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One of the most popular manga genres is the “magical girl” story. Initially inspired by the domestic and mischievous witches from the American sitcom Bewitched, magical girls are often the natives of a realm where magic is commonplace and taken for granted. Their stories revolve around the development of their magical abilities – which, much [...]
Continue reading...Katherine reads the book with the almost unprouncable name and finds it good – Tekkonkinkreet
4. July 2008
Until last week, if you’d asked me about my favourite manga, I would have named Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura as the #1, with Osamu Tezuka’s Buddha and Ariyoshi Kyoko’s Swan vying for second place. But now I’ve read Tekkonkinkreet and Blade of the Immortal has to take the silver, because Tekkonkinkreet is [...]
Continue reading...Three links
1. July 2008
There are three links I want to draw your attention to today, my dear readers. The first is the Irish Comics Wiki. Ireland’s comics scene is small but lively, and while the Wiki is so new that it doesn’t have much information up at the moment, with participation from knowledgeable types it’ll grow into an [...]
Continue reading...The dark age of comics?
20. June 2008
Recently I’ve been reading The Dark Age: Grim, Great and Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics by Mark Voger, and it’s been making me think. Conventional wisdom has it that the 1990s were a bad time for American comics. This was the era of the speculation boom-and-bust, of Marvel’s acquisition of Heroes World distributors which led to the [...]
Continue reading...The DFC – Katherine’s take
11. June 2008
My first copy of The DFC appeared the other day – I know we’ve already talked about it on here (see Kenny’s thoughts on it), but I just had to write about it myself. I was raised on British weekly comics, and the news that Random House were launching a new weekly comic with a [...]
Continue reading...Can we still be friends? Katherine thinks so
3. June 2008
We Can Still Be Friends Written and illustrated by Mawil Since Richard’s reviewed one of the new releases from Blank Slate Books (Trains Are Mint, reviewed here), I thought I’d take a look at the other one: We Can Still Be Friends by German cartoonist Mawil. I picked the book up with some trepidation, because it seemed [...]
Continue reading...Katherine picks up her chopsticks to tuck into a generous portion of Rice Boy
23. May 2008
What can I say about Evan Dahm’s Rice Boy? I could say that it’s the best webcomic I’ve ever read. I could say that it’s a surreal epic on a scale very few creators even attempt to cover. I could say that it’s captivating, charming, beautiful, moving, and utterly unique. I could say that if [...]
Continue reading...Kurosagi Corpse Delivery – a service recommened by Katherine
16. May 2008
Recently I picked up the first volume of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Outsuka and Housui Yamazaki, based on Shaenon Garrity’s recommendation. Shaenon Garrity knows manga, and she has excellent taste, so I figured a series she likes as much as she obviously likes Kurosagi had to be a safe bet. And it [...]
Continue reading...Katherine gets the feeling she may have been here before…
7. May 2008
Déjà Vu – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Korea has a flourishing comics or “manwha” culture that’s becoming more and more accessible in the West as manwha titles are translated in greater numbers. Youn In-wan’s Deja-Vu is a great introduction to manwha: it’s not only a terrific work that draws on Korean history and culture, but [...]
Continue reading...Rising With the Light
5. May 2008
With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child Volume 2 Written and illustrated by Keiko Tobe Keiko Tobe’s With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child is unusual among the manga available in English. It’s fictional, but based on real events and individuals and, while it tells a story, its purpose is more to educate than to entertain. Yen [...]
Continue reading...Katherine takes her principles for a look round Clarence’s weird little world
21. April 2008
The Clarence Principle Written by Fehed Said, with art by Shari Chankhamma Every so often, I review graphic novels for The Irish Times. This is a pretty good gig: I get to talk about comics in a national newspaper, introducing some of the best works available to an audience that might otherwise never even hear about them. [...]
Continue reading...Carl Barks: a trip down memory lane
15. April 2008
I started young. When I was knee-high to a leprechaun – maybe four years old? Maybe five? – my grandmother took me to a market. It was a bright, sunny Saturday morning, somewhere in South County Dublin; I don’t remember whether we were in Blackrock or Dun Laoghaire, but I do remember that somebody was [...]
Continue reading...Fantasy comics: Dark Wraith of Shannara, North World
7. April 2008
Fantasy and comics seem to be natural bedfellows. With a comic, unlike a film, there’s no reason for a dragon or a unicorn to look any less real than the rest of what we can see, and unlike with a novel, the awkward issue of how to describe something that’s never existed and never could [...]
Continue reading...Could 2008 have the blockbustingest summer ever?
26. March 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I went to see There Will Be Blood (excellent film), and during the trailers was struck by a sudden realisation: for science fiction and comics geeks, this summer’s cinema is going to be awesome. (the new Jolly Green Giant advert was deemed not to be friendly enough for consumers) Let’s see: we [...]
Continue reading...Match it for Pratchett
18. March 2008
We’ve mentioned before on this blog that Terry Pratchett, creator of the Discworld, has donated nearly £500,000 to fund research into Alzheimer’s disease after being diagnosed last December. Well, his fans, inspired by his example, have started a campaign to double his donation. Via the website, you can donate or buy a T-shirt, and one [...]
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