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