Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan | Chip Kidd | Talks at Google

Chip Kidd visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan." This event took place on November 13, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, in this gorgeously produced book, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside stunning photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.

Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer in New York City. His two previous books about comics for Pantheon were Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz and Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. Both won the Eisner Award and were national bestsellers.