Manga wizard Shintaro Kago provided the copy for the latest issue of Vice Magazine. I can totally relate to this drawing. Sometimes, my head fills up so much with useless junk, that it seems to explode. Only, my eyes don’t turn all polkadot-y.
(art © Shintaro Kago)
With their Exo-Force line of products, Lego aims at cashing in on global mangamania, and on the conviction that children these days will eat anything as long as it involves giant robots, evil empires and heroes named Takeshi. And so the building instructions of these mecha-clone kits are conceived as manga books, with Japanese lettering on the cover and a comic insert.
Wired presents a thorough though concise insight in how Manga Conquered the U.S. in PDF format (with art by Atsuhisa Okura). Nothing new, but a good intro nonetheless. And it’s in comic format, which makes it even more interesting.
(via Boing Boing)
