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Talk to My Back – Yamada Murasaki Offers Subversive Slices of Women’s Domestic Lives, Via D+Q

  • by Lindsay Pereira
  • August 4, 2022

In 2017, Martine van Elk, professor of English at California State University, published a comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It documented responses by women to…

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The Pits of Hell – Breakdown Press Collect the Raw, Visceral and Ever Vital Work of Alternative Mangaka Ebisu Yoshikazu

  • by Ally Russell Shields
  • December 19, 2019

“Television star, father of three, professional gambler, writer, cartoonist, pioneer”. Add in mop rental salesman, and there reads the resumé of Ebisu Yoshikazu; the alternative mangaka whose raw, visceral and…

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Red Red Rock and Other Stories – Four Decades on, Hayashi Seiichi’s Alternative Manga Retain the Power to Beguile and Mystify

  • by Tom Murphy
  • June 10, 2016

Red Red Rock and Other Stories, a new collection of Hayashi Seiichi’s alternative manga from Breakdown Press, is a demanding but rewarding read. After 30 years of thumbing (and latterly…

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