From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
We’ve already pored over the Eisner nominees for new series and graphic novels; now, let’s take a look at the contenders for the year’s top honors in manga. Choosing the nominees for the Eisners is a tough gig. I know from experience—I was an Eisner judge myself a couple of years ago, and saw firsthand how […]
From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
We know it’s hard to resist that latest shiny volume of My Hero Academia, but with the rise of digital rescues, a growing trend of anime adaptations of older properties, and a renewed interest in classic manga, there’s a slew of titles from the 1980s and ’90s becoming newly available after spending a stint out […]
Summer is over—head back to school with three solid high school romances, two shoujo and one yuri. If romance isn’t your bag, there’s plenty of escape reading as well—sci-fi, a Naruto gag manga, a crazy conclusion to the saga of Master Keaton, and an all-in-one omnibus edition of Death Note.
