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New Read - Offshore Lightning

Offshore Lightning is a collection of individual stories from Saito Nazuna. They are mostly about mundane, everyday life.

The stories aren't flashy. They're all modern-ish, real, and personal stories about people just living with the highs and lows that come with that.

Some of the stories end with a hard stop, others end with no real closure. But, that's life and fits the style.

The stories were written in different periods in Nazuna's life and reflect the things people go through at different stages in life.

Overall, an interesting and unique read.

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#MangaMonday 22 “Offshore Lightning” by Saito Nazuna

Saito Nazuna did not start off as a manga artist. She was an illustrator, and during the seventies she drew a column (mixing journalism and her sketches) for a Sankei newspaper. When she entered a “Newcomer” #manga contest, she was forty years old.

Her stories are snapshots of life, usually of an adult nature but only occasionally of an “adult” nature. Her early art style isn’t super realistic in the technical sense, but her characters are individuals. There is a noticeable art shift demarcated by the decade she was on hiatus, teaching in a manga program while caring for her ailing mother and husband. After that point the art is more detailed and the stories are more concerned with death.

To a Western eye, she has a lot in common with indie comic artists. Unsurprising, perhaps, that this anthology is published by Drawn & Quarterly and has been nominated for a 2024 Eisner Award (Best Anthology.)

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