Essays

Damn All Gamblers to the Pits of Hell

Hirata Hiroshi and the Buraku Question: Understanding Bloody Stumps Samurai

Garo Magazine and Alternative Manga

Manga, exh. cat., ed. Nicole Rousmaniere and Matsuba Ryoko (The British Museum, 2019)

Ryan Holmberg: Interview about Manga and Translation

Kanto Loam Stories: Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today

Matsumoto Katsuji: Modern Tomboys and Early Shōjo Manga

Fukushima Devil Fish: A Nuclear Pastoral

Baron Yoshimoto’s Comics Gekiga

The Vagabond Zone

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

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

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