I’m sure I’m being too sensitive about this, but this was annoying:<\/p>\n
“Hm, front page story in the NYT Arts section\u2026hipster manga just got a lot more hip in New York. This is definitely the art manga equivalent of the cover story on art comics from the NYT Magazine that kicked off the whole \u201ccomics are an art form\u201d thing a few years ago.” – Heidi MacDonald, The Beat<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That’s Heidi talking about Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s A Drifting Life<\/em>\u00a0coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seriously, if any hipster-douche can make it through an 850 page autobiography of a manga pioneer set in post-war Japan, I’ll stop automatically adding the word “douche” after the word “hipster”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Really? Hipster manga? I actually can’t think of a more dismissive term than that. Anything outright critical could at least be argued, that’s just… yeah. Whatever<\/em>.<\/p>\n
Props to Peggy and D&Q for the amazing coverage though.<\/p>\n
– Chris
\nP.S.: I am clearly biased because I’m hosting Tatsumi and D&Q in Toronto in 3 weeks, so feel free to ignore, but again, I’d like to stress:\u00a0what-ever<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m sure I’m being too sensitive about this, but this was annoying: “Hm, front page story in the NYT Arts section\u2026hipster manga just got a lot more hip in New York. This is definitely the art manga equivalent of the cover story on art comics from the NYT Magazine that kicked off the whole \u201ccomics … <\/p>\n