A Few Thoughts About Stranger Things
Over the course of three seasons, Stranger Things has devolved from an engaging period piece to a Potemkin village whose neon surfaces, vintage movie posters,…
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 the Louvre, the latest volume…
The Drifting Classroom Signature Edition, Vol. 1
In a 2009 interview with Tokyo Scum Brigade, Kazuo Umezu acknowledged that his debt to Osamu Tezuka went beyond storyboarding and character designs. Tezuka “didn’t…
Short Takes: Museum and Phantom Tales of the Night
I have a confession: I am a complete chicken when it comes to horror movies. I watched Alien through my fingers and made it to the end…
Shojo & Tell: Moto Hagio Edition
To celebrate the release of Moto Hagio’s The Poe Clan, Shojo & Tell host Ashley MacDonald invited me to join her for an in-depth conversation about…