AX Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga

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ISBN 10: 1603090428 / ISBN 13: 9781603090421

Published by Top Shelf Productions, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AX Volume 1: A Collection of Alternative Manga
• Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603090428
• ISBN 13: 9781603090421
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

•  Nominated for a Harvey Award, 2010.
  'Ten best comic books of 2010', Publishers Weekly, and number 2 in Publishers Weekly critics poll.

• A groundbreaking introduction to the most creative andcutting-edge works of Japanese independent comics, presented in English for thefirst time, AX is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics.Published bi-monthly for over ten years, the pages of AX contain the mostcreative and cutting-edge works of independent comics in the world's largestcomics industry. Now, Top Shelf presents this collection of stories from tenyears of AX history, and features work by such visionaries as Yoshihiro Tatsumi,Akino Kondoh, Kazuichi Hanawa, and Shinichi Abe.

About the Author

Sean Michael Wilson is from Scotland, now living in Japan. He is the only British pro comic book writer living in Japan. He has had many books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, such as 'A Christmas Carol' (Sunday Times 'Best of 2008'), 'The Story of Lee' (NBM), 'The Book of Five Rings' (Shambhala Publications) and edited the critically acclaimed 'AX:alternative manga' (Publishers Weekly's 'Best ten books of 2010'). In 2016, his manga version of Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese tales The Faceless Ghost, was nominated for a prestigious Eisner book award. 
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