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AX : alternative manga
Title
AX : alternative manga / edited by Sean Michael Wilson ; compiled by Mitsuhiro Asakawa.
ISBN
9781603090421 (v. 1 : pbk.)
1603090428 (v. 1 : pbk.)
Published
Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2010-
Physical Description
v. : chiefly ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Translated from the Japanese.
Summary
"Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics, heir to the legendary Garo. Published bi-monthly since 1998, the pages of Ax contain the most innovative, experimental, and personal works in contemporary manga, the flourishing underground of the world's largest comics industry. Now Top Shelf presents a 400-page collection of stories from ten years of Ax history, translated into English for the first time"--P. [4] of cover.
Variant and related titles
Alternative manga
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 27, 2012
Contents
Introduction / by Paul Gravett
The watcher / Osamu Kanno
Love's bride / Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Conch of the sky / Imiri Sakabashira
Rooftop elegy / Takao Kawasaki
Inside the gourd / Ayuko Akiyama
Me / Shigehiro Okada
Push pin woman / Katsuo Kawai
A broken soul / Nishioka Brosis
Into darkness / Takato Yamamoto
Enrique Kobayashi's Eldorado / Toranosuke Shimada
The neighbor / Yuka Goto
300 years / Mimiyo Tomozawa
Black sushi party piece / Takashi Nemoto
Puppy love / Yusaku Hanakuma
The brilliant ones / Namie Fujieda
The hare and the tortoise / Mitsuhiko Yoshida
The twin adults (two stories) / Kotobuki Shiriagari
Haiku manga (2 stories) / Shinbo Minami
Mushroom garden / Shinya Komatsu
Home drama: the Sugawara family / Einosuke
A well-dressed corpse / Yuichi Kiriyama
Arizona sizzler / Saito Yunosuke
The rainy day blouse & the first umbrella / Akino Kondo
Stand by me / Tomohiro Koizumi
My old man & me / Shin'ichi Abe
Up and over / Seiko Erisawa
The song of Mr. H. / Shigeyuki Fukumitsu
Kataoka Toyo Pathos Theater (2 stories) / Kataoka Toyo
Kosuke Okada and his 50 sons / Hideyasu Moto
Les Raskolnikov / Keizo Miyanishi
Alraune fatale / Hiroji Tani
Sacred light / Otoya Mitsuhashi
Six paths of wealth / Kazuichi Hanawa
Biographies / compiled by Ryan Holmberg.
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Graphic novels.
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