This is is a little off topic for Manga Recon, so much so that I don’t have a category for it. I am also posting off our regular schedule – there are big changes afoot here, but I can’t say what yet.
My fiancé and fellow Ninja Consultant Noah is getting manga for all of his coworkers for Christmas. So far, he’s giving Nausicaa, Gon, Suppli, Whistle, Azumanga Daioh and the untranslated Golden Rough (it’s about golf) to age and demographic appropriate coworkers and their kids.
Noah has one coworker whose experience with comics is limited to Archie. Unfortunately, the only experience I have with Archie is Bazooka Joe comic strips on bubblegum wrappers, which doesn’t tell me much about why people like Archie comics (bad puns?). All I remember from the Archie cartoons is the theme song.
My question to you, dear readers and the greater manga blogosphere, is this: What manga or American graphic novels do you recommend for Archie readers? (This particular reader is a female in her 40’s.)
I once learned at an ICv2 conference that Archie is America’s best selling comic, thanks to it’s availability in grocery store checkout aisles. Perhaps Milton Griepp can correct me if I’m wrong, but only Shonen Jump and Naruto come close to reaching Archie’s sales numbers, thanks to their availability in Walmart.
On a sidenote: When I was a high school girl in the 1990s, I began reading Sandman comics. I asked for a bunch of Sandman graphic novels for Christmas one year, which my mom dutifully purchased. She stuck a bunch of Betty and Veronica comics inside each volume as a joke. I never read them.
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