Essays

The Weight of Postwar Life: Tsuge Tadao vs. Takano Shinzo, 1969

Seiichi Hayashi’s Nouvelle Vague

Shambhavi Kaul’s Haunted Nursery

Fukushima From Within: Tatsuta Kazuto’s Ichi-F

Eye Drum: Yokoyama Yūichi and Audiovisual Abstraction

Hayashi Seiichi’s Pop

Nuclear Literati: Nakashima Kiyoshi’s Furusato Goes to Hell

Atomic Modernism: Indian Abstraction at TIFR, Mumbai

Art in America (March 2016)

Pro-Nuclear Manga: The Seventies and Eighties

When Manga was Pop

Art in America (January 2016)

Singing Our Own Song: Hayashi Seiichi vs. Sasaki Maki, 1969

A Vogue for I Don’t Get It: Hayashi Seiichi vs. Sasaki Maki, 1967-69

Nuclear Gypsies: Art, Manga, and Nuclear Plant Labor

Art in America (December 2015)

After Aparanta: Goan Art and Landscape in the Age of Development

Blood Plants: Mizuki Shigeru, Kitaro, and the Japanese Blood Industry

Portrait of the Artist as a Working Man

Haraguchi Noriyuki’s Model Parts

Tatsumi Yoshihiro, 1935-2015

Dharavi Comics Epidemic: An Interview with Chaitanya Modak

The Fukui Ei’ichi Incident and the Prehistory of Komaga-Gekiga

Proto-Gekiga: Matsumoto Masahiko’s Komaga

Manga vs. Art History: Hayashi Seiichi at SISJAC

Enka Gekiga: Hayashi Seiichi’s Pop Music Manga

Heirs of Gottfredson: Osamu Tezuka

Shinohara Ushio’s Action Cartooning

Seduction of the Innocent, Hiroshima 1950: Occupation and Comics

The Eye and the Storm: Speed Lines and Gekiga FX

Bengal’s Drighangchoo: An Interview with Deeptanil Ray

Poor Little Rich Boys: The Art of the Mumbai Circulating Library

Inverted Calm: An Interview with Vishwajyoti Ghosh