One of the great frustrations of my silly little meaningless life of working retail and buying too many action figures is that I don’t set aside quite enough time to read all the manga I want to be reading. There are, at this moment, eighteen unread volumes of Ai Yazawa’s NANA sitting in a pile [...]
I always tell people I was doomed from the start. Before I was even born, my parents had purchased, for my cousin’s birthday, a pair of SHOGUN WARRIORS toys. The 4″ solid metal ones, a Poseidon and a Great Mazinga. They never got around to giving them to that boy, and the toys wound up [...]
by Jonathan L. Switzer
Bat-Manga! The Secret History of Batman in Japan
By Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear, and Saul Ferris
Story & Art by Jiro Kuwata
Published by Pantheon Books, $29.95
www.pantheonbooks.com
www.dccomics.com
By Jonathan L. Switzer
Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 11
Story & Art by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Original Concept by GAINAX - khara
Published by Viz Media, LLC, $9.99
www.viz.com
by Jonathan L. Switzer
Honey and Clover Vol. 1 & 2
Story & Art by Chica Umino
Published by Viz Media, $8.99 ea.
http://www.honeyandclover.us
http://www.shojobeat.com
One of the big stories in the comics world for the past, oh, five years or so has been the rise of manga as the new face of comics for most comics readers under, say, twenty. [...]