Drawing From Your Memory

Drawing From Your Memory by Shiki Kawabata combines the “kids learn to make manga” genre with an “I went back in time to save a classmate” story. We first meet Mahoro after she’s had huge success. Her manga series spawned an anime, a movie, and a TV show. She’s being asked to come up with another series, which leads to her confession — her popular series was based on ideas and character designs from someone else who died ten years [...]
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You Might As Well Be the One

You Might As Well Be the One by Megumu Seto tells a classic romance storyline well. Ichika’s in college and looking for a boyfriend. She wants a serious relationship, with someone she can talk with, someone who sees the real her. She meets someone at a meetup that she thinks is a nice guy… but Kosei soon tells her he only goes out with girls casually. Their friendship continues to develop, but she realizes she has feelings for him. The [...]
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The Pass by Katriona Chapman

The pass, in restaurant terms, is where dishes wait to go out together, where a final inspection is done or a garnish or finishing touch added. It often separates the kitchen and workers from the dining room and the rest of the world. The Pass by Katriona Chapman is an affecting graphic novel about a young chef finding herself. I was immediately and pleasantly struck by the borderless, full-color pages, softly illustrated, with panels inset against background images. (You can [...]
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Alice Guy: First Lady of Film

This chunky biography by José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller (translated by Edward Gauvin) from SelfMadeHero tells the life of Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker. At the end of the 1800s, she was writing, directing, and producing movies. She had her own production company in the US in 1912! And yet few have ever heard of her. Alice Guy: First Lady of Film covers from 1873 to 1968, the full span of her life, in an immensely welcoming, readable style. [...]
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Rea Irvin’s The Smythes

Rea Irvin’s The Smythes is a prestige hardcover from New York Review Comics reprinting a Sunday comic from the 1930s. Although I didn’t finish all the reprinted comic strips, which were much of a similarity, I found the historical information surrounding them fascinating. Rea Irvin is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the snob with the butterfly who was on the first cover of The New Yorker and has become the mascot of the magazine. Irvin’s art style, appeal, and [...]
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Green Manor

Sherlockians make the best recommendations. I saw this mentioned in a fan group and as soon as I heard the concept, I knew I’d enjoy it. Green Manor is a translated French comic, published by Cinebook Espresso, about an English club in the late 1800s where men gather to talk over vengeance and murder, or even to commit same. It’s complete in two volumes, Assassins and Gentleman and The Inconvenience of Being Dead. (The second volume is almost twice the [...]
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Mini Mysteries Series Continues With Nancy Drew

I’ve talked before about the Mini Mysteries series of kids’ picture books — the first two featured Hercule Poirot, The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Mystery of the Blue Train. Now comes the third, with a new detective. It’s The Secret of the Old Clock: A Nancy Drew Detective Story, written by Marci Kay Monson (who also wrote the previous two) and illustrated by Ryan Wheatcroft. It’s been a long time since I’ve read Nancy Drew, but Wikipedia tells [...]
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Role Playing

The nice thing about the explosion in modern romance titles, particularly with those demonstrating more diversity and geek acceptance, is that you can find a book that makes you squeal “it’s for MEEEEEEE.” Such as Role Playing by Cathy Yardley. Maggie is a newly empty nester, divorced, and generally grumpy, with some social anxiety. She works from home, and she games online. Her two best friends are someone she went to school with that she talks to every couple of [...]
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