The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Benkei in New York
I’ve always thought that I had something in common with Warren Ellis — besides a sailor’s fondness for colorful language,…
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A Bride’s Story, Vols. 2-3
Around the age of ten, I had a brief but intense love affair with historical fiction. It began with Little…
Is This A Zombie?, Vol. 1
Here’s a tip for aspiring manga artists: if you’re going to spoof a genre, your jokes should be poking fun…
Recorder and Randsell
Most of the 4-koma manga I’ve read have been stamped from the same mold. There’s a quartet of teenage girls,…
Manga Artifacts: Osamu Tezuka’s Lost World
Reading Osamu Tezuka’s Lost World (1948) reminded me a formative graduate school experience. I was researching George Gershwin’s Porgy and…