I've been keeping up with Mangasplaining Extra since I saw them at ALA last year, so I've been looking forward to Giga Town. The paperback edition has a really nice cover--matte and textured with raised glossy detailing. I picked up a copy at ALA in June, but I guess it's not technically out until September?
Giga Town is a visual guide to manga iconography told via 4-koma strips starring the critters from the Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga scrolls. It's a fun conceit! For anybody who reads a lot of manga, it's not going to contain anything particularly novel, but it's a nice reference for comic artists and the comics are charming. One drawback that might make it less useful for discussion:--the symbols are not given names!
Content warning: there is a strip with a character depicted with black skin darkened by mud after returning from a vacation. I am disappointed that this was not addressed in the English translation of the book.
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