Tomorrow I’ll be in Coventry talking about Studio Ghibli at the Square One Bar. I’ve presented this talk up the road at the Glee Club in Brum a couple of times, but this is my first time in Coventry …
What do you give the person with everything? Problem solved: original manga art – a page of a published comic, a cover painting or splash page, a sketch. Or maybe an anime cel.
A growing number of dealers specialise in …
As promised yesterday, I’m posting a geek gift idea every couple of days between now and Christmas. First up on my list is a subscription to Animation Obsessive.
It’s pure coincidence that their latest newsletter leads with this beautiful …
On my old website, I used to feature a different small business, charity, blog, website of book every day from 1 December to Christmas Eve – a kind of Advent calendar to highlight a few of the fabulous creators, providers …
Well, never say never … but at present it seems unlikely, for three reasons. Firstly, Hayao Miyazaki has spent more than a decade working on two films. The Wind Rises and The Boy and the Heron, that are deeply …
Frederik L. Schodt is someone whose own scholarship is impeccable. So when he recommends a piece of work on manga history, it’s work checking out.
Mattt’s video is an hour and a half of loving, dedicated and accurate research, conveyed …
I’m delighted that the proceedings of the Lancaster symposium on transnational anime are now published as an issue of the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS), free to read here.
There really is something for everyone here, from papers …
Book launch parties are quite rare these days unless you’re at the celeb end of the author spectrum, so it was a great treat to be invited to one. The picture shows Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham signing their new …
Bookings are now open for my last Studio Ghibli gig of 2025, on 15 December. I’ll be at Dance City on Temple St., Newcastle – here’s hoping that the fog on the Tyne won’t be too freezing in mid-December!
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It’s official – The Manga Bible launches on 5th March 2026! You can help me to supercharge the launch by sharing the news, pre-ordering, and asking your public library or school library to pre-order. These are all great ways to …