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October 17, 2011
By Ng Suat Tong
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Tatsumi: The Facsimile as Homage

A review of Tatsumi. Directed by Eric Khoo. In Japanese with English subtitles.

A Comment on the Subaltern’s Progress through <i>Habibi</i>

A Comment on the Subaltern’s Progress through Habibi

The resultant comic is one that will excite every Western prejudice imaginable; not only of a depraved society but one of helpless, abused Arabian women begging to be saved from their bestial male counterparts.

<i>Big Questions</i>: Our Father, Where Art Thou?

September 27, 2011
By Ng Suat Tong
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Big Questions: Our Father, Where Art Thou?

It is, perhaps, only in this collected edition that the inter-species relationships of Nilsen’s comic thicken and caramelize, only here that the pitched battles acquire any degree of emotional tension, only here that the scope of the entire work can be appreciated.

September 5, 2011
By Ng Suat Tong
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Umezu Kazuo: Gods and Devils

On Umezu Kazuo’s The Left Hand of God, The Right Hand of the Devil. Contains images which are NSFW.

April 19, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
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Ryan Holmberg on Tsuge and Tatsumi

I agree with the basic crux of this analysis of Tatsumi. I think it is harsh but fair when it comes to metaphor and sexual values. In that era of Tatsumi’s work every oblong is a phallus and every hole a vagina, no doubt, and the misogyny is unmistakable.