Animal Crossing Manga, Hideo Kojima Book Coming This Fall From Viz Media
And in a few short months, both of them can be in your hands.
Some new video game-themed manga is on the way to the West, courtesy of Viz Media. The company has announced that an Animal Crossing: New Horizons manga will release this fall, as will a new book of essays from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Vol. 1 Deserted Island Diary, due out on September 14, is Nintendo s first official book on its popular game of the same name. The book is a Toy Story-like manga that will answer the question: What do the villagers of
OFF RADAR: ‘Didn’t Do Much but a Little of Everything’
Diary of Dalton Raynes offers an unusual look at 1897 coastal Maine
By Dana Wilde
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“Didn’t Do Much but a Little of Everything: The 1897 Eagle Island Diary of Dalton Raynes,” Ian Ludders, ed.; Lulu.com, Morrisville, N.C., 2020; 248 pages, softcover, $10.30.
Despite its title, “Didn’t Do Much but a Little of Everything: The 1897 Eagle Island Diary of Dalton Raynes” devotes far fewer pages to the text of fisherman Dalton Raynes’s diary than it does to detailing “the vast familial spiderweb of nineteenth century Penobscot Bay.”
This might sound dry. The book comprises the diary; ruminative, often lengthy footnotes; photos; a fisherman’s expense ledgers; reproductions of century-old news articles; and other miscellaneous materials such as the editor’s digressive comments on how Native American culture invisibly infuses our lives even now. It all grows like weeds from the terse, fragmentary, bu