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Yani Mentzas

Contributor

Yani Mentzas

Yani Mentzas is the Editorial Director and Executive Vice President of Vertical, Inc.

Articles by Yani Mentzas

Profession of Faith
By Yani Mentzas
In his final post in this series, Yani Mentzas takes us back to his childhood memories of Tezuka and talks about how public (and private) perceptions of the author’s work have evolved over the years.…
Deus Ex Tezuka: The Inaugural Episode of “Black Jack”
By Yani Mentzas
In his third post for our Japan issue, Yani Mentzas dissects the the moral (and national) background in Tezuka’s work and discusses the religious imagery of a miracle-working doctor. —Editors…
Divine Comics
By Yani Mentzas
In his second post for our Japan issue, Yani Mentzas talks about the divine in the work of Osamu Tezuka —Editors In my previous post I pointed out that Osamu Tezuka—the God of Manga (manga…
Is Tezuka God?
By Yani Mentzas
Continuing our blog coverage this month to celebrate our Japan issue, Yani Mentzas, who many of our readers will remember from his appearance as a blogger during our Graphic Novels issue, holds forth…
Manga Translation: Only Poets Need Apply (Part III)
By Yani Mentzas
In manga translation, the English rendition of the original Japanese has to fit back into a bubble, and the spatial constraints can be formidable given that one language reads top-down and the other left-right.…
Manga Translation: Only Poets Need Apply (Part II)
By Yani Mentzas
The Japanese language employs a mixture of phonetic scripts and ideograms. These latter, the Chinese or kanji characters, invariably take up more space than the original single glyph when rendered into…
Manga Translation: Only Poets Need Apply (Part I)
By Yani Mentzas
In his second post for our blog series on graphic novels this month, Yani Mentzas talks about ensuring quality in manga—in images and in words—and about the very physical constraints of translating…
Translated Fiction: Immensely Popular in the U.S.!
By Yani Mentzas
In his first post for our Graphic Novels blog line-up, Yani Mentzas, Editorial Director of Vertical, Inc., the publisher of—among other great work—Osamu Tezuka’s Black Jack series, talks…