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 …
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 …
I really enjoyed looking round MCM ComicCon on Friday afternoon – big thanks to Chris Whittle of Experience12 for inviting me to check out the PopCultr summit. I only had a few hours, so when I wasn’t listening to fab …
Although asked in the context of Miyazaki’s and Ghibli’s views on the primacy of the feature film, this question covers an issue that’s been debated in the anime business and anime scholarship for decades. It’s a really interesting question, because …
At the beginning of July I was privileged to speak at a symposium on Transnational Perspectives in Anime. It was held on the Lancaster University campus, co-hosted by Dr. Zoe Crombie and Japan Foundation London; I took part from my …
62 years ago, in 1963, 35-year-old Osamu Tezuka flew to the USA to present his hit TV series Tetsuwan Atom to the NBC network. According to Tezuka Production’s history, a preview was screened in New York on 10 March, …
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