MANGA
Comic Critic: "A Drifting Life"
- Few can claim "inventor" status; even fewer can do so with undeniable evidence. In the case of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, though, the title is God-given: the ...
03/23/09 - 0 comments
Comic Critic: Naoki Urasawa‘s "20th Century Boys" and "Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka"
- At Anthem we’re open to comics of all shapes and sizes, featuring anything from superheroes to bookish outcasts. If it has a good story, we're inter...
03/05/09 - 13 comments
Comic Critic: "Disappearance Diary"
- It takes a lot of guts―and a hearty dose of depression―to just pick up and leave society, but that's precisely what renowned Japanese manga artist...
12/23/08 - 0 comments
Holiday Gift Guide: "Tokyo Zombie"
- Horror and comedy don't often merge in such a sublime way, but with Yusaku Hanakuma's U.S. manga debut, Tokyo Zombie (Last Gasp), they most definitely...
12/11/08 - 0 comments
Holiday Gift Guide: Vertical Inc.
- The American book market was, for the longest time, massively deficient in English translations of Japanese books. The 1970s and 1980s brought a trick...
12/03/08 - 0 comments
Comic Critic: Yuichi Yokoyama's "Travel"
- Three men enter a station, hop on a train, experience a normal sort of ride, and jump off at their destination. Simple? Not so much.
It's been not...
11/21/08 - 0 comments
Comic Critic: Osamu Tezuka's "Black Jack" Vol. 1 & 2
- Little introduction is needed for manga legend Osamu Tezuka. The innovator essentially spawned manga as we know it today with popular, classic titles ...
10/31/08 - 0 comments
Comic Critic: "Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman In Japan"
- Superhero comics tend to not really stick in Japan, a nation dominated by manga that features massive groups of protagonists rather than lone riders. ...
10/29/08 - 0 comments
Seiichi Hayashi's "Red Colored Elegy"
- 1960s Japan was a tumultuous era of revolution in which the dramatically separated left and right viciously and violently came head-to-head for a batt...
08/01/08 - 0 comments
Osamu Tezuka's "Dororo"
- Oftentimes, an artist's work superceds his name, and this rings particularly true in the world of Japanese manga, a format that evokes cheesy, gimmick...
07/17/08 - 0 comments
