Ashley says: Reading Moto Hagio is like falling into a dream. One of the pioneers of shoujo manga, she's essential reading for any comics fan. Showcasing the depth of her truly iconic style and beautifully uncanny sensibilities, this book is a masterpiece.
Fantagraphics Books is proud to present the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio's Otherworld Barbara, in which Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara. Then there's a mysterious and missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grieving grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado... Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships.This book won the"Nebula Award of Japan" (Nihon SF Taisho Award) in 2006.
Ashley says: Reading Moto Hagio is like falling into a dream. One of the pioneers of shoujo manga, she's essential reading for any comics fan. Showcasing the depth of her truly iconic style and beautifully uncanny sensibilities, this book is a masterpiece.
Fantagraphics Books is proud to present the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio's Otherworld Barbara, in which Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara. Then there's a mysterious and missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grieving grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado... Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships.This book won the"Nebula Award of Japan" (Nihon SF Taisho Award) in 2006.
Ashley says: Reading Moto Hagio is like falling into a dream. One of the pioneers of shoujo manga, she's essential reading for any comics fan. Showcasing the depth of her truly iconic style and beautifully uncanny sensibilities, this book is a masterpiece.
Fantagraphics Books is proud to present the first volume (of two) of Moto Hagio's Otherworld Barbara, in which Tokio discovers a phantom island named Barbara. Then there's a mysterious and missing geneticist, an eccentric clergyman, a grieving grandmother granted temporary youth, a psychologist killed by a freak tornado... Hagio offers a sci-fi explanation for these seemingly random paranormal elements, and makes it all matter with believable characters in complex and subtle relationships.This book won the"Nebula Award of Japan" (Nihon SF Taisho Award) in 2006.
