. You know how to get a hold of me ^_^

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