December brings shorter days, endless Christmas songs, and a strong urge to compile best-of-the-year lists. This was a good year for manga, with strong showings by blockbuster ongoing series and the launch of some intriguing new ones. Here’s a look at some of the manga we thought were the cream of the 2018 crop. Best […]
Summer is winding down, but it’s still miserable out here on the East Coast—nasty, sticky, humid heat that makes stepping outdoors feel like wading through a bowl of warm miso soup. It’s too hot to move, too hot to think, too hot to do anything except seek out someplace air conditioned and stay there as […]
The 2018 Eisner Awards, to be presented this coming Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, are the premier awards for the comics industry. While they have never suffered from the kind of controversy the Hugo Awards faced a couple of years ago, there are always a few good arguments to be had about what should have […]
We declared Golden Kamuy one of the best new manga of 2017, and we’re not the only ones feeling it: Satoru Noda’s frontier adventure manga won a 2016 Manga Taisho award, honoring outstanding new series, and an anime adaptation debuts next month in Japan. Following Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War who […]
U.S. manga publishers took on challenging and unusual series in 2017, even as they also played it safe with sequels to some of the top series of previous years. As 2017 heads into the history books, here’s a look at some of our favorite new series and one-shots of the year.