More a career guide book in a graphic novel form. i would like to see more of these. ( )

Overly simplistic, but the advice is a good starting point and it's a little more intersting than reading a standard prose career guide. Still, amount of information-wise, it's more comparable to a handful of bulleted (with supporting paragraph) career tips you might find on a single web page after looking up 'career advice' on Google than something you'd find in a full career guide, anyway. The manga-ification and slightly more creative presentation may make the advice slightly more memorable, but this is probably more an encouraging gift someone might give to a young one starting to head down the career-choosing/starting path (given for the novelty of the format and the higher probability they'll read it since it's short) rather than something anyone would buy for themselves. ...Art's actually a little more solid than I've seen in some fiction OEL. ( )

Here we have The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, an experiment in mixed form: a career guide in the form of a manga story. Is there ANYTHING manga can't do?

Young Mr. Bunko is a number-crunching cubicle dweller who hates his job and wonders how to find a career path. Enter a magical pixie chick who appears to dispense Daniel Pink's career wisdom every time he snaps apart a pair of mystic chopsticks. Bunko follows her advice, advances up the corporate ladder, finds fulfillment. Ta-daaaa!

It makes sense that Pink's professional advice should be served up in a Japanese-style comic, for his six nince-but-vague principles (like "Make excellent mistakes") sound a lot like messages from fortune cookies. But who cares? Office drones need inspiration, and a lot of them will be more likely to absorb it though comic book form.

This is a simple little self-help book - all about having a successful and happy career, and I suppose life. Other than being in manga format it doesn't really stand out. It's view of office life is very simplified, and Bunko's unrealistic successes have more to do with luck than any sort of career wisdom.
The art's fun. ( )

Manga style career guide that actually says more in a few pages than most say in 100s. A must read for college grads - no, for everyone. ( )