Ryan Holmberg

Ryan Holmberg is an arts and comics historian. He has taught at the University of Chicago, the City University of New York, and Duke University and is a frequent contributor to Art in America, Artforum, and The Comics Journal. He has edited and translated a number of books of Japanese comics, including Tadao Tsuge’s Slum Wolf, forthcoming from New York Review Comics. He is currently a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. (August 2017)

Tadao’s War Memory Manga

While manga artist Tadao’s work is a unique intervention into the literature of war memory, it also speaks to issues of class, geography, and the built environment.

September 1, 2018

‘Fukushima Devil Fish’: A Nuclear Pastoral

That the nuclear disasters ushered in a new era in Japanese culture is widely recognized. That they also inspired a reappraisal of what had been made in the past is only partially so.

August 18, 2018

Fukushima from Within

Kazuto Tatsuta’s graphic memoir of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is probably the first work of journalistic comics in the world to supersede its prose counterparts as the most popular source on its topic.

August 28, 2017

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