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OBA ELECTROPLATING FACTORY Writer: Yoshiharu Tsuge Artist: Yoshiharu Tsuge Translator: Ryan Holmberg Lettering: Anna Haifisch Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly Publication Date: August 13, 2024  Rating: Mature Genre: Slice-of-life manga   Volume 4 of Drawn and Quarterly’s release of the elder Tsuge’s collected works compiles...

Nejishiki introduces a collection of enigmatic and sexually graphic short manga unraveling Yoshiharu Tsuge's rawest emotions.

Earlier this morning Ryan Holmberg, an award-winning manga translator, historian, translator, and editor, revealed on Instagram that they have launched a brand new manga imprint, SMUDGE, alongside publisher, Living The Line. SMUDGE is described...

Latest from 'F' creator to be printed in English in 2024.

A hotly contested Graphic Novel category isn't the only place to find comics related material in this year's LA Book Prize finalists – Alex Segura’s novel Secret Identity landed a spot in the Mystery/Thriller category.

Breakdown Press have announced two new collections up for pre-order: John's Worth by Jonathan Chandler; and Baby Boom - an English-language debut of more Yokoyama Yuichi work expected to ship November 2022

Summer may only be just around the corner but here are Drawn & Quarterly's solicits for Winter 2023, with eight titles to look forward to in the first four months of next year. 

Manga isn't all awkward schoolgirls and giant robots. There has long been a very strong alternative and literary thread of manga, and two recent articles give you some perspective on it. I would call Ryan Holmberg's Proto-Gekiga: Matsumoto Masahiko’s Komaga a must read, but I have to confess, it is very long and involved, and I have set it aside for weekend reading. BUT the important thing is that he compares and contrasts Yoshihiro Tatsumi, who is kind of credited as the father of "gekiga" or realistic manga, with Matsumoto Masahiko, a figure who appears in Tatsumi's autobiographical A Drifting Life under another name. Masahiko's work went down a slightly different path than Tatsumi's but Holmberg shows that it was equally important:

Manga isn’t all awkward schoolgirls and giant robots. There has long been a very strong alternative and literary thread of manga, and two recent articles give you some perspective on it. I would...