Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the exhibition’s generic name, in trying to be everything to everyone, it’s hard for Manga to satisfy anyone.
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A Manga Artist Breaks Down The Tale of Genji
The legendary novel has been reinterpreted hundreds of times over the centuries, and Yamato Waki will discuss her adaptation in New York City this weekend.
“Japan’s View of Pussy Is Really Weird”: Vagina Kayak Artist Releases Manga Memoir
For the past two years, we’ve been following the strange saga of criminalized Japanese “vagina artist” Megumi Igarishi.
The Massive Men of Homoerotic Manga
Amidst the magical girls and sentient robots that dominate the Japanese graphic novels and comics known as manga, pockets of intrigue and eroticism lie.
Iconic US Graphic Novel Publisher Calls it Quits
US-focused graphic novel publisher Tokyopop, founded in 1997, has announced that it will be closing the doors on its American operation on May 31. Tokyopop was the first to publish Japanese manga (comics, or graphic novels) in their original, un-flipped state and did much to popularize what has been called the “manga revolution.”