The late author Tomie dePaola’s cozy grandma witch ‘Strega Nona’ is all the rage. Who among us couldn’t use a little magic and healing right about now? She is not the glamorous but creepy ...

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Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident ...

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At the time the artist Willys de Castro composed this poem, he had relinquished his brief career as an industrial chemist at ExxonMobil’s Esso. The Appearance at New York’s Americas Society succeeds ...

Junji Ito (who we interviewed back in 2021) has been creating manga professionally since 1987, when he submitted the story that would become his classic series Tomie to Monthly Halloween magazine.

Ito won an honorable mention for “Tomie” when the Kazuo Umezu Prize for rookie cartoon artists was announced in the magazine Monthly Halloween in 1986. He made his debut as a professional ...

There’s a new trend on social media that involves cozy kitchens, huge bowls of pasta and an Italian grandmother witch.

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Ito is something of an international superstar, thanks to his haunting stories collected in anthologies and published outside ...