From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
There’s nothing like picking up a volume of manga and seeing something familiar staring back at you. Whether it’s bluesman Robert Johnson teaming up with outlaw Clyde Barrow in Me and the Devil Blues or a female Santa Claus with a reindeer boyfriend in Sweet Rein, manga creators have a way taking our familiar stories […]
From marauding giants to magical girls, manga has some of the best stories in comics, but it can be a bit intimidating to the newcomer. The books run “backwards,” and the conventions and visual “language” are different from American and European comics (although more and more non-Japanese creators are picking up on manga’s storytelling techniques). […]
