Biography – The Manga Critic

Yakuza Moon: The True Story of a Gangster’s Daughter

Posted on January 11, 2012

In the popular imagination, the yakuza are modern-day samurai, observing a rigid code of honor, decorating their bodies with elaborate…

Posted on October 6, 2011

British historian Phillip Guedalla famously described biography as “a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the…

Posted on October 7, 2010

Reading The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, I was irresistibly reminded of a quip attributed to Thomas Carlyle:…

Posted on September 6, 2010

In the introduction to The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, author Helen McCarthy argues that Tezuka’s work merits…