Just one book this week, but what a book! How could I mention anything else in the same breath as… Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan Compiled, edited and Designed by Chip Kidd Photography by Geoff Spear From the Collection of Saul Ferris Translated by Anne Ishii Pantheon, October 2008, $29.95 paperback/$60 hardcover…
This time I’ll be reviewing the second volumes of three series that I covered the first time around – so I should know what’s going on. But, with manga, that can be a dangerous assumption… Kieli, Vol. 2 Story By Yukako Kabei; art by Shiori Teshirogi Yen Press, October 2008, $10.99 I reviewed the first…
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has defended several arists and retailers in the past. But now, for the first time, they have been called to aid an actual comic book collector. Christopher Handley of Iowa is facing obscenity charges under the PROTECT Act (18 U.S.C. section 14661) for ordering and possessing manga that is…
This week: three books with very little in common. Oh, they’re all recently published – on paper, and in English, even! – but that’s about it. So you won’t be bothered by my heavy-handed attempts to link everything together this time…. B.Ichi, Vol. 1 By Atsushi Ohkubo Yen Press, October 2008, $10.99 In the nation…
A lot of manga take place in high schools – and that’s natural, since the original audience for most of the popular manga series were Japanese teenagers, and it’s hard to find someone more self-obsessed than a teenager. So ignoring high school would almost mean ignoring manga all together, and I wouldn’t want to do…
This week, I have two fat books about the unlikely adventures of (on one hand) a scarred, secretive, arrogant doctor and (on the other) a self-doubting lawyer who defends the innocent. And since I couldn’t see throwing anyone else in between Black Jack and Phoenix Wright, those two will get the whole column to themselves,…
Del Rey Manga has partnered with Cartoon Network Enterprises to form a new Manga publishing imprint. The deal will debut original Manga based on two current Cartoon Network series, Bakugan Battle Brawlers and Ben 10 Alien Force (already in comic form via DC Comics). The first titles will feature color stills from Bakugan Battle Brawlers:…
I haven’t reviewed books about sex in close to a month, so it must be time again, right? (As always, I’m reviewing what I have on hand, so, if you publish manga and want me to cover it, contact me at the e-mail address far below.If you don’t publish manga, but want me to review…
Yen Press launched a new manga magazine last month called Yen+ (or maybe Yen Plus), to compete directly with those twin 800-pound gorillas of manga in America, Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat. I now have the first three issues here in my hands, so let’s take a look at Yen+ and see what’s in it….
I haven’t done a week of jumping-into-the-middle in a while, so I thought it was about time to try that out again. This time, I have three books from Yen Press, all second volumes in series that I haven’t read before. So let’s see if they make any sense to me… Goong, Vol. 2 By…
This week was going to be Samurai Week, but I threw in a book about psychics for spice – just to keep it interesting. Dororo, Vol. 3 By Osamu Tezuka Vertical, August 2008, $13.95 This is the third and final book in a samurai saga from Tezuka, the “godfather of manga.” (I’ve previously reviewed volume…
I’ve generally tried to organize the weekly columns around some sort of theme, but sometimes themes just serve to hide the variety and depth of the comics world (whatever country it might be from). So, this week, I picked three books with nothing at all in common (except a Japanese origin), just because: Nightmares for…
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