The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul

Last week as I began reading Buddha V1, Kapilavastu, I noted down “Osamu Tezuka, where have you been all my life?” and I meant it. There’s a lot of comparison of Tezuka to Will Eisner but there are many instances in Buddha where Tezuka’s artwork recalls the animation of Walt Disney and [...]

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The Daily Herald this morning ran an article (syndicated I thing from The Wall Street Journal) about how DC and the Minx line is reaching out to women that read manga and trying to get them to read home grown and made comic books. The article was innocent enough until it got to this [...]

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Due to a lot of other stuff, the Wednesday’s Haul podcast is taking a break this week but will return with a look at some mini and small press comics next week.

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A staple of American comics is the autobiographical comic. As long as you can draw, you always can tell the story of your own life.
Reading the latest volume of Yotsuba&!, one panel struck me as very Eddie Campbell-like, particularly from his Alec volumes. Which made me wonder, is there any autobiographical manga out [...]

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Love is not something that you should have to teach someone. Neither is empathy. Sadly there are probably people who have neither like Shogo Chikaishi in Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo’s Song. Spurned by his own unloving mother, Shogo is repulsed by love to the point where he kills animals that even [...]

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Richard is a disgraced cop who supposedly shot and killed a man while he was drunk. After the killing, Richard was understandably fired and his wife divorced him, taking their daughter with her. But he’s trying to turn his life around. With the help of Dr. Gillen, his therapist, he’s put the [...]

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