The Translator Without Talent, a book from Ryan Holmberg who’s an art historian, translator and comics scholar. I love niche books like this. It collects a series of instagram posts from 2017-2019 during a stint the author spent in Japan as a visiting professor at Tokyo University. The entries detail manga news, thoughts on translation, manga history research findings plus meetings with various manga artists and more!
Sadly I was not following @mangaberg on IG back when these posts were made and the only downside to reading this now is finding out about a lot of great books that are out of print and no longer available (Bloody Stumps Samurai being the prime example).
If you have any interest in alt-manga you should definitely be checking out Holmberg’s translation work as well as the in depth essays that accompany them from publishers like D&Q, Breakdown Press, New York Review Comics and others. Also check out his IG account.
