Shungiku Uchida

Jul 16, 2024 | bifuteki.com | Shungiku Uchida |Ai Yazawa |Susumu Higa |John Neal

Anime NYC and Japan Society announced today the 30 nominees for the inaugural American Manga Awards, set to take place on August 22, 2024, at the historic Japan Society in New York City. This event will precede this year’s Anime NYC convention, the largest Japanese pop culture event on the East Coast, which expects to draw over 100,000 fans of anime and manga from all over the world to the Jacob K. Javits Center in midtown Manhattan from August 23 – 25, 2024.

May 12, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Mattie Lubchansky |Rina Ayuyang |Peter Rostovsky |Shungiku Uchida

Peter Dunlap-Shohl. Graphic Mundi, $19.95 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-63779-047-2Dunlap-Shohl (My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s) delivers an unsettling if bemused account of Alaska’s precarious place in the nuclear arms race. Siren towers studded the Anchorage skyline during the author’s childhood in the 1950s and ’60s, reminders of the hazards of U.S.-Soviet tensions.

Apr 24, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Rina Ayuyang |Peter Rostovsky |Shungiku Uchida |Benji Nate

Ype Driessen, trans. from the Dutch by Lenny Kouwenberg. Street Noise, $21.99 trade paper (224) ISBN ​​978-1-951491-23-9Dutch cartoonist Driessen makes his English-language debut with a witty fotonovela memoir sprinkled with flights of fancy.

Apr 13, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Shungiku Uchida |Benji Nate |Darrin Bell |Arnold Arre

Chuck D. Enemy, $39.95 trade paper (720p) ISBN 978-1-63614-100-8With audacious style, Chuck D—activist and cofounder of Public Enemy—chronicles his personal life and American history as it unfolded during 2020 and early 2022 in this set of three thought-provoking illustrated diary volumes. Each drawn and hand-lettered scene presents a topic underscored by pithy and pertinent criticism.

Apr 13, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Peter Rostovsky |Shungiku Uchida |Benji Nate |Darrin Bell

Peter Rostovsky. Uncivilized, $24.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-941250-54-9In fine-arts painter Rostovsky’s scabrously funny debut, an ordinary guy visits an ordinary therapist in an extraordinary place: Hell.