Comictober 2018: GYO By Junji Ito
What if fish had legs, and were filled with gas that smelled like a human corpse? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? If you have then boy do I have a Manga for you, and my personal therapists number...
When Japanese Influences Meet Western Art Schools: a roundtable
In late March, a wave of discussion took over Twitter’s comics community on the topic of using manga- and anime-inspired art styles while in art school. Many reported being discouraged from taking influence...
Review: ‘ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE’ #1
ZOMBIES ASSEMBLE #1 - Marvel Richard "Bishop" Zom@eyebzombie The post-apocalyptic era of comics and lore has been on a steady wavelength of popularity. We have bear witness to overnight ink and paper...
Seeing Yourself in the Negative: Tokyo Ghoul & I
A major aspect of fiction is reflection: how worlds and characters reflect our world and ourselves, how fantastical situations can serve as allegory to our everyday actions. But “everyday actions” are not...
Glitterbomb & Helter Skelter: Studying Image From Without & Within
The thing about Glitterbomb is that it reads so male. Not masculine — male. As in not by women, but about them. I say “them” despite being a lady myself because that’s the effect this comic has: it...
Saying Goodbye to Childhood in Goodnight Punpun
The first collection of Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano is a tale of growing up that is equal parts humorous and tragic, dense and simple, sincere and exaggerated. When writing children, adults often create...
Keeping It Ghastly: Magical Girl Apocalypse Vol 1
The tag line reads, “Not your mommy's magical girls”. Oh boy is that the truth. This time on “Keeping It Ghastly” we'll be taking a look at the seinen zombie-magical girl mashup series – Magical Girl...
Review: “7th Garden”
The second manga of newcomer Izumi Mitsu, known for his work on AnoHana (Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai), 7th Garden is published in Shueisha's monthly shounen magazine, Jump SQ. Viz...
Keeping It Ghastly: Anomal
Anomal is a collection of short stories that is loosely centered around yokai and things of a generally supernatural origin. (I say generally because chapter three is a detective story that is about as...
Review: “Black Clover” – A Bit like Rooting for the Underdog
The winner of Jump's Future Golden Cup award, Tabata Yuuki pens his second series with Black Clover. Originally published in Weekly Shounen Jump, Viz picks up the series in English under the same label. Taylor...