Posts Tagged ‘manga’

January 1, 2009 0

So you want to be a rock and roll star– a review of Inio Asano’s solanin

By Scott Cederlund in Review, manga

There’s a saying that goes something like “life is what happens to you while you’re waiting for something to happen.”  For a lot of us, that could probably also describe that time right after college when you’re supposed to be an adult with a job and all of that but you don’t want to let [...]

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December 28, 2008 0

The weekend reading

By Scott Cederlund in comics, manga

I’ve been in Michigan since Christmas morning and have spent most of my free time reading a bunch of manga. Right now, I’m more excited about these books than almost anything being published by an American publisher right now. Solanin would probably even knock something off of my 2008 Best Of list. If I had [...]

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October 30, 2008 1

Politics in Manga– a look at EAGLE THE MAKING OF AN ASIAN AMERICAN PRESIDENT

By Scott Cederlund in comics, podcasts- WH

I’m back finally with a new episode and, as part of this month’s Comics Podcast Theme of Politics in Comics, I’m talking about Kaiji Kawaguchi’s excellent manga series EAGLE: THE MAKING OF AN ASIAN-AMERICAN PRESIDENT, a fictitious account of the 2000 Presidential race.  But while it’s looking at a past race, it shares much in [...]

 

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