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![]() Shigeru Mizuki's 1973 Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is one such work, lovingly released this May by Montreal publisher Drawn & Quarterly. ![]() Despite the genreās popularity in Japan, important works of manga are only now beginning to appear in translation in the US market. A typical work may contain several shorter storylines and can range from 200 to 400 pages in length. Widely read in Japan, where it is a $4 billion industry, manga depicts stories of everything from shogunate sword fights to the lives of high-school tennis stars. ![]() ![]() The Japanese story form known as manga -with its extended plotlines and distinct pictorial style-falls somewhere between graphic novel and comic book. ![]()
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