The Best Manga You’re Not Reading: Benkei in New York
I’ve always thought that I had something in common with Warren Ellis — besides a sailor’s fondness for colorful language, that is — and reading…
A Bride’s Story, Vols. 2-3
Around the age of ten, I had a brief but intense love affair with historical fiction. It began with Little House in the Big Woods…
Is This A Zombie?, Vol. 1
Here’s a tip for aspiring manga artists: if you’re going to spoof a genre, your jokes should be poking fun at said genre’s conventions, not…
Recorder and Randsell
Most of the 4-koma manga I’ve read have been stamped from the same mold. There’s a quartet of teenage girls, each of whom has one…
Manga Artifacts: Osamu Tezuka’s Lost World
Reading Osamu Tezuka’s Lost World (1948) reminded me a formative graduate school experience. I was researching George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (1935), when I stumbled…