Tag: gekiga
MANGA REVIEW: Bottomless lust and dreams collide in NEJISHIKI
Nejishiki introduces a collection of enigmatic and sexually graphic short manga unraveling Yoshiharu Tsuge's rawest emotions.
MANGA NEWS: FLASH POINT by Imai Arata licensed by Glacier Bay Books
Latest from 'F' creator to be printed in English in 2024.
Barbara Brandon-Croft’s WHERE I’M COMING FROM headlines Drawn & Quarterly’s Winter 2023 solicits
Summer may only be just around the corner but here are Drawn & Quarterly's solicits for Winter 2023, with eight titles to look forward to in the first four months of next year.
Remembering the work and legacy of manga auteur Takao Saito
On Wednesday it was announced that gekiga auteur Takao Saito, creator of the longest-running ongoing manga series in the world, Golgo 13 (ゴルゴ13), had passed away on September 24 from pancreatic cancer, at the...
The secret history of alternative manga
Manga isn't all awkward schoolgirls and giant robots. There has long been a very strong alternative and literary thread of manga, and two recent articles give you some perspective on it.
I would call Ryan Holmberg's Proto-Gekiga: Matsumoto Masahiko’s Komaga a must read, but I have to confess, it is very long and involved, and I have set it aside for weekend reading. BUT the important thing is that he compares and contrasts Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who is kind of credited as the father of "gekiga" or realistic manga, with Matsumoto Masahiko, a figure who appears in Tatsumi's autobiographical A Drifting Life under another name. Masahiko's work went down a slightly different path than Tatsumi's but Holmberg shows that it was equally important:
The secret history of alternative manga
Manga isn’t all awkward schoolgirls and giant robots. There has long been a very strong alternative and literary thread of manga, and two recent articles give you some perspective on it.
I would...