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MW: Tezuka’s darkest work

Print This Post May 18, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

MW was published in Big Comic from 1976 to 1978. This was a few years after Tezuka’s own comics magazine, COM, folded in 1972. Serialisation began right after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. MW—the titular chemical—is a fictional counterpart of dioxin. Dioxin or Agent Orange was used by the US to launch a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Manga, MW, Osamu Tezuka

Blue is the Warmest Color: a study of teenage confusions

Print This Post April 23, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Blue Is the Warmest Color is the first full length graphic novel by Julie Maroh. It was originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude. A character composed of letters and diary entries Julie Maroh constructs the story from letters and diaries left by the protagonist—Clementine—after her death. The recipient is Emma—Clementine’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Bande Dessinée, Julie Maroh

Commentary on Palestine by Joe Sacco

Print This Post March 19, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Things to know before reading While it is possible to enjoy the book without having any background of the Israel–Palestine conflict—just the way I had read through the book when I bought my copy years ago—the understanding of this piece of work gets elevated once the reader is exposed to the context in which the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Israel, Joe Sacco, palestine

Hergé’s great deception in The Castafiore Emerald

Print This Post February 26, 2018 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

If there is one word that describes The Castafiore Emerald, it has to be deception. This is one Tintin album that is not like any of the other Tintin albums. There is no villain, no adventure, no travel, no action, or anything else that can be remotely associated with the hallmarks of a typical Tintin album. This … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Bande Dessinée, Hergé, The Castafiore Emerald, Tintin

A coming of age story in Solanin

Print This Post September 15, 2016 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

I kept bumping into Solanin in many automated suggestion lists—they seemed to predict what I might like, based on my tastes. A few months ago, I decided to trust these suggestion algorithms and pick the book up. In my opinion, it is a coming of age story of the protagonist, Meiko Inoue. Somebody who has read … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Inio Asano, Manga, Solanin, Viz

Youwamushi Pedal Volume 1: How Onoda joined Sohoku Bicycle Racing Club

Print This Post August 18, 2016 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

A few days ago, I received my copies of Yowamushi Pedal Volumes 1 and 2 in English. I have already seen the anime and have read scanlations of the manga. It was one of the bicycling mangas that I wanted to see translated in English. I was happy to see Yen Press doing the translations. I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Manga, Wataru Watanabe, Yowamushi Pedal, Yowapeda

Searching for Tintin in Vietnam

Print This Post July 12, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas 1 Comment

Recently, I travelled through Vietnam. While I was in Hue, the cultural capital of Vietnam, a weird thought raced through my mind, “Can I get Tintin in Vietnamese?” Before coming to Hue, I was in Ha Noi and stayed in the Old Quarters. I explored the entire place on foot but did not come across … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Detective Conan, Doraemon, Dragon Ball, Hergé, Manga, The Broken Ear, Tintin, Vietnam, Vietnamese

Review of Batman Black and White: Volume 1

Print This Post May 6, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

About the collection “The title is simple. The talent is spectacular.” – that’s what the blurb on the volume’s back cover says. Someone couldn’t have come up with a more apt description of the book. Batman Black & White (now retrofitted with a ‘Volume 1’ tag along its spine) is an anthology. It contains many … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Anthology, Batman, Black & White, DC Comics

Reading through Jeff Smith’s Bone: Volumes 1 & 2

Print This Post April 25, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Bone promises to be an epic fantasy comic in the veins of Lord of the Rings. So does the blurb say. Whether the comparison holds or not, I can only justify when I have gone through all the nine volumes. I will be commenting on the first two volumes in this post. The rest shall … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Bone, Cartoon Books, Graphix, Jeff Smith, Scholastic

Land of Black Gold: A Tintin book that was not meant to be

Print This Post April 12, 2015 by Sauvik Biswas 1 Comment

A sketchy album Of all the albums of Tintin, Land of Black Gold remains the sketchiest book in my opinion. When I was a kid, I read this in Bengali and never got my head around many things that were happening in the story. I enjoyed the parts where the Thompsons were lost in the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Comics Tagged: Bande Dessinée, Casterman, Egmont, Hergé, Land of Black Gold, Tintin
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