Jiro Taniguchi – The Manga Critic

The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Venice

Posted on March 2, 2018

Venice — one of the last projects Jiro Taniguchi completed before his death in 2017 — is perhaps the most beautiful work he…

Posted on February 11, 2017

Word of Jiro Taniguchi’s death spread quickly this afternoon via Twitter and Facebook. It was a sobering moment for American…

Posted on January 6, 2017

One part Times of Botchan, one part Night at the Museum, Jiro Taniguchi’s Guardians of the Louvre is a stately,…

Posted on March 20, 2012

I’ve always thought that I had something in common with Warren Ellis — besides a sailor’s fondness for colorful language,…

Posted on December 31, 2011

The usual gambit for introducing a year-end list is to remark on the abundance of good titles, acknowledge the difficulty…