Last week we shared some of our favorite “one-shot” single-volume manga from the past year—but manga that tell an entire story in a single book certainly aren’t the usual way of doing things. And that’s just fine: we love a compact story, well told, but there’s just something about following the same characters and storylines […]
Is it shallow to read a manga just for its looks? Manga is a medium with as many art styles as there are artists, and no lack of gorgeous, interesting art in every genre. But even among all this eye candy, every once in awhile you see something that makes you stop and take a […]
More than a few promising new manga series launched in the past year, but there were also plenty of returning favorites keeping us entertained. Here’s a look at 10 continuing series that kept us reading in 2016.
Nominees for the Eisner Awards, the top honors in the comics industry, were announced on April 19. This year’s nomnees in the manga category (technically, “Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia”) offer a range of different types of manga, from genre comedy to poignant literary works. As a former Eisner judge myself, I know how hard […]