{"id":6504,"date":"2018-05-19T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2018-05-19T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T21:04:30","slug":"mike-mignola-exhibit-at-society-of-illustrators-and-some-other-comics-centric-stuff-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=6504","title":{"rendered":"Mike Mignola Exhibit at Society of Illustrators… and Some Other Comics-Centric Stuff in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I recently had the good fortune to find myself in New York… and by “good fortune,” I mean: I set some travel alerts on Hopper and wound up getting a ridiculously low price on a one day to-and-from flight to NYC. While there, I checked out a few things likely of interest to comics folk, culminating with the the exhibit, The Art of Mike Mignola: Hellboy and Other Curious Objects<\/em>, on display at the Society of Illustrators.<\/p>\n

I started my visit, though, with a stop at Kinokuniya<\/a>, the great Japanese book store off Bryant Park in Manhattan. This is a three-story book store that’s full of amazing stuff. The bottom floor is mostly Japanese stationary, toys, and tchotchkes; the ground floor is all Japanese language prose books; and the glorious top floor is all manga and art books–some in English, some in Japanese. In order to get to the top floor, though, you have to walk past a display of whatever these horrifying things are <shudder>.<\/p>\n

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Once there, you’ll be amongst the most manga you’ll likely ever see in one place. The shelving is divided into two sections: Japanese language manga, and translated stuff. They also have a selection of American comics that’s as good as most small book stores, as well as a ton of art\/coffee table books.<\/p>\n\n\t\t