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Artwork from SHIGERU MIZUKI'S HITLER is copyright Mizuki Productions, and provided courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly. Shigeru Mizuki is one of the most magical manga artists: sometimes scary, sometimes wryly funny, always human and humane. Drawn & Quarterly has been doing the Lord’s own work …Read more »
You don’t see many manga based on tabletop role-playing games these days. For the most part they’ve been supplanted by manga (oh so many manga) based on video gaming, so there’s a certain retro charm to Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls …Read more »
PictureBox’s groundbreaking anthology The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame introduced the English-speaking world to manga by and for gay men via Tagame, one of the legends in the field. Sadly, PictureBox went out of business before it could publish its planned follow-up, an ambitious survey of …Read more »
Takeo is the go-getter young president of "an I.T. venture corporation exceeding profits of 5 billion a year," but beneath his wealth and power he's an awkward, virginal otaku. He wears glasses. Fumiaki is "Fumi-chan," slacker office clerk and Takeo's crush of 17 years. He …Read more »
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