The manga edition of Wired is up on the web, including the ten-page manga, written by Jason Thompson and illustrated by Atsuhisa Okura, and Daniel Pink’s look at the “Manga Industrial Complex.” I wrote a short review of the manga, and Wired’s unfortunate web presentation, at Digital Strips. At Comicsnob, Matt Blind points out some not-so-obvious extras, and ICv2 has their own review.
Reviews: About Heroes posts some concise reviews of recent volumes; I really like this site because they tackle a huge range of manga with the same enthusiasm as other genres. Danielle Van Gorder checks out Waru for Anime on DVD. Dave Ferraro enjoys Alien Nine: Emulators at Comics-and-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.
