Carrie McClain

Some years ago, I was reading manga and gave some serious thought to the book covers–on what made a manga volume’s design stand out? The colors or lack of? The posing and placement of the characters and so on and so on. I was already halfway with…

CW: This review will discuss themes of child neglect and death. Published in 2016, the gods lie is a brilliant self-contained single volume of manga with a powerful story about the complexities of childhood and the death of innocence. In it,…

Under lock down during the COVID-19 crisis, I have been doing a LOT of reading. In the midst of all the reading I’ve been doing, I started giving serious thought to the book covers, the illustrations and text that give us the very, first visual look…