Spike is Gren? Spike is Vicious? Spike is Odin, the wanderer god whose ravens represent thought and memory? Spike is Cormac McCarthy’s nameless Kid from ‘Blood Meridian’? Good questions.
Tag: books
The Secret Origins of the Otaku
A brief look at the history of otaku subculture and how it’s been intertwined with the rise of anime in the United States.
What Studio Ghibli’s ‘Tales From Earthsea’ Gets Right
The late Ursula K. Le Guin didn’t love Goro Miyazaki’s take on her classic saga, but the film still understood its heart.
‘A Country Doctor’ Is an Anime Handshake Between Franz Kafka and Kobo Abe
Even Kafka can always get weirder.
Kayla Rae Whitaker on ‘The Animators,’ Sobriety, and Her Favorite Toons: Exclusive
The debut novelist levels with us about alcoholism, how Nickelodeon and ‘The Simpsons’ influenced her work, and comedy writing.
Read or Watch Miyazaki Films. Or Both!
As someone who writes about books by day and about cartoons by all the rest of the times, very little makes me happier than to read something about both. Well, here’s the good news! Literary Hub published just such a something today with Gabrielle Bellot’s “The Magic of Hayao Miyazaki’s Literary Imagination,” and it turned […]