Read a manga, a Japanese comic or graphic novel, to explore its unique storytelling and art style.
Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.
Major Kusanagi and Section 9 in Shirow's dense cyberpunk pages, with footnotes.
The same idea drawn rather than written - panels connected by tubes and arrows that send you across the page or back three pages. Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile is the one everybody means.
A chimpanzee who wants to be human and two scouts, from 1957; the longest-running Polish comic.
A town cursed by spirals; Junji Ito's horror masterpiece.
A boy with a chainsaw devil for a heart hunts devils for the government; Fujimoto's chaos.
Tezuka's eight-volume life of Siddhartha, funny and profound.
Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.
Humanity behind walls against titans; Isayama's manga ended in 2021 and the ending is still argued.
Marv hunts the men who killed Goldie; Miller's black-and-white noir.
Every male mammal dies except Yorick and his monkey; sixty issues of what comes next.
John Difool, a class-R detective, and a crystal that can save the universe; Moebius and Jodorowsky.
A village of indomitable Gauls, a magic potion and Romans to thump; the first of thirty-nine.
Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.
An outcast ninja with a fox demon inside him wants to lead his village; seventy-two volumes.
Tintin searches the Himalayas for Chang after a plane crash; Herge's own favourite, without a villain.
Miyamoto Musashi's road to becoming the greatest swordsman; Inoue's ink brush.
Tintin in 1930s Shanghai against opium smugglers and the Japanese occupation; the album where Herge did his research.
Rick Grimes wakes in a hospital to the zombie apocalypse; 193 issues in black and white.
A six-year-old and his tiger, ten years of strips and Spaceman Spiff.
Two soldiers from warring planets raise their daughter on the run; Vaughan and Staples.
Three cousins lost in a valley of dragons and rat creatures; a Disney-drawn Lord of the Rings.
Two boys at an English grammar school fall in love; the webcomic that became a Netflix series.
Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.
A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.
A Toronto slacker must defeat seven evil exes; O Malley's manga-styled indie epic.
A delinquent joins the basketball team to impress a girl; the sports manga that made Japan play.
A Viking raised by Northmen, born of the stars; Rosinski's Polish-Belgian saga since 1977.
A sailor adrift in the Pacific on the eve of 1914; Hugo Pratt's literary adventurer.
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