I often get asked about the cute cotton tunic dresses I wear to present my Seed Talks. They’re licensed Ghibli merch and they come straight from French website Maison Ghibli.
This is the outlet for SEMEC, Ghibli’s European distributors and …
My last Seed Talk of 2025 is in Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 December 2025. You can get tickets here.
My next book on Hayao Miyazaki is due out next year – no date yet but I’ll announce it …
Books: the perfect gift. All shapes, sizes and styles, physical or immaterial, streams of data or sound waves to be accessed through a device. The physical sort can be exotically sensual and beautiful, with fabulous bindings and illustrations. But the …
I had SO MUCH FUN it ought to be illegal – my first time on the Aunty Sochelle podcast! We talked about my forthcoming book The Manga Bible, the history of manga, fandom, and lots of other fun stuff.
This …
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 …