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). […]
At Anime Boston this year, Kodansha Comics dropped some good news on us, announcing they are taking Vinland Saga off hiatus. Bloody and philosophical in equal measure, this Viking tale is a richly textured piece of historical fiction set during the Danish invasion of England in the early 11th century. It’s from Makoto Yukimura, the creator of Planetes, and just […]
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). […]