Hafu. That’s Japanese for anyone who’s half-Japanese. It can either have an “exotic” or negative connotation depending on the person and situation. It’s not pleasant being a hafu in Japanese. Christine Mari experienced this reality and shared her experience in her comic “Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self Discovery.” Christine Mari is half-American, and half-Japanese. She moved to the US from Japan when she was five and has been […]
Graphic novels have been around for decades. Nowadays it seems like we take for granted that there are thousands of graphic novels available. That was not the case once upon a time. Pictures in books were only meant to be illustrations that accompanied the book, not the entire book. Early 19th-century artist Lynd Ward changed all that by creating God’s Man, a “wordless novel” made up of 139 woodblocks that […]
For the past four months or so I have been playing “Bloodborne.” I’m no expert who can beat these games wearing no armor and not get hit once (in fact, I suck at these games to the point I over-level. Yeah, I know.) So it comes as no surprise that I found out there were four Bloodborne comic books, all written by Ales Kott with artists Piotr Kowalski and Brad […]
That’s right, I’m reviewing another Speak adaptation. I do like that book that much. This time it’s the graphic novel with artist Emily Carroll. As with the previous two, the plot is about high schooler Melinda who everyone hates because she went to a party and called the cops, getting everyone in trouble. The real reason and this is no longer a spoiler, she got raped at that party but […]
If it wasn’t obvious from the thirty-one horror reviews I did last October, I love Halloween. So whenever I see anything even remotely associated with Halloween it’s mine. So the second I saw a graphic novel called Pumpkinheads and it takes place on Halloween IN A PUMPKIN PATCH I had to get read it. It was not what I was expecting. Written by Rainbow Rowell with artist Faith Erin Hicks, […]
George Takei is probably THE most famous Japanese-American actor. Some people may only know him as that guy who says “oh my” but to those in the know he’s Sulu from Star Trek. So, of course, anything this man puts out the fans will lap it up. The most recent thing he created is a memoir comic book called They Called Us Enemy It’s World War II and the Japanese […]
Akira Toriyama is best known as the creator of the Dragonball franchise. He has, however, done plenty of non-Dragonball manga that are super short (one volume) and a lot more kid-friendly. One of them is the comedy-horror themed Cowa! Paifu, a half-vampire half-werekoala (yes) decides to go to a witch who has the cure that will help cure the citizens of his village from the monster flu. Along with his […]
Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida is an interesting manga series. It has an interesting plot, setting and characters. Then it all went downhill. Tokyo Ghoul is about Ken Kaneki who one day goes on a date with a ghoul who almost kills him and causes an accident that kills her. He has surgery where some of the ghoul girl’s organs are transplanted into him, turning him into a ghoul. Now […]
Before I start, I just want to say that I will try my best to keep the politics to a minimum and focus more on the graphic novel as a whole. Immigration in the United States is a super complicated topic that I will not get into on this blog. This is a review blog and, while I do review things that have political leanings in them, I do my […]
You’ll have to forgive me, dear reader, for I have not updated this site in two months. Life gets in the way of us creative types. In fact, I wasn’t going to do a review today since I hade neither the drive nor the topic to write one. That changed when I finally read that comic I bought at Xaverian High School Comic-Con back in May. That comic is called […]
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