Manga Artifacts: Pineapple Army
About two years ago, I reached a tipping point in my manga consumption: I’d read enough just enough stories about…
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.
Solanin
The characters in Solanin are suffering from what I call a “pre-life crisis”—that moment in your twenties when you realize…
Chi’s Sweet Home, Vol. 1
Come for the cat, stay for the cartooning — that’s how I’d summarize the appeal of Chi’s Sweet Home, a…
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Vols. 1-3
The Count of Monte Cristo, arguably Alexander Dumas’ best novel, is a big, sprawling beast, stuffed to the gills with…
My 10 Favorite CMX Titles
CMX may not have had the biggest titles or the biggest sales, but its catalog had a pleasing eclecticism: who…