Staring at Japan’s “Fantasy Industrial Complex” at Anime NYC 2025 with Matt Alt By Luis Aguasvivas • October 2nd, 2025 “Anime is another form of drag for the human race.”
Osamu Tezuka and His Three Adolfs By Jorge Luis Leal Ramírez • February 18th, 2025 In Adolf ni Tsugu the horrors of World War II are clearly reflected: from the holocaust to the massacres carried out by the Japanese imperial forces.
Always Autumn Hoplophobia By Autumn Wright • July 17th, 2024 In the great tradition of obscuring the true big bad of its story, the ostensible antagonist of Chainsaw Man is a compelling kaiju.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Happens Next? By Phillip Russell • April 6th, 2021 Phil’s thinking about the ending of things.
Try Reading... Urasawa’s Biggest Series By Harry Rabinowitz • March 2nd, 2021 Naoki Urasawa is kind of a big deal.
Try Reading... A Year at a Comics Store By Harry Rabinowitz • December 28th, 2020 If you ever encounter a good bookseller, be nice to them. Okay? Okay.
The Radical Positivity of Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san By Kris Ligman • November 19th, 2018 I’ve been thinking a lot about radical positivity. About how, in a world full of objectively horrible things and an even greater volume of subjective nastiness, the most defiant act is to be kind.
