Manga Artifacts: The Legend of Mother Sarah
Most American manga fans know Katsuhiro Otomo as the creative force behind AKIRA and Domu: A Child’s Dream, but Otomo’s catalog also includes…
Manga
Gandhi: A Manga Biography
British historian Phillip Guedalla famously described biography as “a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the…
Bloody Monday, Vol. 1
To judge from all the shonen manga I’ve read, the fate of the world rests in teenage boys’ hands: not…
Cage of Eden, Vol. 1
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a trans-Pacific flight encounters turbulence, and before any of the passengers can…
Velveteen & Mandala
Jiro Matsumoto’s Velveteen & Mandala, a phantasmagoria of zombie-slaying, nudity, and poop, seems calibrated to shock readers into nervous laughter,…