Essays

Below is a selection of essays available to read online, purchase, or download. For a full list of my academic essays, topical articles, reviews, and published interviews, please see my CV.

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Hirata Hiroshi and the Buraku Question: Understanding Bloody Stumps Samurai

Hirata Hiroshi, Bloody Stumps Samurai (Retrofit/Big Planet, 2019)  
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Garo Magazine and Alternative Manga

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Ryan Holmberg: Interview about Manga and Translation

Bubbles no. 3 (July 2019)  
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Kanto Loam Stories: Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 17:8 (April 2019)  
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Matsumoto Katsuji: Modern Tomboys and Early Shōjo Manga

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Fukushima Devil Fish: A Nuclear Pastoral

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

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Shambhavi Kaul’s Haunted Nursery

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Fukushima From Within: Tatsuta Kazuto’s Ichi-F

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Nuclear Literati: Nakashima Kiyoshi’s Furusato Goes to Hell

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Atomic Modernism: Indian Abstraction at TIFR, Mumbai

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Pro-Nuclear Manga: The Seventies and Eighties

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When Manga was Pop

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

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

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Nuclear Gypsies: Art, Manga, and Nuclear Plant Labor

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

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

The Comics Journal (May 2015)  
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Dharavi Comics Epidemic: An Interview with Chaitanya Modak

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Odes and Inquisitions: Sino-Indian Connections in Recent Indian Art

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

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Proto-Gekiga: Matsumoto Masahiko’s Komaga

The Comics Journal, (October 2014)