Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Vol. 1
Since one in four Americans suffer from insomnia, it seems like there’s a natural market for Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, a manga about a character…
Manga Critic
Shibuya Goldfish, Vol. 1
Shibuya Goldfish falls somewhere along the horror continuum between Sharknado 3 and Jaws: it’s too competently executed to be a guilty pleasure but too predictable to be genuinely scary….
Manhwa 100
As a reviewer, I’ve found Manga: The Complete Guide (Del Rey), Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga (Stonebridge Press), and Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics (Laurence King Publishing) indispensable references,…
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking, Vol. 1
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: The Power of Negative Thinking may not be as relentlessly intertextual as Ulysses, but this Japanese import is nearly as rich in puns, social commentary,…
The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read
In the early 1950s, horror comics were big business. Out of the eighty million floppies sold each month, nearly one in three featured a vampire,…