This week our guest is AnimeChicago organizer and manga connoisseur Neil Clingerman! Melissa and Neil hash out their manga filled childhoods, Melissa gets several facts wrong, and then we all talk about Osamu Tezuka a lot.

 
Stuff we talk about:

Smart Stuff with Roman Mars and Justin McElroy (99%PI #225, starts around 15:30)

Otherworld Barbara by Moto Hagio

Serial Experiments Lain

Drawn and Quarterly

Fantagraphics 

Vertical 

Sexy Voice and Robo by Iou Kuroda

Bambi and her Pink Gun by Atsushi Kaneko (who is not Iou Kuroda, whoops -M)

National Quiz by Sugimoto Reiichi and Katou Shinkichi

Edo Karuta by Arare Ame

Nasu by Iou Kuroda

Blue by Kiriko Nananan

The Death of Superman

Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro

Nausicaä The Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki

A Bride's Story and Emma by Kaoru Mori

I would have sworn there was a Urasawa Naoki no Manben episode with Kaoru Mori, but I was wrong. You should watch the show, though! -M

Cosplayers by Dash Shaw

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Nagata Kabi

Looking for Group by Ryan Sohmer

The Oven by Sophie Goldstein

MW by Osamu Tezuka

Book of Human Insects by Osamu Tezuka

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Phoenix by Osamu Tezuka

Bringing Up Father by George McManus

Lost at Sea and Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O'Malley

Tezuka in English

Find Neil online at:

twitter.com/neilworms

https://animechicago.com/

 

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twitter.com/widewildblue (Melissa)

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twitter.com/AndrewDLarkin (Andrew) 

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