Tag: Manga

Picture it. 2008. I was a bored twenty-something who hadn't touched a console game in years. Through random internet searching, as these bored young...

The Japan News announced this morning that the long running manga series One Piece is the Guinness World Record winner for having “the most...

by Zachary Clemente 24 Hours of International Comics continue and, for me, it's been leading up to this: A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori. There's nothing I...

The Beat takes a look at Japan with the manga Solanin during their 24 Hours of International Comics.

Last week Titan Comics announced it had hired Lizzie Kaye, formerly of SelfMadeHero, to the position of editor for their European graphic novel line. We talked with Kaye within a week of her jumping on-board the Titan Comics team about her new gig and Titan's expansion into the bande dessinée market.

A seaside town is haunted by a terrible, terrible stench—and soon much more in Junji Ito's classic horror manga GYO. Originally published in Japan...

Manga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi has passed away at age 79, according to a letter received by Paul Gravett. Tatsumi had been battling cancer for several years. Tatsumi is best known as the pioneer of the "gekiga" style of manga (a term be invented), true to life stories of ordinary people. He own work featured haunting adult themes of alienation, dread and obsession. His autobiography A Drifting Life, depicting his struggles as an artist, won the Eisner award for Best Reality Based Work in 2010. He also won the World Outlook Award at Angoulême and the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize.

There's no question but that in American culture the predominant view is one that is rich, white, male, straight and Christian. And while "The male gaze" is pretty well known, we're getting to learn about the "white gaze" as well. Have you ever wondered what it looks like? Now we know. Except it’s from peace loving New Zealand AND America.

A week's worth of reading: § Has Manga Become a Niche Category? Johanna Draper Carlson examines some opinions on this, and quotes comments by Vertical's...

If you have room on your shelf for ONE MORE omnibus series, make a little room for Dark Horse's just announced omnibus series for...

Diamond released a bunch of year end charts yesterday including the top 1000 comics and GNs. I may load those up at some point but...

Junji Ito! Junji Ito! Junji Ito! Japanese horror master Ito has been avoiding the genre of his greatest triumphs—Uzimaki, Tomie, Gyo— for eight years, but...