What is Obscenity?

The word would be censored. The image would be pixelated. I was taught from a very young ago that "manko" was a bad word. More

The Best We Could Do

I think a lot of Americans forget that for the Vietnamese the war continued, whether America was involved or not. More

Things That Go Bump in the Night

In this installment of The Illustrated PEN, artist and writer MariNaomi recalls a traumatic encounter she suffered as a teen, and describes how, years later, she still grapples with… More

Curveball

An excerpt from Jeremy Sorese's debut graphic novel, "Curveball," a science-fiction and end-of-love story. More

Turning Japanese

Mari-san, why didn’t your mother teach you Japanese? That’s a question I’ve been asking for a long time. More