CR Sunday Magazine

Arguing with Heer and Worcester

I think I receive about a half-dozen comics-related books per year now; it takes a lot to make me actually devour one cover to cover. Although Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium may for some of us sound like death -- essays from America's public intellectuals about comics up through the early 1960s -- in actuality it may be one of the most lively and engaging books about comics to be released in quite a few years. If you've ever felt alone struggling with what comics really mean, or how we should look at entertainment and art, this book will connect you to a smart dialogue on those subjects stretching back decades. I talked to editors Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester about the volume and how it was put together.

So Where Do You Buy Used Manga?

My friends and I were talking about comics this weekend, when the subject turned to where we are in the publishing cycles of American manga companies. With some titles going all the way through a licensing cycle, wouldn't it make sense that there would be a crush of less heavily sold manga out there that would be cheap? Is there somewhere out there I can go and pick up the early Harlem Beat volumes for $4 a book now? Where would I do this? If not, what is it about the manga market that means I can't?

I was excited to find this list, but it's almost three years old.

So does anyone out there buy manga used, and have .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for finding this stuff a few years behind the market's cutting edge?

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Thank You For Putting Up With the Tip Drive

I'd like to thank all the regular readers who put up with last week's tip drive; and a quadruple thank-you to everyone who gave. I will issue a note to each of you as soon as possible, but I'm not sure yet if I should avoid looking at names to help keep some critical distance. Either way it works out, I greatly appreciate your patience and generosity, and I hope everyone enjoys the improvements this will make possible, improvements you should see throughout the summer.
 
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