Manga Wins Big at ALA’s Great Graphic Novels
The American Library Association has released its list of Great Graphic Novels for 2008, and ADV, TOKYOPOP, Del Rey, Go! Comi, CMX, VIZ, Dark Horse, Vertical, and Digital Manga Publishing all took home prizes this year.
For Del Rey it was Pumpkin Scissors 1, Alive 1 and 2, and Mushishi 1 and 2 (natch).
TOKYOPOP got honors for King of Thorn 1 and 2, VIZ’s Love*Com 1 and Kekkaishi 7 and 8 are mentioned, and ADV’s Yotsuba& volume 4.
CMX wins for Emma, of course, volumes 1-5. Dark Horse took home one for the well-received shoujo manga Translucent, and Vertical’s prize is for To Terra 1-3. Digital Manga Publishing got awards for Flower of Life, by Fumi Yoshinaga (who is an amazing mangaka, best known for her BL– unfortunately for her non-BL titles like Flower or Antique Bakery, which are phenomenal).
I think Go! Comi wins for the actual number of books mentioned: Train+Train 1-3 and After School Nightmare 1-5, a total of 8 books (versus Del Rey and CMX who got 5 each).
And finally, the well-regarded manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fuyimo Kouno also made the list.
Also of note: Mark Crilley’s extremely manga-inspired graphic novel series Miki made the list for three volumes, and the first volume of SoHee Park’s manhwa Goong gives some last-second acclaim to the defunct ICE Kunion.
Original source: ALA
Secondary source: Blog@Newsarama
“For Teens”
So you’re still reading puerile works written for children.
Hmmm I am 46 and have read some of those, Yotsuba& and Translucent to be exact. I think it is because there is more drama and less page after page of fighting.
It is ok to read something “for teens”, try it, go on! :)
Puerile: youthful, juvenile, silly. Damn strait and I love every syllable of it, particularly Yotsuba&!. If you have children it scores a bullseye in the relevance department, for them and you. Kiyohiko Azuma has a way of taking difficult behavioral and cultural concepts and making them easy for children to understand. I know a lot of adults that could use a “brush-up” on this.
…of course they could do it with complete anonymity.
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Goong is amazing though. I went out and bought the k-drama based off it due to wanting MORE. :P
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