Manga Artifacts: Memories
Given the speed with which DC Comics shuttered CMX Manga last year, it’s easy to forget that both DC and…
Tag: Classic
Manga Artifacts: Princess Knight
What Osamu Tezuka’s New Treasure Island (1946) was to shonen, his Princess Knight (1953-56) was to shojo. Both were long-form…
Ayako
Ayako is an odd beast. Structurally, it resembles a Russian realist novel, using a once-powerful family of landowners to embody…
Black Jack, Vols. 1-2
Black Jack practices a different kind of medicine than the earnest physicians on Grey’s Anatomy or ER, taking cases that…
Cat-Eyed Boy, Vols. 1-2
Kazuo Umezu’s writing defies easy categorization. His horror stories unfold in an almost haphazard fashion, seldom offering Western readers the…