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 September 13, 2010. Filed under: Creating, history, kamishibai, manga, workshops | Tags: Arts, comics, Creators, Ippei Okamoto, Jason King, kamishibai, manga, manga history, Osamu Tezuka, Shigeru Mizuki, Workers Educational Association |
Read all about Helen’s forthcoming London evening class on manga history.
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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 25, 2009. Filed under: anime, comics, manga | Tags: 2001 Nights, Blue Hole, British Museum, Comica, Frederik L. Schodt, James P. Hogan, kamishibai, Osamu Tezuka, Phoenix, Professor Munakata, Saber Tiger, Toei Manga Matsuri, Trou Bleu, Two Faces of Tomorrow, Yukinobu Hoshino |
Yukinobu Hoshino’s manga mysteries are on display at the British Museum, yet to the vast majority of English-speaking fans, most of his career is a mystery.
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Posted on November 20, 2009. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, kamishibai, manga | Tags: Ada Palmer, Frederik L. Schodt, James Smithson, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Musueum, Natsu Onoda Power, Smithsonian Institution, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Yassan, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Yuushi Yasuno |
The opening weekend of the Smithsonian Institution’s Tezuka festival – four authors, an audience and the work of a genius.
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Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, kamishibai, manga | Tags: Ada Palmer, anime, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Frederik L. Schodt, kamishibai, Natsu Onoda Power, Smithsonian Institution, TezukaInEnglish, Yassan |
Opening this weekend, the Festival at the Sackler and Freer Galleries Cinema honours Osamu Tezuka with screenings of his films, a special show by Kyoto’s longest-established working kamishibai performer Yassan, and talks by several prominent Tezuka scholars. Have a look at the website. Even if you can’t be there, there are essays by Frederik L. Schodt, [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2009. Filed under: appearances, Consuming, events, Japan, kamishibai | Tags: Japan, kamishibai, Sarah Rundle, storyteller, Wellcome Collection |
Go and see storyteller Sarah Rundle perform Rokuro-Kubi, a Japanese goblin-tale taken from Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan, using her own kamishibai artwork. It’s part of Stories from Silence at the Wellcome Collection in London on 18/19 July 2009.
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Posted on June 20, 2009. Filed under: anime, Japan, kamishibai, manga | Tags: Alex Kerr, anime, Comiket, Contemporary Manga Library, Cool Japan, Gigantor, Jeffrey A. Dym, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Museum, library, manga, Manga Cafe, museum, National Center for Media Arts, Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, Prange, Takeshi Tanikawa, Taro Aso, Tetsujin 28, Village People, Yoshihiro Yonezawa |
Japan’s attitude to preserving its mass culture is changing, but not everybody thinks that’s it’s a good thing. With much of kamishibai’s historic art already destroyed, it seems some politicians are happy for manga to go the same way. But Japanese and foreign scholars think comics aren’t really so inconsequential, and are working to preserve and study them.
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Posted on June 12, 2009. Filed under: writing | Tags: Abrams ComicArts, anime, Eric P. Nash, Frederik L. Schodt, kamishibai, manga, writing, Yassan, Yasuno Yuushi |
Sometimes there’s a book you really want to write – and someone else has the same idea! It happened to me with kamishibai, a Japanese street performance art with a major influence on the modern manga industry.
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