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The Drifting Classroom sounds pretty silly to the Western ear (still, a more apt description of the plot than Cowboy Bebop ). Especially wh...

I just found out that the MINX line of DC graphic novels was canceled a little over a year ago, due to retailers ghettoizing the line, not i...

If you let them, the books that DC publishing house Minx produce can take on the narrative quality of an F My Life page (not sure what that ...

Now an award-winning major motion picture in Japan, and an in-the-works major motion picture in Steven Spielberg's future, Oldboy tells ...

Morgan Freeman once chided the idea of Black History Month, since American history, as he saw it, is black history just as much as white his...

Northeast has been getting some flack for the apparent vacuousness of his art exercise, Prayer Requested, in which he found inspiration for ...

A spin-off series of Neil Gaiman's landmark Sandman books, Lucifer begins as an episodic, day-in-the-life-of-the-lightbringer tale, quic...

Not for the faint of heart, Tatsumi's work uses simplicity of line and expression to evoke the depths of human emotion. And I mean depth...

Gurewich is the modern day Gary Larson, except Larson’s body of work far exceeds Gurewich’s, and Gurewich is way dirtier and crueler. Wherea...

Another Scandinavian artist (like Jason) with a sense for simplicity. Dogs and Water tells the tale of a possibly post-apocalyptic desert wa...

Unarguably the single greatest achievement in the career of the most influential mangaka (Manga cartoonist) in Japan's history, Phoenix ...

Grim and moody as crime scene photos, but without the vulgarities of similar efforts, Rick Geary (famous for his work on the National Lampoo...

There are a lot of things that could turn you off about Jason. 1) He’s been called the Alfred Hitchcock of graphic literature. 2) His drawin...

The opposite of Leviathan in almost every way. This is the wordiest, most literary graphic novel I’ve ever read, which is paced with a geni...

Being wordless is something that can go either way in graphic novels. Either the images will command your will by their intricacies and maje...

A series so good that on the front of every volume is a different exclamatory quotation from a different, highly-regarded member of the uppe...