- 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

