Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
At some point in your travels through high school English, a teacher probably made you read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,”…
Author: Katherine Dacey
Kate Dacey has been writing about comics since 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she was the Senior Manga Editor at PopCultureShock, a site covering all aspects of the entertainment industry from comics to video games. In 2009, she launched The Manga Critic, where she reviewed Japanese comics and novels until 2012. Kate’s resume also includes serving as a panelist at ALA, New York Comic-Con, and Wondercon; penning reviews for the School Library Journal’s Good Comics for Kids blog; and writing the introductory chapter of CBDLF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices, which Dark Horse published in 2013. Kate is a musicologist based in the Greater Boston area.
The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
Reading The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, I was irresistibly reminded of a quip attributed to Thomas Carlyle:…
Cat-Eyed Boy, Vols. 1-2
Kazuo Umezu’s writing defies easy categorization. His horror stories unfold in an almost haphazard fashion, seldom offering Western readers the…
Demon Sacred, Vols. 1-2
Demon Sacred is shojo manga’s answer to the everything bagel, substituting hot scientists, dragons, pop idols, twins, secret government research…
Manga Artifacts: Magical Mates
It’s hard to remember a time when the only translated manga featured explosions, monsters, and naked women, but for most…