DG Stewart 
The Arrival Lothian Books / Hodder Children’s Books, 2006 Writer: Shaun Tan Shaun Tan is an Australian comic book creator based in the same slightly obscure city as your reviewer, although we have never met or dealt with him in any capacity. Mr Tan however has a formidable reputation, although not within the traditional comic … Read more
SuperTokyoLand Top Shelf Productions, 2015 (English translation) Writer: Benjamin Reiss When bathing in that deepest of self-absorbed writing indulgence, the autobiography, there is a natural tendency for the unsophisticated towards apology, justification, or penitence. SuperTokyoLand is an autobiographical adventure of a French cartoonist’s extended stay in Japan, but has none of these things. As an … Read more
The Japan Times reports that the 15 February 2018 edition of a manga entitled KoroKoro Comic, published by Shogakukan Inc, has been withdrawn from sale. The move was sparked by protests by Mongolian citizens living in Japan, and by a formal complaint to the Japanese Government from the charge d’affaires at the Mongolian Embassy in … Read more
Sweet Guy – Chapters 1-74 Lezhin Comics, 2017-2018 Writers: Park Hyeong-Jun and Lee Won-Sik World Comic Book Review is a broad church. In the past we have reviewed comics as diverse as Disney’s ongoing Frozen comic book (based on the animated motion picture about two young princesses), the Kricfalusi-esque slapstick comic The World Hates Jimmy, … Read more