Eike Exner
@eikeexner.com
アイケ・エクスナ
Striphistoricus writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium.
eikeexner.com/books
- Comics and the Origins of Manga
(Rutgers UP, 2021)
- Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
(Yale UP, 2025)
Striphistoricus writing on Japanese comics and the history of the comics medium.
eikeexner.com/books
- Comics and the Origins of Manga
(Rutgers UP, 2021)
- Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
(Yale UP, 2025)
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Eike Exner
@eikeexner.com
· Oct 30
Manga
A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese co...
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Someone already noticed and posted about this elsewhere, so I guess it's time to announce that I've been spending the past three years working on a comprehensive history of manga that traces the development of comics in Japan from the introduction of pantomime cartoons to smartphone apps. Pls buy?
Sometimes research results in serendipitous finds like this
The Chum Song (Louis Freeman) - Played by Jack Hylton And His Orchestra
YouTube video by Martin Arnold
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November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Sometimes research results in serendipitous finds like this
it's costing economy
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
it's costing economy
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
The fact that this guy was ever seen as remotely smart or interesting is such an indictment of our age. To say nothing of the fact that he was made rich through public subsidies and allowed to dismantle parts of the US government, steal gov data, and kill USAID and millions of people with it.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The fact that this guy was ever seen as remotely smart or interesting is such an indictment of our age. To say nothing of the fact that he was made rich through public subsidies and allowed to dismantle parts of the US government, steal gov data, and kill USAID and millions of people with it.
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Me casually rolling the critter ball from Critters 2 at this group, saving the world in a very enjoyable way.
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Me casually rolling the critter ball from Critters 2 at this group, saving the world in a very enjoyable way.
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17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
November 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
17 strikes and you’re out. 💀
Not surprised by this, I've tried to report open nazi shit on Instagram (stuff like "we need Hitler back" and such) and Meta always says it doesn't violate their TOC.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Not surprised by this, I've tried to report open nazi shit on Instagram (stuff like "we need Hitler back" and such) and Meta always says it doesn't violate their TOC.
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Comix 4 All Reading Recommendation-
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by @eikeexner.com for @yalepress.bsky.social on August 5, 2025! This book is an absolute masterpiece! Meticulously researched and well-developed! Ask your library to buy a copy!
#comix4all #manga #libcomix #eisneraward
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by @eikeexner.com for @yalepress.bsky.social on August 5, 2025! This book is an absolute masterpiece! Meticulously researched and well-developed! Ask your library to buy a copy!
#comix4all #manga #libcomix #eisneraward
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Comix 4 All Reading Recommendation-
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by @eikeexner.com for @yalepress.bsky.social on August 5, 2025! This book is an absolute masterpiece! Meticulously researched and well-developed! Ask your library to buy a copy!
#comix4all #manga #libcomix #eisneraward
Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics by @eikeexner.com for @yalepress.bsky.social on August 5, 2025! This book is an absolute masterpiece! Meticulously researched and well-developed! Ask your library to buy a copy!
#comix4all #manga #libcomix #eisneraward
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this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
this is a post where you (yes, YOU) can and should reply with underrated comic strips or other comic-y jokes. could be an unheralded entry from a classic strip or maybe a lesser-known strip altogether.
Do people think that "Japanese drawing books" teach how to draw manga??
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Do people think that "Japanese drawing books" teach how to draw manga??
Finally a museum is tracing the global manga phenomenon's history back to its roots in traditional Japanese art forms (that happen to overlap with materials the museum owns and would very much like young people to come look at)
Featuring ancient narrative scrolls and medieval theatre masks, a new manga exhibition in Paris traces the global phenomenon's history back to its roots in traditional Japanese art forms
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November 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Finally a museum is tracing the global manga phenomenon's history back to its roots in traditional Japanese art forms (that happen to overlap with materials the museum owns and would very much like young people to come look at)
What is going on here? (LLM chatbots, I assume)
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
What is going on here? (LLM chatbots, I assume)
CORRECTION: I said roughly a third of the Democratic Party is just Republicans who run as Democrats in majority-Democratic districts to get elected, but the data shows it's actually closer to one half than one third.
4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
CORRECTION: I said roughly a third of the Democratic Party is just Republicans who run as Democrats in majority-Democratic districts to get elected, but the data shows it's actually closer to one half than one third.
A good third or so of the Democratic Party are just Republicans running in majority Democratic districts.
A serious opposition party would uniformly vote against this nonsense and insteadtry to force Republicans to go on the record about the horrors of fascism, racism, concentration camps etc.
A serious opposition party would uniformly vote against this nonsense and insteadtry to force Republicans to go on the record about the horrors of fascism, racism, concentration camps etc.
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A good third or so of the Democratic Party are just Republicans running in majority Democratic districts.
A serious opposition party would uniformly vote against this nonsense and insteadtry to force Republicans to go on the record about the horrors of fascism, racism, concentration camps etc.
A serious opposition party would uniformly vote against this nonsense and insteadtry to force Republicans to go on the record about the horrors of fascism, racism, concentration camps etc.
Unfortunately we have the world's most carbrained population, which believes that the primary cause of both traffic and crashes is everything BUT cars
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Unfortunately we have the world's most carbrained population, which believes that the primary cause of both traffic and crashes is everything BUT cars
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
A reprint of the early Shochan no Boken episodes from 1923 scanned directly from original issues of the Asahi Graph will be released in January 2026.
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正チャンの冒険・1923 アサヒグラフ連載復刻版｜コミックス単行本｜オフィスヘリア｜コミック新刊チェック
アイテム詳細：正チャンの冒険・1923 アサヒグラフ連載復刻版 26年1月19日(月)発売 レーベル:コミックス単行本 出版社:オフィスヘリア 作家:織田信恒/樺島勝一 価格:3,850円 ショメイ:ショウチャンノボウケン センキュウヒャクニジュウサン アサヒグラフレンサイフッ
comic.sumikko.info
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A reprint of the early Shochan no Boken episodes from 1923 scanned directly from original issues of the Asahi Graph will be released in January 2026.
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Guys, I posted on that nazi website that's micromanaged by that unhinged Boer billionaire promoting the worst behavior by the worst people in the world, and you won't BELIEVE what people there said! Check out this screenshot I took with the nazi site's branding!!
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Guys, I posted on that nazi website that's micromanaged by that unhinged Boer billionaire promoting the worst behavior by the worst people in the world, and you won't BELIEVE what people there said! Check out this screenshot I took with the nazi site's branding!!