Fumiyo Kouno’s In This Corner of the World is a beautiful manga about a terrible time, a story of ordinary people in one little corner of Japan living their lives under the increasing duress of World War II. Kouno’s story begins in the 1930s and ends in November 1945; although the characters experience the bombing […]
It’s one thing to get book recommendations from your friends. Getting them from people who actually make stories for a living is something else entirely. At this year’s New York Comic-Con, comics creators Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine), Elsa Charretier (Unstoppable Wasp), and Jeremy Whitley (Princeless) convened the “Get Started Reading Comics” panel […]
Even the most dedicated manga fan can feel weak at the knees at the prospect of plunging into a 70-volume series (or even a relatively trim 20-volume one), and forget trying to convince someone unfamiliar with the medium to dive right into the deep end. Not all manga is interminable, however: many manga-ka can tell a […]