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Posted on September 17, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, comics, events, history, Japan, manga | Tags: anime, Candy Candy, Cannon Fodder, China, Cool Japan, Force Five, Hakujaden, Lao Tzu, Macross, manga, Maya The Bee, Rose of Versailles, SMAP, soft power, Star Blazers, Toei Animation |
Japn’s “soft diplomacy” has come a long way – from ‘Hakujaden’ in 1958 to SMAP in Beijing in 2011. But can a pop song, a cosplay, or an urgent desire to make manga outside Japan really change the world?
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Posted on August 17, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, Consuming, costume, Creating, events, Japan, manga, needlework, pictures, workshops | Tags: anime, AnimeIowa, Chris Ayres, conventions, cosplay, Doctor Who, ferrets, Greg Ayres, Jan Scott-Frazier, Kyle Hebert, Lea Hernandez, Madame de Pompadour, manga, Manga Cross Stitch, natsukashii, Robert Axelrod, Satoshi Kon, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga |
Noisy, joyous, full of life. Reading old radio plays with Kyle Hebert at the helm. Hanging out with Jan Scott-Frazier. Dinner with the Brothers Ayres. Meeting Lea Hernandez again for the first time in sixteen years. Rubber ducky racing. Host and maid cafes. Judging the Masquerade and gaping at some lovely cosplay (including my first-ever [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2011. Filed under: anime, manga, Japan, appearances, events, history, workshops, haiku, pictures | Tags: Gloria Oliver, Lee Martindale, Peter S. Beagle, United States, Anime North, Jana Oliver, Esther Friesner, Lynn Abbey, Elizabeth Moon, Project A-Kon, Laura J. Underwood, Terrance Griep, The Ladies of Trade Town, Project: A-Kon 22, anime convention |
Another weekend, another huge convention. It’s 100ºF in Dallas and the aircon is struggling to cope with A-Kon.
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Posted on June 4, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, costume, events, Japan, manga, needlework, pictures, writing | Tags: anime, Anime Hell, Anime North, Anime UK, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Canada, Carl Macek, Claude Pelletier, Corinne Orr, cosplay, Doctor Who, Ed Miliband, Frank Miller, Fred Ladd, Go Nagai, Hayao Miyazaki, iPad, Jan Howard Finder, manga, Manga Cross Stitch, Momiji Award, Peter Fernandez, Pokemon, Takayuki Matsutani, The Beguiling |
Anime North was my first visit to Canada, and it was a blast. They gave me an award, but that was only the beginning.
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Posted on May 21, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, books, events, Japan, kamishibai, manga, pictures, workshops | Tags: anime, Arts, Charles Wirgman, Frank A. Nankivell, Frederik L. Schodt, Graphic novel, Ippei Okamoto, kamishibai, libraries, manga, Pimlico, Rakuten Kitazawa, Westminister, World War II |
Public libraries are fun, funky and free, and occasionally they invite speakers like me to talk about books and subjects we love!
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Posted on May 17, 2011. Filed under: anime, appearances, films, Japan | Tags: anime, Audio-visual, education, Hayao Miyazaki, mythology, Nausicaä, Princess Mononoke, Rosemary Sutcliff, Studio Ghibli, United States, University of Maryland College Park |
The University of Maryland invited me to lecture last month. Want to hear it? There’s a video link here.
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Posted on October 24, 2010. Filed under: anime, appearances, costume, events, manga, travel, writing | Tags: Akira, anime, Anime Los Angeles, Anime UK, Christopher Priest, Eastcon 90, Eastercon, Fist of the North Star, Fred Patten, Gerry Anderson, Katsuhiro Otomo, Los Angeles, manga, Manga Entertainment, Peter Goll, Philip Strick, science fiction, Space Battleship Yamato, Star Trek Correspondence Club |
Helen’s fannish past is long gone, but not forgotten, as a recent convention invitation shows.
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Posted on December 4, 2009. Filed under: appearances, events, kamishibai | Tags: Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Barbican, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Yassan |
If you’re in Washington DC this weekend, go and see one of the few remaining licensed kamishibai performers at the Smithsonian Institution’s Osamu Tezuka festival in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. Yassan usually works at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, where his mastery of this unique street art form entertains young and old alike. He [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2009. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, manga | Tags: Black Jack, Declan Murphy, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, Gundam, Hunterian Museum, Mechatronics in Medicine, Osamu Tezuka, Richard Hollingham, Sci-Fi Surgery, U-18 Knew |
An evening at London’s Hunterian Museum showed how far surgical robots have come along the road from science fiction to science fact – and how far they still have to travel.
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