Hot on the heels of last episode’s celebration of American Comics, this time we’re paying tribute to the wonderful world of comics from Japan, otherwise known as Manga!

I’m joined by one of my favorite roundtables of cartoonists:

Brandon Dayton is the cartoonist behind the comic Green Monk and contributor to the Feature Creeps process blog.

Kasey Van Hise is the creator of Winters In Lavelle, who may or may not be doing a comic soon called Fat Unicorn.

Dave Roman is the creator of Astronaut Academy, soon to come out from First Second Publishing.

We sit down for a discussion on some of the common misconceptions by American audiences in regards to Manga, followed by some of the lessons we’ve learned through letting some of our favorite Manga influence our works.

Links and artists mentioned in this episode:

* Shaenon K. Garrity’s blog post, Ten Things to Know About the Future of Comics

* Osamu Tezuka

* Hayao Miyazaki

* Katsuhiro Otomo

* Pokémon

* Trigun

* Cowboy Bebop

* GoGo Monster

* Rumiko Takahashi

* Amy Kim Ganter

* Becky Cloonan

* One Piece

* Digimon

* Transformers: Robots In Disguise

* Taiyo Matsumoto

* Natsume Ono

* Ristorante Paradiso

* House of Five Leaves

* Keiko Takemiya

* Cowa, by Akira Toriyama

Some of the books mentioned in this episode:

Other links mentioned at the end of the episode: