Aug 03, 2010
Top Shelf’s collection of AX, a Japanese magazine of alternative comics, features works from 33 artists over 10 years of the magazine's history including such manga luminaries as Yoshihiro Tatsumi. The collection offers a comprehensive selection of styles and themes available outside of mainstream manga. In this preview, Shinya Komatsu’s story “Mushroom Garden”, the protagonist’s obsession with mushrooms begins to take over his life; the first half of the story is excerpted here. The book is formatted to match the original Japanese edition, so it must be read from right to left. AX Vol. 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga will be released in August.
The Roundup for Comics
Publishing news from across the Web
Comics journalist Joe Sacco’s powerful history of a 1956 massacre in Palestine, Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan Books), a 2009 PW Best Book, was awarded the Oregon Book Awards’ biennial Graphic Literature Award.
Carla Speed McNeil’s Eisner award-winning epic science-fiction graphic novel, Finder: Voice, a PW Best Book, was awarded the 2012 L.A. Times Book Prize for Graphic Novels over the weekend at the L.A. Times Book Festival.
Anders Nilson’s massive and inventive graphic novel, Big Questions (D&Q), a PW Best Book, has been awarded the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, an annual prize for the “best graphic novel, fiction or nonfiction,” published in the previous calendar year.
Philly theater group Save the Day Productions’ Super Heroes Who Are Super!, is a word-for-word staged reading of superhero comic books that is both celebration and parody.
Josie Leavitt
It's true: I miss the pounds upon pounds of paper catalogs that I used to get every season. Yes, I hated the waste of them, especially when I'd get three sets of the same catalog. Recycling them was a...
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Today -- in the third installment of our Informal Audie Awards Poll -- we turn to one of the most prestigious prizes up for grabs at this years Audies: Distinguished Achievement in Production....
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