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Sumika and Ushio are best friends. Athletic Sumika has a secret that she cannot confess – she’s in love with Ushio, who only loves girly girls. When they and their crossdressing male classmate Masaki are drawn into a crazy, mixed-up love triangle, many Whispered Words remain unspoken. Sumika and Ushio are best friends. Athletic Sumika…
Sumika and Ushio are best friends. Athletic Sumika has a secret that she cannot confess – she’s in love with Ushio, who only loves girly girls, or so it seems. Ushio and Sumika continue their lovesick woes in the third installment and many Whispered Words still remain unspoken.
This volume features entries exploring the impact and history of women in comics. From Lily Renée in the 1940s to women currently working in comics like Glynnis Fawkes, JCC Volume 8 examines a both the portrayal of women in comic books and the roles of women in the comic book industry. This peer-reviewed journal was…
Young author Aki Fujino appeared poised to making it big in the world of publishing. Her debut title UTSUBORA was being pitched about to a number of editors and at least one person felt it was set to propel her into stardom. However, before she could ever have her book published, the young woman was…
Toshiko Tomura is a genius; the darling of the intelligentsia. A modern-day Michelangelo, this twenty year-old is already an established international stage actress, an up-and-coming architect, and the next recipient of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize as Japan’s best new writer. Her actions make headlines in the papers, and inspire radio and television programming. And like…
If you are aware of fashion in Japan you must have seen Liliko’s face. For the last few years she has been at the top of the modeling world, with her face and body promoting the biggest brands. But as everyone who is in this world admits, staying on top is a constant and never…
ENJOY this 8.5×11″ newly illustrated graphic album digitally remastered for 2014: containing Charm School issues no. 1 and 2, a bonus Bunny and Fairer Than ‘Breaktime’ story, the first appearance of Bunny, the Good Teen Witch, in Action Girl Comics no. 13, and the Addams-Gorey’esque debut of Fey Dently, Vampyre. Foreword by Trina Robbins. Graphique…
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 – A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil’s debut, tells the stories of three unforgettable women. Amy weaves her own coming-of-age as a young Jewish artist into the narrative of her mother, a psychologist,…
Wendy Winkworth visits her hometown and is hired by a local teacher to find out if his ex-con mother is going to show up and ruin his chances of marrying the love of his life, who is also the richest girl in town. Meanwhile, the sheriff is trailing Wendy, either because he likes her or…
Yumiko moonlights as a call girl because her day job doesn’t pay enough to feed her pet Croc. Haru an aspiring writer who has nothing to say, sleeps with a woman his mother’s age not just for the money but to work on his “powers of observation”. So when Yumi’s step-mom turns out to be…
In this second installment of Fumi Yoshinaga’s deliciously charming slice-of-gay-life, we delve into the beginnings of Shiro and Kenji’s relationship. Shiro continues to expand his culinary creativity while dealing with problomatic clients and his well-meaning but misguided mother, who comes to rely on him when a health scare hits close to home.
From the pen of Moyoco Anno comes a stunning tale of self-image and self-loathing. In Clothes Called Fat details the lives of young women earnestly revealing the struggles women may have with their bodies and sexuality. Noko appears to be living a great life, she’s got a good job and a loving boyfriend, but beneath…
This slice of life graphic novel is a coming-of-wisdom story. A deep longing ignites a quest for understanding to support the healing process as Jewel struggles to pick up the pieces of her fractured life. Her husband Clark gets caught up in the negative affects of power and fame in a society that promotes these…
A gracefully aging chorus boy who packs a pistol and carries a P.I. license, a down-on-his luck football stud who might not be as shocked as one might expect upon learning that some boys do more than bathe in a bathhouse, and a vivacious vixen with a taste for rough trade and a roomful of…
Longing for Something Bigger From the Eisner Award-nominated Inio Asano, creator of Solanin and Nijigahara Holograph, comes one of his most challenging works yet–an intense teen romance set in what may at first glance be one of the sleepiest places in Japan. When Koume and Keisuke’s relationship begins to take shape, it is apparent that…
“Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world. –Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be…
