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Publisher: THQ Developer: 5th Cell System: Nintendo DS Available: Now Rating: E There's a lot you can do with two screens and a stylus pen, but let's face it, most developers ignore the obvious: drawing! One of the best uses of the touch-screen for drawing …Read more »
Oba Electroplating Factory is the latest collection of works from Yoshiharu Tsuge, the famous and influential mangaka who wrote Nejishiki. All of the stories here were originally published in the 70s. “Boarding House Days” has two men talking after not seeing each other for a …Read more »
Offshore Lightning is an alternative, literary, slice of life manga anthology. It has 11 short stories: “Towards the Sunset,” “Offshore Lightning,” “Parakeet God,” “Buy Dog Food, Then Go Home,” “Countdown,” “A Mother of Pearl Ship,” “Gingko,” “Upskirt,” “In Captivity,” and “House of Solitary Death.” There …Read more »
Talk to My Back is a sparsely illustrated and unsentimental look at married life. Originally published in Japan in the early 80s, it’s finally getting an English release. Talk to My Back was serialized in Garo, an influential alternative comics manga magazine, and one that …Read more »
© Tezuka Productions, used courtesy of Stone Bridge Press You’ve got to hand it to Tezuka Productions. Despite the “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka having been dead for more than 27 years, he’s never been more relevant to American fans than now. The secret is …Read more »
Yoshihiro Tatsumi is an astounding manga-ka, and it's a wonder that his work has been hitting store shelves over the last year or two in the form of Drawn & Quarterly's releases. If you haven't checked any of those out, from The Push Man and …Read more »
Sad news out of Japan today with the passing of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the legendary manga artist who pioneered gekiga, or manga aimed at adult audiences. He was 79. Tatsumi, born in 1935, coined the term “gekiga” (literally “dramatic pictures”) in 1957 to describe the dark, …Read more »
Oldies but goodies seems to be the theme of this week. We've got a series long in the waiting for a new volume and several new editions of previously released titles well worth the second chance. Add on top some full-color craziness and some continuing …Read more »
At this point we've had fairly ample room to explore some of the principle work from prolific mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi. His books published by Drawn & Quarterly manage to paint experienced visions through a lens that can be simultaneously distorted with hope and despair. We've …Read more »
If I remember correctly, the original 2006 Vertical edition of Ode to Kirihito was my first true exposure to a dark, somewhat self-contained Osamu Tezuka tale. It also may have been the largest bulk volume of manga I consumed prior to Drawn & Quarterly's release …Read more »
One of the readers over at Same Hat did some Detective Conan work on Amazon and dug up a juicy 2010 release from Drawn & Quarterly. The publisher will be putting out Yoshihiro Tatsumi's Black Blizzard ( Kuroi Fubuki ), the publication of which was …Read more »
This is as good a reason as any to make your way over to New York City in late April. The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, which runs from April 29th to May 4th, will be featuring, among a plethora of notable guests, …Read more »
Joseph Luster
Danica Davidson
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Daryl Surat
Matt Schley
Lissa Pattillo
