Taiyo Matsumoto Archives

Taiyo Matsumoto is one of the more unpredictable and unusual manga creators out there Past titles like Tikkonkinkreet and Ping Pong suggest his ideas are outliers in manga canon They don't have the usual codified cute faces or awkward teen dramas of many series Cats of the Louvre might be his most unexpected story yet. Viz[...]

The Tipping Point is a new comic book volume by Humanoids, featuring thirteen stories from comics creators from the USA, Japan and Europe over a hundred pages. The thirteen are John Cassaday, Paul Pope, Bob Fingerman, Frederik Peeters, Katsuya Terada, Naoki Urasawa, Bastien Vives, Taiyo Matsumoto, Emmanuel Lepage, Eddie Campbell, Atsushi Kaneko and Enki Bilal[...]

This year it was won by Bill Watterson, after Alan Moore declined the honour. Nevertheless, he is nominated again, as well as for the first time, Stan Lee! Christophe Blain Christian Binet Charles Burns Daniel Clowes Nicolas de Crécy Pierre Christin Cosey Étienne Davodeau Edika Emmanuel Guibert Hermann Alejandro Jodorowsky Quino Stan Lee Milo Manara Taiyo Matsumoto Lorenzo Mattotti Alan Moore Katsuhiro Otomo Marjane Satrapi Joann Sfar Bill Sienkiewicz Jiro Taniguchi Richard Corben Jean Van Hamme Chris Ware Favourites are Katsuhiro Otomo, after he[...]