“Hoshizora ni uta e ba” by Masai Akiyosha
A 1950s shojo manga I bought online from a Japanese auction site, a relic of the era of kashihon, inexpensive rental libraries through which many manga books we...
Category: Comics: A Global History
Comics Workbook Magazine: article on Chantal Montellier
I recently wrote an article about French cartoonist Chantal Montellier, for Comics Workbook Magazine #10, edited by Whit Taylor. Comics Workbook is probably the...
Comics: a Global History, new reviews
Two new reviews of the book have appeared this week: one by Pascal Lefevre in the online journal Image and Narrative, and one in theaustralian.com by Cefn Ridou...
La revue dessinée #05
La revue dessinée is a quarterly French journal of comics “investigations, reportage and documentaries” (enquêtes, reportages et documentaires); in other words,...
Interview by Pedro Moura
Portugese comics scholar Pedro Moura did an interview with me and Alexander Danner about Comics: a Global History, for the Comics Alternative website. Pedro wr...
Comics: A Global History, reviewed
The book is reviewed on The Comics Bulletin website: “in Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present, [Mazur and Danner] do an admirable job with a near...
Comics Global History: Nakazawa Shigeo, Shōjo Club 1956
I continue my sporadic exploration of old shoujo manga through obscure (to me, anyway) books obtained through Yahoo Japan auctions. I got my hands on this Shōj...
Comics, a Global History: Pilote, the Early Years
Coming in June from publisher Thames and Hudson, “Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present,” written by Alexander Danner and me. Here are so...
Comics, a Global History: Hara Kiri, the Stupid, Nasty Journal.
Though not exclusively a comics magazine, the French satirical journal Hara Kiri was very important in the movement toward a bande dessinée adulte that gathere...
Comics, a Global History: “Fumetti neri”
Magnus (Roberto Raviola) (art) Max Bunker (writing) Satanik #38 • 1966 In Italy a new genre of dark, violent and erotic comics in the crime genre, called fumett...
