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Vernieda Vergara

Vernieda Vergara is a freelance writer who loves anime, manga, and all things creepy. Her work has appeared on Den of Geek, Women Write About Comics, The Comics MNT, and other venues scattered across the internet. She lives in the Washington DC suburbs where she takes care of far too many plants and drinks even more tea. Twitter: incitata

6 Manga about People Who Create Manga

Let’s get meta for a moment. A question I get asked with regular frequency is about manga creation. How is ...

The ABCs of Anime

We’ve talked about basic manga terms and we’ve talked about how manga relates to anime. Now that we have that ...

An Introduction to Anime and Its Relationship to Manga

As a longtime fan of manga and anime, I hear all sorts of questions about both media formats. When it ...

3 Cat Comics for Fans of Neko Atsume

This post was originally published at Panels, our sister site about all things comics! Check out more from them here. ...

3 Cat Manga Titles for Fans of Neko Atsume

Chances are that if you hang out on Twitter or Tumblr, you’ve seen screencaps of a particular cell phone game ...

Licensing Limbo: The Fear of Every Manga Fan

I know we have lots of new manga readers here on Panels, but the North American industry has been around ...

What’s a Light Novel and Where Should I Begin?

If you hang out in manga and anime circles for long enough, chances are you’ll eventually encounter a reference to ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Manga Terminology

We here at Panels are taking some much needed time off; in the meantime, we’re revisiting some favorite old posts ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Buying Digital Manga

A common refrain I hear from new manga adopters is that they don’t know where to start. For the most ...

The Manga Industry’s Scanlation Problem

As a longtime manga fan, I’m thrilled to see the industry rebounding the past couple years. You see, I remember ...