The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
10 best books like The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 (Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama): Kampung Boy, Gemma Bovery, Fifth Chinese Daughter, Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology, My Most Secret Desire, Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey, Citizen 13660, Desert Exile, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
| Author | LAT (Mohammad Nor Khalid) |
| ISBN | 1596431210 |
Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, religious study, and work on his family's rubber...
| Author | Posy Simmonds |
| ISBN | 0375423397 |
It a coincidence that Gemma Bovery has a name rather like Flaubert's notorious heroine? Is it by chance that, like Madame Bovary, Gemma is bored, adulterous, and a bad credit risk? Is she inevitably doomed?
Gemma is the pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children,...
| Author | Jade Snow Wong |
| ISBN | 0295968265 |
Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements. These memoirs of the author's first twenty-four years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining. They not only portray a young woman and her...
Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology
What if we told you a tale about a quiet, unassuming guy with black hair and thick glasses; an immigrant, who's done his best to fit into a world that isn't his? Many Asian Americans fit that bill. But so does Clark Kent, better known to the world as Superman.
The editors of Secret Identities Appealing...
| Author | Julie Doucet |
| ISBN | 1896597955 |
“One of the most promising of the younger graphic novelists.” —Charles McGrath, The New York Times Magazine
Considered by many to be the most influential female cartoonist ever, Julie Doucet created an iconic body of work in the ten short years she solely devoted herself to her trailblazing...
| Author | G.B. Tran |
| ISBN | 0345508726 |
A superb new graphic memoir in which an inspired artist/storyteller reveals the road that brought his family to where they are today: Vietnamerica
GB Tran is a young Vietnamese American artist who grew up distant from (and largely indifferent to) his family’s history. Born and raised...
| Author | Mine Okubo |
| ISBN | 0295993545 |
Mine Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into "protective custody" shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's illustrated memoir of life in relocation centers in California...
| Author | Yoshiko Uchida |
| ISBN | 0295961902 |
In the spring of 1942, shortly after the United States entered into war with Japan, the federal government initiated a policy whereby 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and herded into camps. They were incarcerated without indictment, trial, or counsel - not because they had committed...
| 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 | Brendan Burford |
| ISBN | 0345505298 |
The stories in Syncopated challenge convention, provide perspective, and search out secret truths–all in the inviting, accessible form of comics.
Syncopated will give you a daringly different view of the past–from the history of vintage postcards to the glory days of old Coney Island....
| Author | Gene Luen Yang |
| ISBN | 1593621833 |
Two stories of two very different young people who encounter the extraordinary while living their ordinary lives are collected in this omnibus of the early graphic novels by American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang.
In Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, a not-very-deep-thinking...
| Author | George A. Walker |
| ISBN | 1554072700 |
"If you care about graphic novels, you need this book."
- New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman
Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues...
| Author | Megan Kelso |
| ISBN | 1560977469 |
Kelso's work is characterized by subject matter that fits roughly into two disparate camps: personal and semi-autobiographical stories that draw heavily on the details of her childhood and adolescence, and stories about the idea of America and American history, such as a trilogy of short pieces...
| Author | Fred Chao |
| ISBN | 0765329379 |
Johnny Hiro, a hardworking busboy, lives in Brooklyn with his flighty but lovable girlfriend Mayumi. Every day, he struggles to make ends meet while fighting giant monsters, running over rooftops from crazed waiters, fending off businessmen-turned-samurai, or having the occasional conversation...
Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan
| Author | Chip Kidd |
| ISBN | 0375714847 |
The two hottest genres in comics gleefully collide head-on, as the most beloved American superhero gets the coolest Japanese manga makeover ever.
In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission...
Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics
| Author | Frederik L. Schodt |
| ISBN | 0870117521 |
Frederik L. Schodt received a 2017 Japan Foundation Award in 2017 for his work in bringing Osamu Tezuka and other manga artists to the world!
Since first published in 1983, Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics has been the book to read for all those interested in Japanese comics. It is virtually...
Mendel's Daughter: A Memoir
Sometimes your memories are not your own.Just as Art Spiegelman's "Maus" presented a dramatic new framework from which to view the Holocaust, "Mendel's Daughter" combines an unforgettable true story with elegant, haunting illustrations to shed new light on one of history's darkest periods. In...
| Author | Caroline Hwang |
| ISBN | 0452284880 |
In Caroline Hwang's debut novel, In Full Bloom, all Ginger Lee wants is a promotion at the fashion glossy A la Mode magazine. All her mother wants is a nice, professional Korean son-in-law. Unable to keep her mother at bay, Ginger reluctantly agrees to let her play matchmaker. At work, Ginger's efforts...
| Author | Lela Lee |
| ISBN | 0810958686 |
rating: 3/5
A humorous comic about five angry little girls. It was cute and funny but lacked a bit of a punch. Lee could have pushed it further. She plays up on various stereotypes and some of the strips were just ingenious but others fell a little flat.
I will definitely read more though;...
Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 6 - The Joy of Rice
A quest for the ultimate menu! R to L (Japanese Style). "The Joy of Rice" In this volume of Oishinbo, Yamaoka and company look into the single most essential food in Japanese cuisine: rice. Cultivated for millennia, a staple meal in itself and the basis of countless other dishes, rice is an important component...
| Author | Don Lee |
| ISBN | 0393062325 |
Lyndon Song, a renowned sculptor, has fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. Lyndon has a brother, Woody, an indicted financier turned movie producer, and Woody has a plan, involving a golf-course resort on Lyndon's land and an aging kung-fu...
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
| Author | Will Eisner |
| ISBN | 0393328600 |
The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms around the globe. Purported to be the actual blueprints by Jewish leaders to take over the world,...
Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties
| Author | Karen Ishizuka |
| ISBN | 1781688621 |
The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women’s liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of...
In the second installment of the TUNE series of graphic novels, our hapless hero Andy Go is settling into life in an alien zoo...as one of the exhibits. It's not so bad: the food is good, and his environment is a perfect copy of his house back on Earth. But everything falls to pieces when Andy realizes he's...
