Essays:

Chasing Butterflies in Ink: Reading Nabokov through Urasawa, Reading Urasawa through Nabokov

A hybrid fictional–critical essay told in second person, gambling through ink-worlds where meaning keeps changing the rules.

Creative writing:

the pale life of the inkster (an unfinished inkvitation)

A manga/graphic novel script told in 100-word drabbles, spiraling through shifting selves and disintegrating realities. Japanese translation available on request.

for the times, they’re a-changin’

An anomaly in Tenma’s brain gives him extraordinary healing abilities. Bonaparta wants to shape them.

A transformative narrative work based on Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, with a few other literary ghosts hidden inside.

Tantō

A transformative narrative piececentering on Mrs. Tenma (from Another Monster’s brief but loaded mentions), with 20th Century Boys references.