Brigid Alverson
Freelance Writer at Freelance
She/her. Writer about comics at SLJ, PW, & ICv2; editor of Good Comics for Kids; part of Smash Pages team. Ally. Support trans youth (and adults)!
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1 week ago |
tcj.com | Brigid Alverson
It's been another dramatic week in the ongoing saga of the Diamond bankruptcy, with the original purchaser, Alliance Entertainment, dropping its offer and suing Diamond alleging, among other things, fraud and breach of contract, and Diamond making a quick pivot to sell to the backup bidders. The bottom line: Diamond will be sold to two bidders, the Canadian distributor Universal Distribution and Ad Populum, the parent company of collectible maker NECA and its subsidiary, WizKids.
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2 weeks ago |
slj.com | Brigid Alverson |Kathy Ishizuka |Amy Lilien-Harper |Sam Bloom
History Comics: Ellis Island: Immigration and the American Dream (Feggo) ©2025 by Tait Howard. Immigration is a lived experience for millions of Americans and their family members.
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3 weeks ago |
slj.com | Brigid Alverson |Beth McIntyre
This seems like ancient history now, but one of the things that cemented the popularity of manga was format. Publishers who first brought Japanese comics to the American market did a lot of experimenting. Some colorized them and segmented them into monthly comics, while others kept them black-and-white but flipped the comics so they read left-to-right and published them as expensive graphic novels, often with a larger trim size than what we are accustomed to now.
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3 weeks ago |
tcj.com | Brigid Alverson
Diamond agreed to sell to the highest bidder at its bankruptcy auction last month - then pulled an about-face and tried to go with a different one. Now that the dust has settled, and it looks like Alliance Entertainment will be the purchaser, here's a look at what just happened and what we can expect going forward.
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1 month ago |
publishersweekly.com | Brigid Alverson
Graphic novelist Matt Kindt was watching a whodunit with his mother, Margie, when Margie came up with a clever solution to the murder. “I think that’s too smart for what this show is trying to do,” Matt said, but he added: “If they don’t use that idea, let’s take that twist and make our own book out of it.”Matt was right—the show had a different solution—and Margie held him to his word.
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