I’ll be at Books with Pictures in Portland, Oregon on Sunday, May 31 for a book event! Books with Pictures is a great store and I’m thrilled to be doing an event there. It’s at 3:30pm in the garden (Instagram post with details). I hope to see you there!
Also, if you’ve read Manga’s First Century, it would be great if you could leave a review on the Amazon page. More reviews really do help the book’s visibility in the almighty algorithm. Thank you!
I’m thrilled to say that Manga’s First Century is a 2026 Eisner Award Nominee, in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category. Thank you so much to the judges, and to my editor Enrique Ochoa-Kaup. Congratulations to all the nominees!
While I won’t be at SDCC, I will be at Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Specifically, I’ll be at the JAMS@AX Academic Symposium, speaking on July 2, 2026, as part of the “Representations of History, and History in Anime” panel. I’m very much looking forward to being back at AX, and I hope to see you there!
Greg Sholette and I will be talking about One Piece and the political iconography of protests for this event put on by the Forum on Life, Culture, and Society. Free RSVP is available now, and the (prerecorded) conversation broadcasts online on Monday, May 11, at 7pm Eastern!
I recently spoke with Nathan Hopson about Manga’s First Century for the New Books Network podcast. The episode is available now on the NBN website and through your podcast feeds.
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