The Best and Worst Manga of 2023
This weekend’s Nor’easter provided me a swell opportunity to finish my long-gestating Best and Worst Manga list for 2023. One…
Tag: Cats
A Man & His Cat, Vol. 1
As someone who’s suffered a lifetime of embarrassment over my tendency to cry at movies and books about animals—even ones…
Cats of the Louvre
Weird. Uncanny. Melancholy. Beautiful. Those were just a few of the adjectives I jotted down while reading Taiyo Matsumoto’s Cats of…
Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
On the surface, Junji Ito’s Cat Diary is a gag manga. J-Kun–a lightly fictionalized version of the author–reluctantly agrees to…
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…