Nerds need to learn how to spell. L33T-speak is the single most annoying mode of discourse in human history, narrowly beating out the otaku patois created when American anime fans pepper their conversation with broken Japanese. While reviewing L33T Pixelz, I am afraid to speak the title aloud, for fear that the sheer irritating geekiness will cause jocks to spontaneously generate out of thin air and beat the crap out of me. Continue Reading
It’s official: webcomics are better than print comics.
Here’s the deal. I work for a manga publisher, Viz LLC, purveyors of such titles as Phoenix, Inu-Yasha, Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, and Shonen Jump. I’m surrounded by manga and the attendant detritus of Japanese pop culture for eight hours a day, five days a week.
I like it. A lot.
And yet I don’t like most manga-style American comics.
On this side of the Pacific, manga-style seems to mean one of two things:
Derek Kirk Kim, the creative force behind Small Stories Online, has his first print comic collection coming out next month – Same Difference and Other Stories, collecting all the episodes of "Same Difference" from the site (with a new font) and some other work. Continue Reading
Jason Shiga, whose comic strip “Fleep” is serialized on Modern Tales, is the first cartoonist featured in the Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco’s new “Small Press Spotlight.” Continue Reading
I draw a comic strip about mad geniuses. You know, evil-scientist types, with the insane laughter and the bubbling vats of unwholesome chemicals and the tampering in God’s domain. One of the themes I try to get across, and probably don’t most of the time, is the idea that genius isn’t just a matter of brains. Genius, the real rare deal, is all about seeing the world in a way no one’s ever seen it before.
Jason Shiga’s a mad genius. A real one.
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