Kitaro
10 best books like Kitaro (Shigeru Mizuki): Strange Tale of Panorama Island, Cat Eyed Boy, Vol. 1, Fallen Words, Pim and Francie: The Golden Bear Days, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Red Snow, Gold Pollen and Other Stories, Tonoharu: Part One, GOGOモンスター, Garden
Strange Tale of Panorama Island
| Author | Suehiro Maruo |
| ISBN | 0867197323 |
Spoiler Alert! no, wait, I guess not. it's in the title after all. right there, front and center: Panorama Island. specifically the various Panoramas of various World Fairs of a century or so ago. and thus the island's great secret is blown.
no matter. Strange Tale is less about secrets waiting...
| Author | Kazuo Umezu |
| ISBN | 1421517922 |
Cat-Eyed Boy is a half-human, half-monster child who mostly resembles a human, and therefore cannot live in the demon world. He lives hidden in the shadows of the human world, hated by both demons and humans. But wherever he goes, awful events occur. Humans interact with demons, but for the most part...
| Author | Yoshihiro Tatsumi |
| ISBN | 1770460748 |
A NEW COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM THE FOREFATHER OF THE JAPANESE LITERARY COMICS MOVEMENT
In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted...
| Author | Al Columbia |
| ISBN | 1606993046 |
This gorgeous grimoire is part alchemy, part art book, part storybook, part comic book, and part conceptual art from the pen of Al Columbia, a longtime fan favorite contributor to comics anthologies like Zero Zero, Blab , and more recently, MOME. Collecting over a decade s worth of artifacts, excavations,...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Susumu Katsumata |
| ISBN | 1897299869 |
Continuing D+Q's groundbreaking exploration of the fascinating world of Gekiga, this collection of short stories is drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by the legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the premodern Japanese countryside of the author's youth,...
| Author | Seiichi Hayashi |
| ISBN | 1939799074 |
Seiichi Hayashi was a leading figure in the hotbed of avant-garde artistic production of 1960s and early 70s Tokyo. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for "Garo," the famous alternative comics magazine. This volume collects a selection of Hayashi's most important manga from this...
| Author | Lars Martinson |
| ISBN | 0980102324 |
Daniel Wells begins a new life as an assistant junior high school teacher in the rural Japanese village of Tonoharu. Isolated from those around him by cultural and language barriers, he leads a monastic existence, peppered only by his inept pursuit of the company of a fellow American who lives a couple...
GoGo Monster has become a reference buoy in my life. When I am adrift (and I am often adrift, sometimes pleasantly sometimes harrowingly) and I need to catch some sight or sign of home, some home lived only ever within my skin, some look-back to a complex of early feelings - feelings of awkwardness and alienation,...
| Author | Yuichi Yokoyama |
| ISBN | 0982632711 |
A group of friends is attempting to enter a garden just beyond a wall. When they succeed, the garden they finally enter is no Eden, but rather a massive landscape of machines, geometric forms and all manner of nonorganic objects. In Japanese comic-book artist Yuichi Yokoyama's newest and longest (at...
| Author | Osamu Tezuka |
| ISBN | 1935654322 |
In a time of constant warfare, a samurai lord barters away his newborn son's organs in exchange for victory on the battlefield. Yet the abandoned infant survives, saved by a skilled medicine man who trains him into a formidable warrior. Equipped with lethal prosthesis, Hyakkimaru will have to hunt...
Planetes Omnibus, Volume 1
| Author | Makoto Yukimura |
| ISBN | 1616559217 |
Planetes is an excellent sci-fi slice of life manga about a group of space janitors living in space and doing their jobs, all the while dealing with life things like space sickness, loss of loved ones, existential questions and even space terrorism. It's funny, occasionally deeply philosophical,...
Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 4 - Fish, Sushi and Sashimi
| Author | Tetsu Kariya |
| ISBN | 1421521423 |
R to L (Japanese Style). Fish, Sushi and Sashimi Yamaoka and his father, Kaibara Y zan, have never enjoyed an ideal father-son relationship. In fact, it's about as far from ideal as possible, and when they start arguing about food--which they inevitably do--the sparks really fly. In this volume of
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