Featured Books

Manga:
60 Years Of
Japanese Comics
by Paul Gravett
& Peter Stanbury

Which Manga will you read next? Here are a dozen top recommendations:

Buddha
by Tezuka
(Vertical)
Life-changing enlightenment

Barefoot Gen
by Nakazawa
(Last Gasp)
Surviving Hiroshima

Lone Wolf and Cub
by Goseki & Kojima
(Dark Horse)
Samurai epic

Domu
by Otomo
(Dark Horse)
High-rise superpowers

Nausicaä
by Miyazak
(Viz)
Ecological fantasy

The Walking Man
by Taniguchi
(Ponent Mon)
Awakening to nature

Happy Mania
by Moyocco Anno
(TokyoPop)
Sex-crazy ‘chick-lit’

Gon
by Tanaka
(DC/Paradox)
The toughest baby dinosaur

Uzumaki
by Ito
(Viz)
Spiralling horrors

Club 9
by Kobayashi
(Dark Horse)
Antics of a bar hostess

GTO
by Fujisama
(TokyoPop)
Punk schoolteacher rules

Eagle
by Kawaguchi
(Viz)
‘West Wing’-style political thriller