Chip Kidd talks about Bat-Manga

A nice interview with CK about his new book, the popularity of Batman around the world, and the Japanese take on the Caped Crusader.

CK: I dearly love this stuff and that was the prime motivator in putting this book together. It's kind of extraordinary to me that this work, as good as it is, with a character that has this kind of universal appeal, was virtually unknown. There were people in Japan that had a memory of it, but in terms of any active reprinting, no one ever seemed interested. On the one hand, it amazes me, and on the other, I'm really grateful, because I got the opportunity to do it. This stuff is great, and it deserves as wide an audience as it can get.