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Category: Magazines

  • This Week in Magazines

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    BRUTUS (618) devotes its latest issue to Hitoshi Matsumoto (of manzai duo Downtown), who has been getting a lot of press recently due to the release of his film DAINIPPONJIN. PEN goes extra-size for the celebration of its 200th issue, which takes a look at Edo design. +81 (36) heads to the West Coast for…

  • MiLK JAPON de Luxe

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    MiLK (the original) versus the newly-launched MiLK JAPON: Marxy compares.

  • Otaku USA 1

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    The first issue of OTAKU USA, a new magazine edited by Patrick Macias, is now out. You should be able to find it at local magazine newsstands, but if not, then you can always subscribe.

  • This Week in Magazines

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    BRUTUS (617) features a look at “Rakugo x Musician,” by covering collaboration or mixes between the two fields (rakugo is a traditional Japanese comedic form). The insert is an entire rakugo comic, from the series “Classic Rakugo Comics,” as well as a CD of performances. PEN (199) offers up a very detailed guide to Kamakura,…

  • After Leon, There Was Zino

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    Marxy takes a look at ZINO, a new men’s magazine that will look very familiar to readers of LEON (a magazine he covered at the Clast blog a few weeks ago). For all those dirty old Japanese men who are sick of seeing that human chunk of Italian ham Girolamo Panzetta on the cover of…

  • Magazines: A Historical Journey

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    Momus is, no surprise, a magazine pervert, and he communes at the temple in Shimokitazawa known as Dorama. He offers confession for the AIGA online journal.

  • This Week in Magazines

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    PEN (198) treats us men to a cooking class (that’s what the feature is called, literally “men’s cooking class”), with lots of very tasty recipes, as well as a roundup of a few eat-out ideas. STUDIO VOICE (378) has finally moved beyond its anniversary celebrations and tackles something new, this time with a “Movie Guide…

  • PingMag Loves Magazines

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    PingMag loves magazines almost as much as I do, and in their latest piece interview magCulture‘s Jeremy Leslie about Die Gestalten Verlag‘s WE LOVE MAGAZINES (he art directed the book).