Great news for fans of Fumiyo Kouno: the crew at Mangasplaining has teamed up with UDON to publish Kouno’s Giga Town: Manpu Zufu (A Catalog of Manga Symbols). Giga Town uses characters from the Choju-jinbutsu-giga to demystify “the visual iconography of manga,” or manpu. Though Kouno’s work won’t be serialized on the Mangasplaining website, Deb Aoki, Christopher Woodrow-Butcher and Andrew Woodrow-Butcher will be intimately involved in bringing Giga Town to North American readers; Ko Ransom (Invitation From a Crab) will translate. The gang promises regular updates on the project: “If you ever wanted to go behind the scenes on how a manga is made from licensing through translation, lettering, and more, well, get ready to have it Manga-splained to you.” Giga Town is slated for a spring 2023 release. NEWS, INTERVIEWS, AND ESSAYS ICYMI:...

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