Brigid Alverson has been reading comics for as long as she can remember, and she has been writing about them since 2005. She has an MFA in printmaking and has worked as a book editor and a newspaper reporter; now she is assistant to the mayor of a small city by the day and pursues comics journalism in her off hours. She writes about comics and graphic novels at MangaBlog, Publishers Weekly, Comic Book Resources, MTV Geek, and Good E-Reader.com and is a daily blogger at Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters in college, which is why she writes so much.
She was a judge for the 2012 Eisner Awards.
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Interviews with Brigid—
- Tom Spurgeon's interview with Brigid
- Girls Plus Comics interview with Brigid
- Brigid Alverson Knows Her Manga (Boston Globe)
- Brigid Alverson on Good Comics for Kids (Talking with Tim)
A Brigid Alverson Sampler
News—
- Manga 2013: A Smaller, More Sustainable Market (Publishers Weekly)
- Boston Comic Con: The Show Must Go On (CBR)
- Library director refuses to restrict access to yaoi manga (Robot 6)
- Zachi Telesha, comics writer, passes away at age 12 (Robot 6)
- Shiftylook Uses Free Comics and Games to Build an Audience (Publishers Weekly)
- Retailers Aid in Comics Piracy Crackdown (CBR)
Interviews—
- Jimmy Gownley Wraps Up 'Amelia'; Launches New Projects
- Mark Waid reflects on the first eight months of Thrillbent (Robot 6)
- Jeff Smith Responds to Bone School Library Challenge (Publishers Weekly)
- Emma Beeby Brings a "Suicide Cult" to "Judge Dredd Megazine" (CBR)
- Victor Gorelick and Craig Yoe on the art of Archie Comics (Robot 6)
- Inside First Second with Calista Brill and Colleen AF Venable (Robot 6)
- Robot 6 Q&A: James Kochalka on the end of American Elf (Robot 6)
- Exclusive: Yoshitaka Amano Reflects on "Final Fantasy," "Hero," and More (CBR)
- Manga Interview: Moyoco Anno (MTV Geek)
- Makoto Shinkai: Making Anime for One Person at a Time (MTV Geek)
- Darwyn Cooke Discusses His Creator-Owned Digital Comic (CBR)
- Matt Thorn Returns to Translation (Publishers Weekly)
- The Stu Levy Interview (MangaBlog)
- Iverse CEO Michael Murphey on the other digital comics (Robot 6)
- ComiXology's David Steinberger pulls back the digital curtain (Robot 6)
- Rich Tommasso on re-coloring the Carl Barks comics (Robot 6)
- Stuart Hample: Eyewitness to History (Robot 6)
Commentary—
- Best Job Ever: My Six Months as an Eisner Judge (Publishers Weekly)
- The Perils of Self-Publishing (Robot 6)
- Unboxing: A Look at a Month's Worth of Archie Comics (Robot 6)
- How not to draw manga: Some free advice (Robot 6)
- The comics that changed the world (Robot 6)
- Dear publishers: A rant about websites (Robot 6)
- Unbound: Why is this dog exploding?
Reviews—