If you’re reading your manga one volume at a time, you’re getting the story, but you might be missing some of the art: most translated manga is published in paperback, with black and white interiors, in a standard 5-inch by 7-inch format. In Japan, manga is serialized in larger-format magazines that often include color pages. […]
Teens and adults fueled the original U.S. manga boom as well as its recent second wave, but kids like comics too—in fact, we’ve seen a huge uptick in graphic novels for readers 12 and under in the past decade. But what about manga? Everyone knows about Pokémon (and we do love it so), but what […]
