Kodansha winner will be from North America

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Kodansha will announce the winners of their International Manga Competition next month, but here’s a scoop: the grand prize winner is a North American artist. No word yet on who, but we can start guessing. The winning manga will be featured in the magazine Morning, which has a circulation of 500,000, and may be developed into a full-length manga, which could be interesting—an American manga published in Japan. (As always, the first question is, will it be flipped?) The deadline for the next contest is in December, so sharpen your pencils and get to work!

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 Kodansha winner will be from North America

  1. Lenners says:
    July 19, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    Hope they’re Canadian! XD

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