My review of vol. 1 of GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class is now up on Manga Life. Here’s an excerpt:

In the interest of full disclosure, I should begin by noting that I generally avoid picking up yonkoma series, as I mostly read manga for the rich character and plot development made possible by the multi-page chapters of lengthy serialized stories. Yonkoma obviously can’t tell those kinds of stories, and in general their individual strips tend to rely heavily on one-note gags. Such gags can certainly be very funny, occasionally even sublime, but they usually aren’t enough to inspire love in this particular reader.