| | Anime News Network - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Our cover interview spotlights pioneering shoujo cartoonist Moto Hagio, often called “the Osamu Tezuka of women’s manga,” who is renowned both for her psychologically challenging stories and as the originator of the “shonen-ai” (boy love) subgenre. |
| | Hagio was one of the ringleaders of the Magnificent Forty-Niners, a loose confederation of female manga creators who challenged the then-male- dominated shoujo industry in the early 1970s and left it utterly transformed. |
| | Scholar and translator Matt Thorn sits down for a long and fascinating conversation with Hagio (her first full-length interview ever), and also contributes an essay explaining who the Forty-Niners were and why their influence is still felt today. |
| www.animenewsnetwork.com /pressrelease.php?id=1101 (298 words) |
