A career guide book in manga style

Friday

This has nothing to do with me being a HUGE anime fan (okay, maybe a little) but I noticed this book over at presentationzen.com.

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need, a book by Daniel H. Pink.

If you remember, I mentioned one of his previous books last week at "Why right brain people will take over the world".

Now why make a book in comic form? Let's see the author's response.

1. Comics and graphic novels aren’t just for kids. In Japan, manga for adults is nothing out of the ordinary. You can find comics on just about any topic and for just about any age. It’s cool. In the west, although manga has become extremely popular, it’s still mostly the province of the young. There’s no logical reason for that. So I figured it was time to try the manga-for-grownups approach in the US -- with the first business book for a western audience in manga.
2. The career book needed a radical overhaul. As I explain in the WTF? section (our version of FAQs), most career books aren’t very good. And a fundamental reason is that today so much information -- especially specific, tactical, how-to information -- is available online. Books can’t compete with that. In this environment, books have to offer advice that eludes Googling. That means strategic, big picture advice -- in fact, the six broad lessons about work that I wish I’d known 25 years ago.
3. Writers need to respect readers’ time. People are busy. When they pick up a book, they’re offering writers an extremely precious commodity: Their time. One of the virtues of manga -- something that nearly every manga artist, critic, and publisher I met inJapan mentioned -- is that it’s fast. Very fast. It moves along a pace far more akin to an action movie than a literary novel. My collaborator, Rob Ten Pas, and I have worked mightily to make this a book you can read in an hour. If it takes longer than that, shame on me for wasting your time.

He's got a nice trailer for his book:

And we can even get a better feel of the contents of the book (euh, comic) thanks to Garr Reynolds of Presentationzen (with kickass slides as usual).