Pre-con anticipation

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

I hosted a lively roundtable at Robot 6 this week, in which the Good Comics for Kids crew (including librarians, moms, and an actual teenager) discussed why genres that cater to girls (Twilight, shoujo manga) don’t get much respect—and how that can change. Over at Manga Widget, Alex Hoffman gets it: He doesn’t like Twilight (fair enough) but he thinks it’s OK that other people do. If you haven’t read it (and even if you have) check out this handy and very funny webcomic synopsis.

Deb Aoki lists 20 things that manga fans must see at San Diego Comic-Con. David Welsh makes his selections in this week’s Flipped column.

Erin Finnegan summarizes the Otakon Wins and Fails.

Reviews: The Manga Recon team posts another set of Manga Minis this morning for your reading pleasure. At The Eastern Standard, David Goodwin looks at an untranslated Kazuo Umezu manga, Fourteen.
Laura on The Gentlemen’s Alliance Cross (Heart of Manga)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 11 of High School Debut (There it is, Plain as Daylight)
Shojo Flash on vol. 1 of The Lapis Lazuli Crown (Shojo Flash)
Lorena Nava Ruggero on vol. 2 of Monster (i heart manga)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 5 of Sand Chronicles (Comics Worth Reading)

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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