Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. Up now is Gyo, a bizarre horror manga by legendary artist Junji Ito, best know for his incredible series Uzumaki. Gyo was first published in the seinen (young men’s) magazine Big Comic Spirits […]
Adventures in the Floating World: Detroit Metal City
Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. This month, it’s Detroit Metal City, a bizarre comedy manga about Japan’s most extreme death metal band that originally ran in Young Animal, a Japanese lads’ mag of sorts, beginning in […]
Adventures in the Floating World: Gantz
Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. This month, he digs into the bizarre sci-fi horror series Gantz, which debuted in Weekly Young Jump in Japan in 2000 and has been reprinted in North America since 2008 […]
Adventures in the Floating World: Lone Wolf and Cub
Once a month, Nick Hanover educates himself on manga by going on Adventures in the Floating World, learning about series he has missed out on over the years. This month he tackles the legendary Lone Wolf and Cub, an epic series that was originally published in North America by First Comics in 1987 and has more recently been […]
Adventures in the Floating World: 20th Century Boys Vol. 1
I’ve been reading and enjoying comics for most of my life, but one area I’ve never explored as much as I should has been Asian comics. Part of that is because when I was growing up, comic book stores did not stock much— or more frequently, any— Asian comics. True, they didn’t stock much in […]
