🌟 New Article Series by @sara.pizza 🌟 The Manga Letters – Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko American Manga Awards nominee Phil Christie’s work on Search and Destroy is a master class in manga lettering yattatachi.com/the-manga-le...

Phil Christie is your favorite letterer’s favorite letterer

Great manga lettering is like a date night outfit—it helps people fall in love with what's underneath, even if you'd be hard pressed to consciously explain why. This excellent piece delves into what makes Phil Christie one of the best in the business.

Shakespeare Manga Theater The second of four Osamu Tezuka books I'm thrilled to be presenting with ABLAZE Publishing and Tezuka Productions. This one is a collection of Shakespeare-inspired stories told with sequential art. 1/x

"...Tezuka's style, which brings the characters' antics to life. His passion for Shakespeare's stories is evident in his unique take on the tales, and that devotion that makes this collection worthwhile." Thank you, Nubia Jade Brice asianmoviepulse.com/2024/03/mang...

The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma halves the risk of patients dying or the disease returning. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

some relationships that made me are with people who only live in stories but live so strongly that they are still changing me #tanka #poetry #librariesforever

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One Hundred Tales A wonderful book (a manga, comic, graphic novel, illustrated story, etc.) by the great Osamu Tezuka, who, in his early forties in 1971, adapted the Faust legend as a samurai period piece in Weekly Shonen Jump. 1/5

Comics can take you anywhere

Solar eclipse on April 8 www.usatoday.com/story/graphi...?

Congratulations to HOUSES WITH A STORY: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Seiji Yoshida tr by Jan Mitsuko Cash for the Batchelder Award

Japanese to English translation competitions in 2024! The JLPP is already open now offering two categories in contemporary and classic literature. You have 6 months to complete them, but they're hard so don't wait until the last week to start! j-entranslations.com/japanese-to-...

I'm gonna paraphrase something @kameronhurley.bsky.social said a number of years ago: Your publisher will try to take as many rights off your work as they can for the least amount of remuneration. Your role is to retain as many rights as possible. This is the game. It's not personal. Negotiate.

Thank you, Katherine Dacy. mangacritic.mangabookshelf.com/2024/01/09/t...

Family names. I love them. They also don't matter. We have so many. We use one or two. But we have more. Our matrilineal names get dropped. I loathe that. But we can't keep track of them all. There's not enough time. Shouldn't try to know them all. Life's short. It's also long. It's all so long.

I'm American and I'm saying date order Month Day, Year makes no sense. Except it does when you think about talking. "Today is February 3." And then you tack on the year. When naming files in folders, Year Month Day is best. 27 March 2024: www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP2...

Cartoon fair and screening, Saturday, Feb. 3 from 6 to 9 PM, 128 East 63rd Street (Park & Lex) societyillustrators.org/event/spit-s...

"Though it is inspired by Faust, it quickly becomes a charmingly bittersweet and humorous samurai adventure." Thank you, Samantha King screenrant.com/osamu-tezuka...

strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/... Thank you, Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social

"The question of whether or not demons can actually change opens a new dimension for Faust stories." Thank you, Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social and The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social www.tcj.com/reviews/one-...

"But whether a character is making a deal with the devil or a yokai, it’s not going to work out the way the character plans." otakuusamagazine.com/tezuka-spins...? Thank you, Danica Davidson

"Osamu Tezuka’s One Hundred Tales is a masterful rendition of the old Faust tale, done in a trademark way unique to the 'Godfather of Manga.' It’s equal parts funny and sad, and it leaves us with an ending that is both uplifting and wistful. 1/2

"He refused to die at the start because he was so displeased with what life had handed him. Doesn't it make sense that he might feel differently once his wishes are fulfilled?" Thank you, Rebecca Silverman. www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2023...

"Throughout the book, the work has a certain warmth; Tezuka comes across as a good friend who knows how to comfort, entertain, and make merry." Thank you, Adam Symchuck. asianmoviepulse.com/2023/10/mang...

Words can’t describe how happy I am to be reading some new Tezuka

Just posted my Q&A with Rich Young from ABLAZE about their Kickstarter campaign for Gannibal, a gory, gripping "something's very wrong in a small town" horror manga & their manga publishing plans for @comicsbeat.bsky.social - www.comicsbeat.com/ablaze-publi...

First batch of Thursday restocks! Kyodai! Tezuka! Tamaki! Kobabe! Walker! Tynion! Darrow! De Felici! Kirkman! Drnaso! Jansson! And more!

Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social reviews One Hundred Tales, the newest translation of work by the great Osamu Tezuka, a 1971 serial transforming the tale of Faust into a romantic and comical boys’ samurai manga. www.tcj.com/reviews/one-...