I looked at this week’s new manga at MTV Geek—it’s sort of a mixed bag, but there are some interesting titles in the mix.
Daniella Orihuela-Gruber presents her shoujo manga gift guide for this holiday season at All About Manga.
Johanna Draper Carlson posts her picks for the best manga of 2011—plus a few noble failures—at Comics Worth Reading.
Reviews
Snow Wildsmith on vol. 1 of Bloody Monday (Good Comics for Kids)
Faith McAdams on vol. 2 of Monster Hunter Orage (Animanga Nation)
Johanna Draper Carlson on vol. 2 of Wandering Son (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.
