Comments on: Handcrafting Manga

By: Lori Henderson

Lori Henderson — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:07:00 +0000

@Helen Thanks for the link to Handknit Heroes. I’ll definitely check it out!

@lys I’ve heard some about V.B. Rose, but not about all the crafting. I’ll have to check it out. I’ll check out Nadeshiko Club when it comes out, but it looks like crafts will be by the wayside in that one too.

By: lys

lys — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:38:12 +0000

V.B. Rose! The heroine makes purses and bags and stuffed animals and then gets recruited to a wedding dress making shop! There she meets other lovely characters who do bead-work and flower arrangements/bouquets? It is full of pretty craftiness (again, more as an accessory to the story than the focus of the story itself, but you still get to see lots of cool things being made)!

And from there, I’m not quite sure if flower-arrangement counts, but if it does there is Zig*Zag, currently on hiatus with Tokyopop, about a boy who makes pretty things with flowers.

Also, we might see a bit of crafty stuff in Nadeshiko Club, due out from CMX… soonish?

(hmm, all of these series involve boys doing at least some of the crafting… at least VBR’s heroine takes on a substantial amount of the creativity in her series)

By: Helen McCarthy

Helen McCarthy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:50:32 +0000

There is an independent comic about knitting – Handknit Heroes. It’s written by an American, illustrated by a Briton, and it has a pattern in every issue. More here:

http://www.comicknits.com/