Thursday, January 13, 2011

The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography


#572
Title: The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography
Author: Tetsu Saiwai
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2010
224 pages

An easy-to-read and generally engaging history of the 14th Dalai Lama's early life. Some of the action is a little hard to follow, in part because several people aren't drawn sufficiently distinctly. I'm not sure what makes this a manga rather than a graphic biography or even a cartoon history. It doesn't use manga conventions for graphics or layout. Perhaps all cartoons are now generically manga.

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