Word: manga
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...PUSH MAN & OTHER STORIES By Yoshihiro Tatsumi edited and designed by Adrian Tomine. THE PUSH MAN is the debut volume in a new series of short stories by the cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, the grandfather of alternative manga. (September...
...GHOST IN THE SHELL 2-ANI-MANGA By Shirow Masamune The definitive 4-volume, full color boxed set inspired by the hit anime film about the struggle between humans and cyborgs to coexist with each other in a wildly futuristic Earth. (April...
...FULL METAL ALCHEMIST By Arakawa Hiromu A long awaited 9-volume manga series that tells the story of young brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric who attempt to use the science of alchemy to bring their mother back to life, with life changing and action packed results. (June...
...soap dish with his pinky extended." Hanawa recreates this alien world with laser-like detail, bringing us right into the very mindset of a prisoner. Astonishingly, he has done so completely from memory, having been prevented from drawing while in prison. Displaying the greatest artistic versatility of the nouvelle manga group, Hanawa moves from sharp realism to dramatic expressionism. In one sequence, Hanawa's face darkens with panic at the prospect of retrieving a dropped eraser. The end result is a fascinating anthropology of a culture that would seem foreign even to the Japanese...
...remains to be seen whether nouvelle manga will amount to a real movement. It would help if two or more masterworks appeared under such a label. Neither Jiro Taniguchi's "The Walking Man" nor Kazuichi Hanawa's "Doing Time" have quiet enough depth to justify calling them "masterworks." Even so, these Franco-Japanese creations are some of the most unusual, fascinating comix published this year...