Comments on: Mature Manga: I missed this as I was in Japan http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/ Never Safe For Work Mon, 14 May 2012 23:56:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: dave roman http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-14397 dave roman Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:40:45 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/#comment-14397 I really enjoyed the movie. Really curious to check out the manga now. I really enjoyed the movie. Really curious to check out the manga now.

]]> By: Halliday http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-12797 Halliday Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:28:35 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/#comment-12797 DVD is out this week. Can't wait to see what it's like. DVD is out this week. Can’t wait to see what it’s like.

]]> By: Huff http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-12795 Huff Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:59:58 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/#comment-12795 I was actually waiting all week for this response. His response to this post does have some points, but like Brian I think his take on Tekkon is off. As it happens the rest of the internet seems to have fallen in love with it, so as long as it sells fairly well I'm cool (kind of disappointing they didn't whip out Fraction's "flipped my fucking shit" line for the promotions though). I was actually waiting all week for this response. His response to this post does have some points, but like Brian I think his take on Tekkon is off. As it happens the rest of the internet seems to have fallen in love with it, so as long as it sells fairly well I’m cool (kind of disappointing they didn’t whip out Fraction’s “flipped my fucking shit” line for the promotions though).

]]> By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » New week, new manga http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-12651 MangaBlog » Blog Archive » New week, new manga Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:18:47 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/#comment-12651 [...] Back from Japan, Christopher Butcher fires another volley in his debate with Dirk Deppey over which books to recommend to a reader looking for mature manga: obscure and arty or relatively accessible? Dirk responds (scroll down to the “Manga” heading). [...] [...] Back from Japan, Christopher Butcher fires another volley in his debate with Dirk Deppey over which books to recommend to a reader looking for mature manga: obscure and arty or relatively accessible? Dirk responds (scroll down to the “Manga” heading). [...]

]]> By: Brian Nicholson http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-12619 Brian Nicholson Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:15:28 +0000 http://comics212.net/2007/09/23/mature-manga-i-missed-this-as-i-was-in-japan/#comment-12619 To be fair to Dirk- His position at The Comics Journal would lead him to recommend work based on a perceived critical worth, rather than from a selling comics position, or even a position of activism. I do think he maybe fails as a critic in his evaluation of Tekkon Kinkreet, which I just read the other night and thought was amazing. I speak as someone who reads very little manga. For me, it's comparable to American stuff like Gary Panter's Jimbo Adventures In Paradise and Brian Chippendale's Ninja. (I picked up a copy of and older printing of Black And White before I was familiar with that stuff, and was expecting something more like Paul Pope, and so was flummoxed.) Which is not necessarily the type of stuff I'd expect a Guardian blogger to talk up, and so I can imagine not recommending, but that I would expect a Comics Journal staffer to be sensitive to. It is weird that Tatsumi wasn't recommended though. To be fair to Dirk- His position at The Comics Journal would lead him to recommend work based on a perceived critical worth, rather than from a selling comics position, or even a position of activism.

I do think he maybe fails as a critic in his evaluation of Tekkon Kinkreet, which I just read the other night and thought was amazing. I speak as someone who reads very little manga. For me, it’s comparable to American stuff like Gary Panter’s Jimbo Adventures In Paradise and Brian Chippendale’s Ninja. (I picked up a copy of and older printing of Black And White before I was familiar with that stuff, and was expecting something more like Paul Pope, and so was flummoxed.) Which is not necessarily the type of stuff I’d expect a Guardian blogger to talk up, and so I can imagine not recommending, but that I would expect a Comics Journal staffer to be sensitive to.

It is weird that Tatsumi wasn’t recommended though.

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