Hot Summer Read: Mangaman

August 7, 2012 | Lamb | Comments (2)

Mangaman, by Barry Lyga

What would happen if a manga character found himself in the world of Western-style comics?

In Mangaman, Ryoko Kiyama, a manga character with big eyes and an amazingly small waistline, falls through a mysterious rift into a North American comic-book drama. Ryoko seems like a freak to the more “realistic” characters, who wonder at first if he’s even alive. But if he can’t get home, he needs to find a way to fit in to this new world—whether it is “real” or not.

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