Wired covers manga

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Wired magazine hops onto the manga bandwagon with a ten-page, right-to-left manga about the history of our favorite medium, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Atsuhisa Okura, that should render all those Manga 101 articles obsolete. (I’m including the link, but the manga content isn’t on the web yet.) Also in this issue is an article by Daniel Pink, who lived in Japan and has written a manga entitled The Adventure of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You Will Ever Need. I mentioned this the other day, and today ICv2 has more.

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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4 Responses to Wired covers manga

  1. ryan says:
    October 19, 2007 at 11:46 am

    WHOA! this is mighty impressive! i can’t wait to go get this from the newsstand!

    I just got my contributor copy of Jason’s book from Del Rey and it’s TONS AND TONS of fun the read… I love it when insanely knowledgeable folks like him share their (mental) wealth!

  2. Deathreaper says:
    October 21, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    I was the Tampa Bay airport and they had it and right when i saw “manga conquers America” I had to buy it. Its an extremely well done article, and the manga style history is just about the best way to explain the history of manga.

  3. Glenn Kardy says:
    October 21, 2007 at 8:21 pm

    Just want to give Okura-sensei a hearty “congratulations” from his friends at Japanime! (And thanks to Brigid, too, for posting this!)

    Okura-sensei has written several original manga for our company, and he totally deserves the attention that the Wired article will certainly bring his way.

    Great job, my friend!

  4. marc says:
    October 27, 2007 at 6:50 pm

    If you enjoyed the Wired article, you might like one I wrote about the same subject — 16 years ago!
    http://www.perton.com/2007/10/26/

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