Eric Fleenor

Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 by Andrea Horbinski In this expansive debut history, Horbinski, a submissions editor for Mechademia, upends conventional Western narratives about ma...

The first review for MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY is in! Publishers Weekly says "it's a vivid ode to the variety and depth of an enduringly popular art form."

www.publishersweekly.com/9780520403994

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

Why would the White House be upset by this ad? This is literally happening. We're so far past saying the quiet parts out loud, pure undisguised cruelty is such a core component of their messaging, frankly if someone told me this was actually put out by MAGA I wouldn't have any trouble believing it

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

I paused the video to read the blurbs on the back cover and the one from Rachel Thorn has me dying over here. Can't wait to read this

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry while reading this, but this satirical piece is just *chef kiss*
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

a cartoon drawing of a robot with a purple and green head standing in a foggy forest Alt: Animated gif of the 400% berserk Evangelion Unit 1 looking up after it finishes devouring Zeruel’s S2 organ.

Happy Mother’s Day!

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Pictures Companion | Official Trailer

Here is a thread of some horror movies hitting in 2025 that I am currently looking forward to. If you say "why did no one tell me about [x]?" I will point to this thread. This is me telling you.

Companion drops this week. Sci-fi horror black comedy about a sexbot that gains sentience

Order confirmation screen for Eike Exner's Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics 8/4/25 & Andrea Horbinski's Manga's First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989 10/25/25

Here's hoping that the world as we know it is still around later this year, I cannot express how excited I am for these two upcoming books on manga history

Pencil sketch of the Studio Ghibli character, Porco Rosso with a modified quote from the movie "Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!"

Better a pig than a gen A.I. user!

Two children at school in uniforms and it looks like Japan, both of them look like girls or femmes. One is holding a giant tuba so that it's stuffed over the face of the other one that's pinned up against the wall. The one holding the tuba is labeled every company. The tuba is labeled unwanted AI And the one against the wall is labeled me

Moto Hagio’s THEY WERE 11!, includes the never before in English sequel, double sided half-fold poster, full color character art and all the magenta-toned pages from the JP special edition.

Happy to say THEY WERE 11! is safely in our warehouse and is set to start shipping today.

Will likely only get one printing of this (two max given how costs are these days), so get ‘em while they’re hot.

Been waiting a long time for this, current release date puts this two weeks out, hope it sticks this time 🤞

Deep blue book cover, with a circle of brightness highlighting a classic manga baseball pitcher in mid-pitch.

Today on Okazu - Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics

@eikeexner.com's new book on the history of Japanese manga confronts the presumed history of manga, with new evidence of global influence that has now become a dialogue between manga and comics worldwide.

okazu.yuricon.com/2025/04/06/m...

YouTube video by Chris Hill - hillsy Manga documentary 1982

Finally digitized and uploaded a doc about manga I recorded off of PBS in the 80s.

youtu.be/__PRZA8KjS4?...

No much to see here at the moment. Starting to add a few manga and comics people I use to follow on the other site