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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.
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Nov 11, 2023 | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Susumu Higa |Ilyon Woo |Ibi Zoboi
When I heard the recent news of the passing of former longtime college basketball coach Bob Knight, my first thought was about a book. That book is “A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers” by John Feinstein.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
thestarnewstoday.com | Susumu Higa |Ilyon Woo |Ibi Zoboi |Andy Weir
When I heard the recent news of the passing of former longtime college basketball coach Bob Knight, my first thought was about a book. That book is “A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers” by John Feinstein.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Patrick McDonnell |Daniel Clowes |Susumu Higa |Brian Michael Bendis
Edel Rodriguez. Metropolitan, $29.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-75397-7In depicting both Cuba and the United States at their best and worst, Time cover artist Rodriguez’s debut graphic memoir is a stunningly rendered elegy for the dreams of revolutionaries, immigrants, and parents. The story begins with Rodriguez’s birth in 1971 in a small town south of Havana.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Patrick McDonnell |Daniel Clowes |Susumu Higa
Patrick McDonnell and Marvel Entertainment. Abrams ComicArts, $29.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6910-8Syndicated cartoonist McDonnell (Mutts) celebrates in this joyous and invigorating blend of memoir and homage the Marvel Comics superhero saga, whose adventures have interconnected over the past 80+ years and formed a single, expansive fictional history.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Dave Chisholm |Susumu Higa |Brian Michael Bendis |Luca Debus
Miles Davis and the Search for the SoundThis fierce and focused graphic biography of jazz legend Miles Davis (1926–1991) matches the spirit of its subject. Chisholm (Chasin’ the Bird—Charlie Parker in California) employs a conventional framing—after his 1982 stroke, Davis starts sketching to coax his stricken hand into functioning—to tell the story of the artist’s quest for musical perfection.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Haruki Murakami |Susumu Higa |Brian Michael Bendis |Luca Debus
Haruki Murakami, Jean-Christophe Deveney, and PMGL, trans. from the Japanese by Cathy Layne. Tuttle, $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-4-8053-1764-8In this adept international collaboration, a French comics team transforms four fantasy-tinted short stories by Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) into comics, bringing his vertiginous imagination to life.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Rob Sanders |Jonathan Hillman |Susumu Higa |Brian Michael Bendis
Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings. Surely, $24.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4372-6DC writer Trujillo (the Blue Beetle series) and newcomer cartoonist Hastings (Be Gay, Do Comics) interlace a provocative graphic biography of 18th-century military strategist Baron von Steuben with poignant calls to embrace hidden queer history. After lying about his age to enlist in the Prussian army at 14, von Steuben embarks on a career of social climbing aided by further embellishments.
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May 15, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | Susumu Higa
Illus. by the author.
July 2023. 544p. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (9781683961185). 741.5.
REVIEW.
First published May 15, 2023 (Booklist).
An omnibus of two collections by Higa, this is a meditation on a prefecture in Japan that is often overlooked and the impact of WWII on its people and the land itself. In this reflective, contemplative, and intellectual manga, Higa delves into the tensions of America’s occupation of Okinawa and the complex history of the prefecture.
