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Review: Ryuko VOL. 1 Is At Odds With Itself
Titan Comics (w/a) Eldo Yoshimizu Awhile back Titan Comics announced their first Japan title in the Hard Case Crime line, Eldo Yoshimizu’s...
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Review: A Wondrous Journey With “Wandering Island Vol. 2”
Dark Horse Comics (W/A) Kenji Tsuruta In recent years, manga and most forms of entertainment seem to push only have a few genre’s at the...
Review: ‘Mangasia’ is a Fascinating Journey Through Asian Comic Art
Mangasia is a must-buy for anybody who wants to learn about the history of comics in nearly two dozen Asian countries. Master comics historian...
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...
JAM’s Top 10 for 2016
Editor's Note: While most other comic websites push their writers to collaborate on one definitive list of the "best" comics of 2016, Comics...
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...
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...
Spitting Out Osamu Tezuka’s “Swallowing the Earth”
Welcome to Comic Book G-Forces, a bi-weekly column that serves as a hybrid of new and republished criticism from comic book writer Christopher M....
Keeping It Ghastly: I Am A Hero Ombnibus Vol 1
Hideó Suzuki has a hard time with social interactions, but when he's alone it all seems alright. He has locked doors to keep out intruders, an...
Keeping It Ghastly: Franken Fran Omnibus Vol 1
It's the stuff of 1950s and 60s double features that drives Katsuhisa Kigitsu's stories of grotesque medical misadventure. Fran Madaraki is the...
Keeping It Ghastly: Nijigahara Holograph
This time on "Keeping It Ghastly" I'll be crawling out of the catacombs of my English-language horror manga collection and going over something a...
Keeping It Ghastly: Blood Sucker – Legend of Zipangyu Vol 1
Resurrected three centuries after his defeat at the hands of the samurai Naonosuke, the powerful vampire Migiri has reasserted himself as a deadly...
Keeping It Ghastly: The Drifting Classroom Vol 1 & 2
What time is it? Kazuo Umezu time! From the creator of Scary Book, Orochi: Blood and Reptilia comes a sci-fi horror series aptly named The Drifting...
Keeping It Ghastly: Biomega Vol 1
2016 is turning out to be a Sci-fi horror year for me. I rewatched The Thing, Event Horizon and Alien, read Parasyte vol 1 for Comics Bulletin, and...
Keeping It Ghastly: Another
Welcome to 2016! In the last week Iran and Saudi Arabia have been at each other's throats, the gun debate in the US has reached a tipping point,...