Bakuman。 #10

Volume 10 of Bakuman。 puts the creative grind front and center, with Takeshi Obata's cover art depicting the two young manga-making partners hunched over a cluttered worktable — headphones on, pens and ink cups at the ready, shelves of reference books and manga volumes packed tightly behind them. The blonde-haired one flashes a confident smirk while his dark-haired partner focuses intently on the cutting mat before him, capturing perfectly the mix of ambition and hard work that defines this series. Story by Tsugumi Ohba and art by Takeshi Obata, this 2012 Viz/Shonen Jump volume continues one of manga's most compelling portraits of what it actually takes to chase a dream.