Fantagraphics Books will release Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, a 280-page 7" x 10" tome, in January. Edited by Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins and designed by uber-designer Chip Kidd, the volume collects manga, illustrations, and interviews with and photographs of the artists and their workspaces.
Manga-ka in the volume include Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Gai Mizuki, Takeshi Matsu, Fumi Miyabi, and Kumada Poohsuke.
The manga genre is a new one to most U.S. readers; "bara" is probably the most common word for it. It’s gay erotic manga created by men for men, a subgenre of seijin (men’s erotica). Bara is closer to seinen than to yaoi, which are gay manga created by women for women, a subset of shojo or josei.
Bara can also have a broader meaning of gay content generally, not just manga, and Men’s Love (ML) or gei comi are alternative terms for the genre.
For January
Posted by ICv2 on November 4, 2014 @ 1:09 am CT