Johnny hates his job, but by the end of this book, he's working it out

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need

By Daniel H. Pink, art by Rob Ten Pas

Riverhead Books, $15, 160 pages

Daniel Pink, author of best-sellers Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, has written the first business book to be published in the USA in the style of Japanese illustrated manga: The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need.

Pink tackles serious issues in a humorous, hybrid fiction/non-fiction format, telling the story of the career journey of a young office worker everyman, Johnny Bunko. Pink is aided by the crackling artwork of Rob Ten Pas, an American who won the grand prize in the sixth Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga competition.

In the beginning, Johnny is a miserable cube-dweller at the soul-killing Boggs Corp. By the book's end, he is a reasonably enlightened team ...