#tokyo international comic festival

[brookston]

Holidays 8.11

Holidays

Alcatraz Day

Annual Medical Check-Up Day

Border Guard Day (Turkmenistan)

Brother's Day

Builder’s Day (Former USSR Nations)

Burry Man Parade Day (Scotland)

Cheech and Chong Day (San Antonio, Texas)

Chris Hemsworth Day

Constitution Day (Anguilla)

Day of the Latvian Freedom Fighters (Latvia)

Deimos and Phobos Discovery Day (Moons of Mars)

Dog Days of Summer end

811 Day

Fair Day (Puck Fair, Day 2; Ireland)

Festival of Happy Feet

Fiesta de Santa Clara (New Mexico)

Flag Day (Pakistan)

Freethinkers Day

Gay Uncles Day (a.k.a. Guncles Day)

Global Kinetic Sand Day

Green Bay Packers Day

Health Center Staff Appreciation Day

Heroes' Day (Zimbabwe)

Hip Hop Celebration Day

Hug a Tiny Day

Ingersoll Day

Inula Day (French Republic)

Koomu Alezer’i (Elder Scrolls)

Mountain Day (Japan)

National Align Your Teeth Day

National Canine Companion Graduation Day

National Day of Civic Hacking

National Face Mask Day

National Hip Hop Day

National Minority Day (Pakistan)

National Safe Digging Day

Navy Day (Bulgaria)

Nutritionist Day (Mexico)

Play in the Sand Day

Presidential Joke Day

Roller Rink Day

Son’s and Daughter’s Day

SOS Day

Veterinary Workers Day (Ukraine)

Watts Riots Anniversary Day (Los Angeles)

WIT Brag Day

World Krill Day

World Steelpan Day (Trinidad & Tobago)

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Fufu Day

National Bakewell Tart Day (UK)

National Instant Coffee Day

National Panini Day

National Raspberry Bombe Day

National Raspberry Tart Day

Independence & Related Days

Balochistan (from UK, 1947) [unrecognized]

Chad (from France, 1960)

Ebenthal (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Penang (Ceded to the British by Rajah of Kedah; 1786)

2nd Sunday in August

Bagel Day [2nd Sunday]

Children’s Day (Chile) [2nd Sunday]

Day of Cantabria (Spain) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Brazil, Samoa) [2nd Sunday]

Gay Uncles Day [2nd Sunday]

Melon Day (Turkmenistan) [2nd Sunday]

National Day [2nd Sunday]

Spirit of ’45 Day [2nd Sunday]

Victory Day (Rhode Island) [2nd Sunday]

V-J Day (a.k.a. Victory Day) [2nd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 11 (2nd Full Week of August)

Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Week]

National Health Center Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Week]

National Resurrect Romance Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Full Week]

National Smile Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning August 11, 2024

Beacon Sloop Club Corn Festival (Beacon, New York)

Bludfest (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)

Carytown Watermelon Festival (Richmond, Virginia)

Comiket [Comic Market] (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 8.12]

Czech Heritage Festival (Bechyn, Minnesota)

Hugo Awards (Glasgow, Scotland)

Italian American Festival (Akron, Ohio) [thru 8.13]

Kadayawan Festival (Davao City, Philippines) [thru 8.18]

Montrose Blueberry Festival (Montrose, Michigan) [thru 8.18]

Oslo Jazzfestival (Oslo, Norway) [thru 8.17]

Feast Days

Alexander the Charcoal-Burner (Christian; Martyr)

Alex Haley (Writerism)

Ancestor Day III (Pagan)

Andre Dubus II (Writerism)

Athracht (a..k.a. Attracta or Araght; Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Blaan (a.k.a. Blane; Christian; Saint)

Byron (Positivist; Saint)

Clare of Assisi (Christian; Saint)

Clare Foley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Claude Joseph Vernet (Artology)

Day Honoring Oddudua (a.k.a. Mother of All Gods; Santeria)

Don Freeman (Artology)

Enid Blyton (Writerism)

Equitius (Christian; Saint)

Fiacre (Christian; Saint)

Gaugericus (a.k.a. Gery; Christian; Saint)

Gerard of Gallinaro and His Companions (Christian)

Great Quackini (Muppetism)

Jim Lee (Artology)

John Henry Newman (Church of England)

Leila (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Mick Foley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Morris Weiss (Artology)

Philomena (Christian; Saint)

Puck Fair (Irish Fertility Festival; Everyday Wicca)

Rakish Bandhan 2022 (Hindusim) [Last day of Śrāvaṇa]

Rum Quaffing Day (Pastafarian)

Sidhe (Place of Peace; Celtic Book of Days)

Susanna (Christian; Saint)

Taurinus of Évreux (Christian; Saint)

Tiburtius and Chromatius (Christian; Martyrs)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [32 of 53]

Prime Number Day: 223 [48 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Abyss (Film; 1989)

Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury (Novel; 1959)

After Dark, My Sweet, by Jim Thompson (Novel; 1955)

Almost Human (TV Series; 2013)

American Graffiti (Film; 1973)

Atypical (TV Series; 2017)

C’est Chic, by Chic (Album; 1978)

Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke (Novel; 1953)

Corduroy, by Don Freeman (Children’s Book; 1968)

Dangerous Minds (Film; 1995)

Danny Deckchair (Film; 2004)

Doug (Animated TV Series; 1991)

Down to Earth, by Jimmy Buffett (Album; 1970)

Food for Feeding’ (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Free Ride, by The Edgar Winter Group (Song; 1973)

A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles US Film; 1964)

The Harmony of the World, by Paul Hindemith (Opera; 1957)

Henpecked (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Hey, Soul Sister, by Train (Song; 2009)

His Better Elf (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1958)

His Hare Raising Tale (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Hypnotic Eyes (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Le Freak, by Chic (Song; 1978)

I Left My Heart in San Francisco, by Tony Bennett (Song; 1962)

In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (Anime Film; 2017)

The Life of Emile Zola (Film; 1938)

The Magicians, by Lev Grossman (Novel; 2009)

Need You Know, by Lady Antebellum (Song; 2009)

Orphan’s Benefit (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Party in the U.S.A., by Miley Cyrus (Song; 2009)

Pete’s Dragon (Film; 2016)

Popeye Makes a Movie (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Puppet Love (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1944)

The Psychedelic Experience, by Timothy Leary (Science Book; 1964)

The Ren & Stimpy Show (Animated TV Series; 1991)

The Replacements (Film; 2000)

Rugrats (Animated TV Series; 1991)

Runaway Brain (Disney Cartoon; 1995)

The Screwdriver (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1941)

Step Up (Film; 2006)

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, by Pam Adams (Children’s Book; 1973)

3:47 EST, by Klaatu (Album; 1976)

Two-Headed Giant (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

The View (TV Talk Show; 1997)

A Walk in the Clouds (Film; 1995)

What If…? (Animated TV Series; 2021)

You Beat Me To the Punch, by Mary Wells (Song; 1962)

Today’s Name Days

Klara, Susanna (Austria)

Jasminka, Jasna, Klara, Suzana (Croatia)

Zuzana (Czech Republic)

Herman (Denmark)

Sanna, Sanne, Susanna, Suusi (Estonia)

Sanna, Sanni, Susanna, Susanne (Finland)

Claire, Gilberte, Suzanne (France)

Klara, Susanne (Germany)

Efpious (Greece)

Tiborc, Zsuzsanna (Hungary)

Chiara, Lelia, Susanna (Italy)

Liega, Olga, Zita (Latvia)

Klara, Ligija, Visalgas, Visvilė, Zuzana (Lithuania)

Tarald, Torvald (Norway)

Aleksander, Herman, Ligia, Lukrecja, Włodzimierz, Włodziwoj, Zula, Zuzanna (Poland)

Zuzana (Slovakia)

Clara, Susana (Spain)

Susanna (Sweden)

Susanna (Ukraine)

Laila, Layla, Leila, Leilani, Lela, Lelia, Nayeli (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 224 of 2024; 142 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 32 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 8 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Av 5784

Islamic: 5 Safar 1446

J Cal: 14 Purple; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 29 July 2024

Moon: 41%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 27 Dante (8th Month) [Byron]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 53 of 94)

Week: 2nd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 21 of 31)

[char1ottee]

Tokyo culture🗼

Tokyo has many museums. In Ueno Park, there is the Tokyo National Museum, the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional Japanese art; the National Museum of Western Art and Ueno Zoo. Other museums include the Artizon Museum in Chūō; the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Odaiba; the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida, across the Sumida River from the center of Tokyo; the Nezu Museum in Aoyama; and the National Diet Library, National Archives, and the National Museum of Modern Art, which are near the Imperial Palace.

Tokyo has many theaters for performing arts. These include national and private theaters for traditional forms of Japanese drama. Noteworthy are the National Noh Theatre for noh and the Kabuki-za for Kabuki. Symphony orchestras and other musical organizations perform modern and traditional music. The New National Theater Tokyo in Shibuya is the national center for the performing arts, including opera, ballet, contemporary dance and drama. Tokyo also hosts modern Japanese and international pop, and rock music at venues ranging in size from intimate clubs to internationally known areas such as the Nippon Budokan

The Sanja Festival in Asakusa

Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo. Major events include the Sannō at Hie Shrine, the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine, and the biennial Kanda Festivals. The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. Annually on the last Saturday of July, an enormous fireworks display over the Sumida River attracts over a million viewers. Once cherry blossoms bloom in spring, many residents gather in Ueno Park, Inokashira Park, and the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden for picnics under the blossoms.

Harajuku, a neighborhood in Shibuya, is known internationally for its youth style, fashion and cosplay.

In November 2007, Michelin released their first guide for fine dining in Tokyo, awarding 191 stars in total, or about twice as many as Tokyo's nearest competitor, Paris. As of 2017, 227 restaurants in Tokyo have been awarded (92 in Paris). Twelve establishments were awarded the maximum of three stars (Paris has 10), 54 received two stars, and 161 earned one star.

In popular culture

As the largest population center in Japan and the site of the country's largest broadcasters and studios, Tokyo is frequently the setting for many Japanese movies, television shows, animated series' (anime), web comics, light novels, video games, and comic books (manga). In the kaiju (monster movie) genre, landmarks of Tokyo are usually destroyed by giant monsters such as Godzilla and Gamera.

Tokyo is also a popular foreign setting for non-Japanese media. Some Hollywood directors have turned to Tokyo as a backdrop for movies set in Japan. Postwar examples include Tokyo Joe, My Geisha, Tokyo Story and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice; recent examples include Kill Bill, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Lost in Translation, Babel, Inception, The Wolverine and Avengers: Endgame.

Japanese author Haruki Murakami has based some of his novels in Tokyo (including Norwegian Wood), and David Mitchell's first two novels (number9dream and Ghostwritten) featured the city. Contemporary British painter Carl Randall spent 10 years living in Tokyo as an artist, creating a body of work depicting the city's crowded streets and public spaces.

[lana-khong]

There is no destruction after construction, because construction is destruction

I often pass in front of a red wall, which stands out from the rest of the former Censier’s campus. Becoming the third place Cesure, I never have the occasion to enter into this building. But when I found out that it will be hosting Formula Bula, the comic book’s international festival of Paris, I see the opportunity to discover this place. The event lasts three days, and I decide to go to it on Sunday the 22th September, which is the last day. Among all the books and posters that are exposed, I am disturbed by a destroyed project’s introductory page spread on the floor.

At Formula Bula’s festival, 2024

First, I expect this is a sheet of paper that fell from a stand. But it is an element of a meticulous scenography. It presents Roots’f Roof, two illustrated fanzines of the artist François De Jonge. The project’s presentation consists of the spread of many illustrations on seven tables. On the highest table, there are the two fanzines, attached together with a chain. I flip through them, and I am amazed by the amount of details of the plants that are illustrated. There is almost no text in the pages, and there is no need for it because the images are sufficient in themselves to tell a story and deliver emotions. There are only plants drawn with precision, and the consequence is that we don’t know where to look. Pages after pages, the illustrations take us through unknown territory to discover it. Ink blackens the blank paper in a way that it seems we are in a luxuriant jungle. I look at this amount of details with an admiring gaze, but they also give me the impression of being in an oppressive aera. The atmosphere is heavy, almost dystopian.

Installation of Roots’f Roof (François De Jonge, 2024)

After Formula Bula’s festival, I check François De Jonge’s other works, and I am really taken with his illustration’s style. I can describe it as a wealth of details which build a scenery while destroying it because of these same details. The information is scrambled and that we don’t know how to start to view the drawing, and this is something which enthrals me. Even if I discover this artist this month, this drawing’s style is not unknown to me. Actually, I am already a fan of Akira’s illustrations, a cyberpunk’s manga published from 1982 to 1990. This dystopian story takes place in the future Tokyo, becoming a concrete forest. It is the wealth of details that shows the destruction of the city and gives to it all the power of this chaos. It consists of the fusion of the city's metal and concrete with living organs, which the details express very well. I also think about some Brian Chippendale’s and Gary Panter’s works.

Other François de Jouge’s works

Katsuhiro Ōtomo (author, illustrator), Akira, 1882-1990

Brian Chippendale, Puke Force, 2012

Gary Panter, Jimbo in Purgatory, 2004

This illustration’s style seems to be linked to punk for all the artists I presented in this article. There is no need of color, the black ink is an ornament by itself. Adolf Loos, for whom the ornament is a crime, would hate these illustrations because there are too many details. Or he would like them in a certain way, because they illustrate the dystopia that he fights against. But without this ornament’s work, the drawing would not have the same resonance, it would not have the same meaning. To me, it is extremely pleasant to get lost in the details. This illustration’s style is as oppressive as it causes the curiosity to discover these worlds : does the ornament allow the emergence of a new environment, or its destruction ?

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.11

Holidays

Alcatraz Day

Annual Medical Check-Up Day

Border Guard Day (Turkmenistan)

Brother's Day

Builder’s Day (Former USSR Nations)

Burry Man Parade Day (Scotland)

Cheech and Chong Day (San Antonio, Texas)

Chris Hemsworth Day

Constitution Day (Anguilla)

Day of the Latvian Freedom Fighters (Latvia)

Deimos and Phobos Discovery Day (Moons of Mars)

Dog Days of Summer end

811 Day

Fair Day (Puck Fair, Day 2; Ireland)

Festival of Happy Feet

Fiesta de Santa Clara (New Mexico)

Flag Day (Pakistan)

Freethinkers Day

Gay Uncles Day (a.k.a. Guncles Day)

Global Kinetic Sand Day

Green Bay Packers Day

Health Center Staff Appreciation Day

Heroes' Day (Zimbabwe)

Hip Hop Celebration Day

Hug a Tiny Day

Ingersoll Day

Inula Day (French Republic)

Koomu Alezer’i (Elder Scrolls)

Mountain Day (Japan)

National Align Your Teeth Day

National Canine Companion Graduation Day

National Day of Civic Hacking

National Face Mask Day

National Hip Hop Day

National Minority Day (Pakistan)

National Safe Digging Day

Navy Day (Bulgaria)

Nutritionist Day (Mexico)

Play in the Sand Day

Presidential Joke Day

Roller Rink Day

Son’s and Daughter’s Day

SOS Day

Veterinary Workers Day (Ukraine)

Watts Riots Anniversary Day (Los Angeles)

WIT Brag Day

World Krill Day

World Steelpan Day (Trinidad & Tobago)

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Fufu Day

National Bakewell Tart Day (UK)

National Instant Coffee Day

National Panini Day

National Raspberry Bombe Day

National Raspberry Tart Day

Independence & Related Days

Balochistan (from UK, 1947) [unrecognized]

Chad (from France, 1960)

Ebenthal (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Penang (Ceded to the British by Rajah of Kedah; 1786)

2nd Sunday in August

Bagel Day [2nd Sunday]

Children’s Day (Chile) [2nd Sunday]

Day of Cantabria (Spain) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Brazil, Samoa) [2nd Sunday]

Gay Uncles Day [2nd Sunday]

Melon Day (Turkmenistan) [2nd Sunday]

National Day [2nd Sunday]

Spirit of ’45 Day [2nd Sunday]

Victory Day (Rhode Island) [2nd Sunday]

V-J Day (a.k.a. Victory Day) [2nd Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 11 (2nd Full Week of August)

Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Week]

National Health Center Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Week]

National Resurrect Romance Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Full Week]

National Smile Week (thru 8.17) [2nd Full Week]

Festivals Beginning August 11, 2024

Beacon Sloop Club Corn Festival (Beacon, New York)

Bludfest (Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)

Carytown Watermelon Festival (Richmond, Virginia)

Comiket [Comic Market] (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 8.12]

Czech Heritage Festival (Bechyn, Minnesota)

Hugo Awards (Glasgow, Scotland)

Italian American Festival (Akron, Ohio) [thru 8.13]

Kadayawan Festival (Davao City, Philippines) [thru 8.18]

Montrose Blueberry Festival (Montrose, Michigan) [thru 8.18]

Oslo Jazzfestival (Oslo, Norway) [thru 8.17]

Feast Days

Alexander the Charcoal-Burner (Christian; Martyr)

Alex Haley (Writerism)

Ancestor Day III (Pagan)

Andre Dubus II (Writerism)

Athracht (a..k.a. Attracta or Araght; Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Blaan (a.k.a. Blane; Christian; Saint)

Byron (Positivist; Saint)

Clare of Assisi (Christian; Saint)

Clare Foley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Claude Joseph Vernet (Artology)

Day Honoring Oddudua (a.k.a. Mother of All Gods; Santeria)

Don Freeman (Artology)

Enid Blyton (Writerism)

Equitius (Christian; Saint)

Fiacre (Christian; Saint)

Gaugericus (a.k.a. Gery; Christian; Saint)

Gerard of Gallinaro and His Companions (Christian)

Great Quackini (Muppetism)

Jim Lee (Artology)

John Henry Newman (Church of England)

Leila (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Mick Foley Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Morris Weiss (Artology)

Philomena (Christian; Saint)

Puck Fair (Irish Fertility Festival; Everyday Wicca)

Rakish Bandhan 2022 (Hindusim) [Last day of Śrāvaṇa]

Rum Quaffing Day (Pastafarian)

Sidhe (Place of Peace; Celtic Book of Days)

Susanna (Christian; Saint)

Taurinus of Évreux (Christian; Saint)

Tiburtius and Chromatius (Christian; Martyrs)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [32 of 53]

Prime Number Day: 223 [48 of 72]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

The Abyss (Film; 1989)

Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury (Novel; 1959)

After Dark, My Sweet, by Jim Thompson (Novel; 1955)

Almost Human (TV Series; 2013)

American Graffiti (Film; 1973)

Atypical (TV Series; 2017)

C’est Chic, by Chic (Album; 1978)

Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke (Novel; 1953)

Corduroy, by Don Freeman (Children’s Book; 1968)

Dangerous Minds (Film; 1995)

Danny Deckchair (Film; 2004)

Doug (Animated TV Series; 1991)

Down to Earth, by Jimmy Buffett (Album; 1970)

Food for Feeding’ (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Free Ride, by The Edgar Winter Group (Song; 1973)

A Hard Day’s Night (Beatles US Film; 1964)

The Harmony of the World, by Paul Hindemith (Opera; 1957)

Henpecked (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Hey, Soul Sister, by Train (Song; 2009)

His Better Elf (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1958)

His Hare Raising Tale (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Hypnotic Eyes (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Le Freak, by Chic (Song; 1978)

I Left My Heart in San Francisco, by Tony Bennett (Song; 1962)

In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (Anime Film; 2017)

The Life of Emile Zola (Film; 1938)

The Magicians, by Lev Grossman (Novel; 2009)

Need You Know, by Lady Antebellum (Song; 2009)

Orphan’s Benefit (Disney Cartoon; 1934)

Party in the U.S.A., by Miley Cyrus (Song; 2009)

Pete’s Dragon (Film; 2016)

Popeye Makes a Movie (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1950)

Puppet Love (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1944)

The Psychedelic Experience, by Timothy Leary (Science Book; 1964)

The Ren & Stimpy Show (Animated TV Series; 1991)

The Replacements (Film; 2000)

Rugrats (Animated TV Series; 1991)

Runaway Brain (Disney Cartoon; 1995)

The Screwdriver (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1941)

Step Up (Film; 2006)

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, by Pam Adams (Children’s Book; 1973)

3:47 EST, by Klaatu (Album; 1976)

Two-Headed Giant (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

The View (TV Talk Show; 1997)

A Walk in the Clouds (Film; 1995)

What If…? (Animated TV Series; 2021)

You Beat Me To the Punch, by Mary Wells (Song; 1962)

Today’s Name Days

Klara, Susanna (Austria)

Jasminka, Jasna, Klara, Suzana (Croatia)

Zuzana (Czech Republic)

Herman (Denmark)

Sanna, Sanne, Susanna, Suusi (Estonia)

Sanna, Sanni, Susanna, Susanne (Finland)

Claire, Gilberte, Suzanne (France)

Klara, Susanne (Germany)

Efpious (Greece)

Tiborc, Zsuzsanna (Hungary)

Chiara, Lelia, Susanna (Italy)

Liega, Olga, Zita (Latvia)

Klara, Ligija, Visalgas, Visvilė, Zuzana (Lithuania)

Tarald, Torvald (Norway)

Aleksander, Herman, Ligia, Lukrecja, Włodzimierz, Włodziwoj, Zula, Zuzanna (Poland)

Zuzana (Slovakia)

Clara, Susana (Spain)

Susanna (Sweden)

Susanna (Ukraine)

Laila, Layla, Leila, Leilani, Lela, Lelia, Nayeli (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 224 of 2024; 142 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 32 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 8 (Ding-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 7 Av 5784

Islamic: 5 Safar 1446

J Cal: 14 Purple; Sevenday [14 of 30]

Julian: 29 July 2024

Moon: 41%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 27 Dante (8th Month) [Byron]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 53 of 94)

Week: 2nd Full Week of August

Zodiac: Leo (Day 21 of 31)

[koyamapress]

Thanks to the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s Book Fund, Fall sees us return to the site of the debut of TRIO MAGNUS: Equally Superior (our first ever book): Japan! We will be in Japan as a part of the TCAF contingent and will be attending both the Kaigai Manga Festa / Tokyo International Comic Festival and C.A.T. — Comic Art Tokyo Festival. Stay tuned for a full report of our adventures in early December as we round out our anniversary year!

Kaigai Manga Festa / Tokyo International Comic Festival 23 November 2017 | 11AM-4PM at Tokyo Big Site, Tokyo, Japan Check out the Kaigai page for further details

C.A.T. — Comic Art Tokyo Festival 25 November 2017 | 11AM-8PM at Temple University, Tokyo, Japan Check out the Facebook event page for further details

Kickass Annie by the Kickass Annie creator Aaron Leighton!

[yurimother]

Yuricon Celebrates 20 Years with Free Virtual Event

Yuricon, the organization founded by Erica Friedman with the mission of bringing together fans of lesbian images in Japanese animation and comics together is celebrating its 20 year anniversary. The organization announced that it would be holding a free virtual event discussing global Yuri fandom on August 14, 2021.

The event, which is based on a similar event held during the Mechademia International Academic Conference, will see three panelists discussing Yuri and its fandom across the globe. The event is free but there is limited space. Attendees can register online at https://www.yuricon.com/essays/yuricon20th/

The speakers to be featured during the event are:

Verena Maser:

Verena has a PhD in Japanese studies and work primarily as translator of manga and anime from Japanese to German, including Citrus and Yuri is My Job.

No Place for Lilies? Yuri’s Rocky Road to Germany

Ever since the 1990s, manga have seen enormous success in Germany, easily outselling any other form of graphic storytelling. Yet to this day, not all genres are created equal. While fantasy and boys love are thriving, yuri has had to face far more challenges and seen far fewer successes. My talk will trace these challenges both from the angle of the overall market situation, as well as from a linguistic angle, as I myself have translated several yuri manga to German.Nevertheless, their translation remains a challenge as stories often rely on shared tropes like being set at an all-girls’ school and featuring an “older sister” type paired with a “younger sister” type. Such tropes often have to be rewritten or even erased in translation. This includes the term “yuri” itself, as the lily symbolism is not understood by all audience members and German publishers prefer the term “Girls Love”.

James Welker

James Welker is a professor at the University of Kanagawa. He researches queer cultures, feminisms, & popular culture, in modern & contemporary Japan, including Boy’s Love in Japan/Asia. He is an editor of and contributor to Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia  (Collaboration)  2021   Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, and Queer Voices from Japan.

The Yuri Genre in Its Transnational Permutations

Yuri, that is, manga, light novels, anime, and related media depicting female–female romantic intimacy, has always been a transnational genre. In addition to the genre’s early twentieth century roots in always already transnational Japanese girls fiction (shōjo shōsetsu), Yuricon was an early Yuri event.While yuri remains a relatively minor genre domestically and globally compared with BL, yuri subevents have been held within larger fan events in Europe, North America, and Latin America, and yuri-only events have been held regularly in both Taiwan and Korea for the past several years. Drawing on participant observation since 2013, in this presentation I discuss yuri-only events in Japan (Girls Love Festival), Korea (Our Lily Festival), and Taiwan (ComicHorizon), yuri subevents in Canada (Yuri North and Yurithon), and other fan events at which yuri works have been present including Tokyo’s Comic Market and Comitia, and BL events in Southeast Asia. I focus on ways that yuri has been transformed in various contexts, as well as links to local LGBTQ cultures.

Moderator – Erica Friedman

Erica Friedman is the Founder of Yuricon. Erica has written about Yuri for Japanese literary journal Eureka,  Animerica magazine, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,  Dark Horse, and contributed to Forbes, Slate, Huffington Post, Hooded Utilitarian, and The Mary Sue online. She has written news and event reports, interviews Yuri creators and reviews Yuri anime, manga and related media on her blog Okazu since 2002 and is the author of By Your Side: The First 100 Year of Yuri Anime and Manga, coming out in June 2022 from Journey Press.

Love Online – Global Yuri Fandom Speaks For Itself

The term yuri, is both descriptive and divisive, shaped by creators, publishers and by different audiences within fandom. The story of yuri as a genre is the story of a global online fandom, which absorbed, adapted, and regurgitated Japanese words and concepts associated with the genre. Non-Japanese, English-language yuri fandom developed relatively cut off from both Japanese otaku communities and LGBTQ communities in Japan and abroad.

I will trace the arguments, the compromises, the failures and triumphs of the growth of this fandom from a first-person perspective, from small groups online in the late 1990s, through the development of yuri as a manga and anime genre legitimized by publishers and creators in both the West and Japan, by identifying and discussing the terms that were and are being used by that fandom.

Yuricon was founded in 2000 under the name AniLesboCon, with the mission of bringing together fans of lesbian narrative in Japanese animation and comics to discuss and create stories that represented an entire continuum of lesbian experience. In 2001, the community was rebranded as Yuricon, to better represent the mission: to celebrate Yuri in anime and manga and to remember the ties to the lesbian community through the Yurizoku.  Yuricon community members participate in panels, write articles, and conduct lectures all over the world, in order to expand the global Yuri community.

YuriMother is not affiliated with the event of Yuricon, however, Nicki "YuriMother' Bauman will be in attendance at the event.

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Colombo’s Bookstore

Sri Lanka didn’t have as many bookstores as Japan. It had about three times as many used car shops as in Japan, I believed. But there were few bookstores.

In the first place, be them used car stores or bookstores, the shops were by no means big. This country was a tiny island with a national territory smaller than Japan’s, so lands that had forest reserves of local nature in them and real estate were probably valuable. If anything, I had an affinity for the place. But it was a pity that the bookstores were so few.

I often spent my time alone nowadays, so above all else, I appreciated having anything to read. I wasn’t the bookworm type, but there were just too many book-selling places in Japan. If you were getting off at some notable station in Tokyo, no matter which one it was, there would be at least one bookstore within walking distance. I also had a fresh memory of Saul-san telling me that “Japanese people really like their books”.

A street vendor was selling scissors in front of a bookstore in the sunlit streets of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Why did he decide to sell scissors by the road? And right before my eyes, a person on a bus riding slowly down the avenue was buying a pair of scissors from him. Did they have some bag that they wanted to cut open no matter what or something? I had no idea, but anyway, this was a world that operated with standards different from Japan’s, in which supply and demand were apparently well-established.

With glass doors, the bookstore had a magnificent structure and felt nice and cold when I stepped in. The study reference books were on the second floor, so I went up the arched stairs that parted to left and right, searching for the shelf that I was aiming for.

There you are.

I took three books from it, and when I went to the checkout, the female clerk, dressed in a sari, asked me, “Is this all?” in English. The official languages ​​of this country were English, Sinhala and Tamil, with English being spoken by both Sinhalese and Tamils. I believed she was Sinhalese. Because the sari was not a Hindu but a Buddhist thing.

“These are volumes 2, 3 and 4. What about volume 1?”

“I bought just volume 1 a while ago. And it was really good, so I also wanted to learn the rest from this book series.”

“So you’re studying Sinhala. That’s rare. Where are you from?”

“I’m Japanese,” I answered.

What I had come to buy was a Sinhala language study reference book. It was a book for people who couldn’t read Sinhala, so it was, of course, written in English. Even so, I had read it a little before traveling. I also found and purchased a Sinhala language study reference book written by a Japanese scholar, which I was able to buy in Japan.

Regardless, it was kind of useless for my range of understanding, so I almost felt like throwing it away before I could learn anything. I told Saul-san about this when asking him for advice, at which he burst into laughter and then bought me a red paperback book.

A Sinhala book written in English.

The letters were very large and there weren’t too many words. As for the quality of the paper, on the bright side, it was straw paper, and on the downside, it was gray and flimsy. But the contents were very easy to understand and the insides were firmly packed.

This reference book taught Sinhala letters first, as well as the meaning and pronunciation of each one. From that point onward, I couldn’t be more thankful for it. Sinhala was a language written with a Sinhalese alphabet, after all. In addition to vowels such as A, I, U, E and O, it jumped on to a variety of consonants and other symbols that stuck one letter to another like joints. It explained each of them carefully so that even people who didn’t know Sinhalese at all could understand them. This book solved a large percentage of the problem that I had stumbled upon, namely “I can’t find the commonalities and differences between letters, so I don’t know how to tell them apart and can’t organize them in my head”. I was grateful for that. There was no need to ask Richard-sensei for a foreign language course via international call all the time anymore.

That being said, there were many letters in Sinhala. Meaning that there were several pronunciations. You’d think that the Japanese syllabary was cute in comparison. Not all of it could be explained in one book, and the lectures were extended over to the second volume, but Saul-san had bought only one book, in case it didn’t suit me. The results were as could be seen. It was the same kind of joy as reading one book from a novel series and then buying all the sequels.

Learning languages was fun. By the looks of it, learning how to link them directly to communication was what worked for me.

“But can’t you live in Sri Lanka while speaking English, even if you don’t understand Sinhala? Are you on a business trip?”

“Something like that, but if possible, I’d like to talk to people using a Sri Lankan language. I’m Japanese, but I’ve had the experience of being a bit happy when someone from a foreign country spoke in Japanese to me, so now I guess it’s my turn.”

“You have so much free time, huh!”

I had no words to reply. The clerk and I burst into laughter without any reserve and finished the checkout. As I went down the arched stairs, I found a space where they were selling festival tools, stationery and picture books. Many of the same books were arranged on two sides.

Or so I thought.

But that was apparently not it. What I thought to be the exact same large-format picture books were the English version and the Sinhala version. You’d miss it if you were distracted because the pictures were the same, but the picture book, which was probably a Sri Lankan version of a “Japanese folktale”-like work, was published in two languages.

“Y’see, the ones who buy these are parents who want their kids to learn English. ‘Cause speaking English comes in handy.”

When I turned around, the clerk who had been at the cash register on the second floor was right behind me. It seemed she had come to see me off. Apparently, the cashier on the first floor called out to her, telling her to go back to work or something like that, to which she replied at length, and the two exchanged laughs. Maybe the people in this bookstore were cheerful, as not all Sri Lankans expressed their emotions so openly.

“This one is the ‘Mean Old Man’. This one is ‘The Perahera Festival’.”

“Can even a small child understand it well?”

“Of course. This book is big so that it’s easy to read to them.”

Indeed, it was a thin picture book of a size larger than A4. In Japan, it wouldn’t be strange for it to have an anime or manga-style art, but the art of this one had an ethnic touch to it, perhaps to match the contents. The colors were rich, the mean old man was drawn in a vile yet comical way, and the blue gradation of the feathers in a bird’s tail looked tasteful.

“Hum, excuse me. Can I buy this too?”

“You’re going to buy it? Do you have children?”

“I’ll read it myself.”

The clerk laughed again, but after a moment, she made a straight face and told me that it certainly might be perfect for studying. I bought the picture book at the cash register on the first floor. Either way, it cost about 500 Sri Lankan rupees, which was about 600 Japanese yen, but in the eyes of this country’s people, that was probably quite a high price. This was a world of 10 rupees for a loaf of bread and 3 rupees for a cup of tea. Thinking like that, I could understand why there weren’t many bookstores and why there were so few people here.

You can’t eat or drink books. They’re not daily necessities either, like clothes, scissors or toothbrushes. Being able to spend money on such things as if it were obvious must be a sign of wealth. My country was all the more disagreeable for having bookstores everywhere. I’d never thought about it that way.

As I took the receipt and said, “Stūtiyi”, which was “thank you” in Sinhala, the black-haired woman smiled, looked at my face and said in Japanese, “Thank you very much. We will be awaiting your return.”

“Amazing!”

“Thanks.”

And so, she told me that her husband had been working with sheet metal in Ibaraki, Japan, for a while. Her pronunciation of the words “Ibaraki” and “sheet metal” was really good. Apparently, her husband had started up a small company with the money he had earned as an immigrant worker and was its president.

With her waving a hand at me and telling me to be careful, I left the store.

Even though it was early spring, the sunlight in Colombo felt like that of midsummer in Japan. But I was growing quite fond of this glare. Everyone walking in the streets was wearing mid-sleeves, and if they were so inclined, beach sandals too, but the humidity wasn’t as high as in Japan, so I could think that, indeed, this was also spring. The white of the temple flowers blooming along the road was refreshing as well. They reminded me just a little bit of cherry blossoms. And from this street, I could clearly see my favorite landmark.

Colombo Tower, a tower that had the lotus flower as its motif.

It was a Tokyo Tower-like landmark, not visible from my base camp, the mountain town of Kandy, and although the shape was grandiose, it was still under construction and nobody could enter it. However, one day – I didn’t know whether that would be while I was still in Sri Lanka or after I had settled somewhere else, but – I definitely wanted to climb that. I would.

May I be a little more proficient in the language of this country than I am now by then, and if possible, may I get to have small talk in the tower.

With a modest goal and a new book, I treaded the way to Saul-san’s office.

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マイリトルゴート / My Little Goat - Trailer from Tomoki Misato on Vimeo.

■Website mylittlegoat.tumblr.com/

2018.3 Director, Animator : Tomoki Misato Music : Daisuke Kawashima Sound Design : Kyosuke Nagano, Masumi Adachi Cast : Aimi Fukuhara, Kaori Yamashita, Mizuho Misato

監督・アニメーション：見里朝希 音楽：川島大輔 音響：永野響介、安達万純 声の出演：福原愛未、山下香織、見里瑞穂 東京藝術大学大学院映像研究科アニメーション専攻　第9期修了作品 ©2018 Tomoki MISATO / Tokyo University of the Arts

■Awards■ 2020.01 "Hollywood Blood Horror Festival" Best Animated (America) 2019.12 "Paris International Fantastic Film Festival" Golden Eye 2019 (France) 2019.10 "ANNY Best of Fest (Animation Night New York)" Grand Prize Winner (America) 2019.08 "23rd The Fantasia International Film Festival" Audience Silver Award for Best Animated Short Film (Canada) 2019.06 "12th Fest Anča International Animation Festival 2019" Special Mention (Slovakia) 2019.06 "SHORT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL & ASIA 2019" the Official Competition Japan & Governor of Tokyo Award（Japan） 2019.04 "Animation Festival O!PLA" Golden Bundle Award (1st place) (Poland) 2019.04"31 FILMFEST DRESDEN" ARTE Short Film Prize, Golden Horsemen of the Youth Jury (Germany) 2019.04 "15th edition of Cortoons Gandia" Best Graduation Short Animated Film (Spain) 2019.03 "Festival International de Film d'Animation de Meknes" Best Student Film Award (Morocco) 2019.03 "22nd Japan Media Arts Festival"　Jury Selections (Japan) 2019.01 "the 2019 La Picasa International Film Festival" BEST FILM FICILP 2019, BEST ANIMATED MOVIE award (Argentina) 2018.12 "24th Campus Genius Contest" ART DIVISION PLATINUM, ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION PLATINUM (Japan) 2018.12 "12th Fukui Film Festival" Animation Grandprix (Japan) 2018.11 "ASFF As Film Festival 2018" Animation Now! Award, Idea Academy Award (Italy) 2018.11 "20th DigiCon6 ASIA" Gold Special July Award (Japan) 2018.11 "New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival 2018" Jury's special Award (Japan) 2018.10 "TIAF Taichung International Animation Festival" Young Critics Award (Taiwan) 2018.10 "14th Kichijoji Animation Film Festival" Grand Prix, STUDIO4℃ Award (Japan) 2018.10 "20th DigiCon6 ASIA" Japan Gold Award (Japan) 2018.10 "StopTrik IFF 2018" Maribor Grand Prix (Slovenia) 2018.09 "ReAnima Festival" Best Student Film (Norway) 2018.09 "Indie-AniFest 2018" Audience Choice of ASIA ROAD 'Star of Festival' (Korea) 2018.09 "Turku Animated Film Festival" Tough Eye Award (Finland) 2018.08 "ASK? Film Festival" ASK? Award (Japan) 2018.03 "12th TOHO Cinemas Students Film Festival" Grand Prix Short Animation (Japan)

■Official selection■ 2019.06 "the 2019 Toronto Indie Horror Fest"(Canada) 2019.05 "ANIFILM 2019"(Czech Republic) 2019.03 "TOKYO ANIME AWARD FESTIVAL 2019"(Japan) 2019.03 "GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (FICG)"(Mexico) 2019.03 "11th Tehran International Animation Festival"(Iran) 2019.02 "ANIMAC International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia"(Spain) 2019.01 "2019 COURTS MAIS TRASH Festival"(Belgium) 2018.10"The 7th Annual Kuandu International Animation Festival (KDIAF)" (Taiwan) 2018.10 "TAF Thessaloniki Animation Festival 2018" (Greece) 2018.10 "KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2018" (Holland) 2018.09 "The International Animation Festival + Agora" (Greece) 2018.09 "Anim!Arte 2018" International Students Maxi (Brazil) 2018.09 "2nd Chaniartoon 2018 - International Comic & Animation Festival" (Greece) 2018.09 "Festival Stop Motion Montreal 2018" Independent film competition (Canada) 2018.09 "Sendai Short Film Festival" NEW TALENT COMPETITION (Japan) 2018.08 "LINOLEUM Festival" Scary Tales / Horror showcase (Ukraine) 2018.09 "BUT Film Festival 2018" The shortlist of films (Holland) 2018.08 "Strasburg Film Festival ? 2018" (United States) 2018.06 "Animafest Zagreb 2018" Short Films Competition (Croatia)

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Winners announced for the 2019 Eisner Awards

The winners were announced last night for the 2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.

Tom King and Mitch Gerads, partners on the Mister Miracle series from DC, took home five awards between them. John Allison’s Giant Days and The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang also took home multiple awards.

The Eisner Awards also inducted 10 people into the Hall of Fame last night: the judges chose Jim Aparo, June Tarpé Mills, Dave Stevens and Morrie Turner, while voters chose José Luis García-López, Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Wendy and Richard Pini, and Bill Sienkiewicz to join the class of 2019.

Other awards given out last night included the The Bill Finger Excellence In Comic Book Writing Award, which was presented to Mike Friedrich and the late E. Nelson Bridwell, and the Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, which went to Lorena Alvarez.

The 2019 recipients of the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award were Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, for his work on Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico, and comic artist Tula Lotay, AKA Lisa Wood, for creating the UK-based Thought Bubble Festival. And La Revisteria Comics in Argentina won the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award.

You can see all the Eisner winners below, in bold.

Best Short Story

“Get Naked in Barcelona,” by Steven T. Seagle and Emei Olivia Burrell, in Get Naked (Image)

“The Ghastlygun Tinies,” by Matt Cohen and Marc Palm, in MAD magazine #4 (DC)

“Here I Am,” by Shaun Tan, in I Feel Machine (SelfMadeHero)

“Life During Interesting Times,” by Mike Dawson (The Nib), https://thenib.com/greatest-generation-interesting-times

“Supply Chains,” by Peter and Maria Hoey, in Coin-Op #7 (Coin-Op Books)

“The Talk of the Saints,” by Tom King and Jason Fabok, in Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot

Beneath the Dead Oak Tree, by Emily Carroll (ShortBox)

Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise, by Jeff Lemire and Emi Lenox (Dark Horse)

No Better Words, by Carolyn Nowak (Silver Sprocket)

Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310, by Chip Zdarsky (Marvel)

The Terrible Elisabeth Dumn Against the Devils In Suits, by Arabson, translated by James Robinson (IHQ Studio/ Image)

Best Continuing Series

Batman, by Tom King et al. (DC)

Black Hammer: Age of Doom, by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston, and Rich Tommaso (Dark Horse)

Gasolina, by Sean Mackiewicz and Niko Walter (Skybound/Image)

Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julaa Madrigal (BOOM! Box)

The Immortal Hulk, by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, and Ruy José (Marvel)

Runaways, by Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka (Marvel)

Best Limited Series

Batman: White Knight, by Sean Murphy (DC)

Eternity Girl, by Magdalene Visaggio and Sonny Liew (Vertigo/DC)

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, by Mark Russell, Mike Feehan, and Mark Morales (DC)

Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

X-Men: Grand Design: Second Genesis, by Ed Piskor (Marvel)

Best New Series

Bitter Root, by David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Green (Image)

Crowded, by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein, and Ted Brandt (Image)

Gideon Falls, by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Image)

Isola, by Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl (Image)

Man-Eaters, by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (Image)

Skyward, by Joe Henderson and Lee Garbett (Image)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)

Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer, by James Kochalka (Top Shelf/IDW)

Petals, by Gustavo Borges (KaBOOM!)

Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths, by Graham Annable (First Second)

This Is a Taco! By Andrew Cangelose and Josh Shipley (CubHouse/Lion Forge)

Tiger Vs. Nightmare, by Emily Tetri (First Second)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12)

Aquicorn Cove, by Katie O’Neill (Oni)

Be Prepared, by Vera Brosgol (First Second)

The Cardboard Kingdom, by Chad Sell (Knopf/Random House Children’s Books)

Crush, by Svetlana Chmakova (JY/Yen Press)

The Divided Earth, by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13–17)

All Summer Long, by Hope Larson (Farrar Straus Giroux)

Gumballs, by Erin Nations (Top Shelf/IDW)

Middlewest, by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona (Image)

Norroway, Book 1: The Black Bull of Norroway, by Cat Seaton and Kit Seaton (Image)

The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang (First Second)

Watersnakes, by Tony Sandoval, translated by Lucas Marangon (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

Best Humor Publication

Get Naked, by Steven T. Seagle et al. (Image)

Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal (BOOM! Box)

MAD magazine, edited by Bill Morrison (DC)

A Perfect Failure: Fanta Bukowski 3, by Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics)

Woman World, by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Anthology

Femme Magnifique: 50 Magnificent Women Who Changed the World, edited by Shelly Bond (Black Crown/IDW)

Puerto Rico Strong, edited by Marco Lopez, Desiree Rodriguez, Hazel Newlevant, Derek Ruiz, and Neil Schwartz (Lion Forge)

Twisted Romance, edited by Alex de Campi (Image)

Where We Live: A Benefit for the Survivors in Las Vegas, edited by Will Dennis, curated by J. H. Williams III and Wendy Wright-Williams (Image)

Best Reality-Based Work

All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir, by Michael Kupperman (Gallery 13)

All the Sad Songs, by Summer Pierre (Retrofit/Big Planet)

Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman, by Box Brown (First Second)

Monk! by Youssef Daoudi (First Second)

One Dirty Tree, by Noah Van Sciver (Uncivilized Books)

Best Graphic Album—New

Bad Girls, by Alex de Campi and Victor Santos (Gallery 13)

Come Again, by Nate Powell (Top Shelf/IDW)

Green Lantern: Earth One Vol. 1, by Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman (DC)

Homunculus, by Joe Sparrow (ShortBox)

My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Sabrina, by Nick Drnaso (Drawn & Quarterly)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint

Berlin, by Jason Lutes (Drawn & Quarterly)

Girl Town, by Carolyn Nowak (Top Shelf/IDW)

Upgrade Soul, by Ezra Claytan Daniels (Lion Forge)

The Vision hardcover, by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, and Michael Walsh (Marvel)

Young Frances, by Hartley Lin (AdHouse Books)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, adapted by Ari Folman and David Polonsky (Pantheon)

“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection, adapted by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

Out in the Open by Jesús Carraso, adapted by Javi Rey, translated by Lawrence Schimel (SelfMadeHero)

Speak: The Graphic Novel, by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll (Farrar Straus Giroux)

To Build a Fire: Based on Jack London’s Classic Story, by Chabouté (Gallery 13)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material

About Betty’s Boob, by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau, translated by Edward Gauvin (Archaia/BOOM!)

Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, by Pénélope Bagieu (First Second)

Herakles Book 1, by Edouard Cour, translated by Jeremy Melloul (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

Niourk, by Stefan Wul and Olivier Vatine, translated by Brandon Kander and Diana Schutz (Dark Horse)

A Sea of Love, by Wilfrid Lupano and Grégory Panaccione (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia

Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition, by Tsutomu Nihei, translated by Sheldon Drzka (VIZ Media)

Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, by Inio Asano, translated by John Werry (VIZ Media)

Laid-Back Camp, by Afro, translated by Amber Tamosaitis (Yen Press)

My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder, by Nie Jun, translated by Edward Gauvin (Graphic Universe/Lerner)

Tokyo Tarareba Girls, by Akiko Higashimura (Kodansha)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips

Pogo, vol. 5: Out of This World At Home, by Walt Kelly, edited by Mark Evanier and Eric Reynolds (Fantagraphics)

Sky Masters of the Space Force: The Complete Sunday Strips in Color (1959–1960), by Jack Kirby, Wally Wood et al., edited by Ferran Delgado (Amigo Comics)

Star Wars: Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 3, by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, edited by Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/IDW)

The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Words and Worlds of Herbert Crowley, by Justin Duerr (Beehive Books

Thimble Theatre and the Pre-Popeye Comics of E. C. Segar, edited by Peter Maresca (Sunday Press)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books

Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman Deluxe Edition, edited by Paul Levitz (DC)

Bill Sienkiewicz’s Mutants and Moon Knights… And Assassins… Artifact Edition, edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet (Drawn & Quarterly)

Madman Quarter Century Shindig, by Mike Allred, edited by Chris Ryall (IDW)

Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise Gallery Edition, edited by Joseph Melchior and Bob Chapman (Abstract Studio/Graphitti Designs)

Will Eisner’s A Contract with God: Curator’s Collection, edited by John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Writer

Alex de Campi, Bad Girls (Gallery 13); Twisted Romance (Image)

Tom King, Batman, Mister Miracle, Heroes in Crisis, Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC)

Jeff Lemire, Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Doctor Star & the Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows, Quantum Age (Dark Horse); Descender, Gideon Falls, Royal City (Image)

Mark Russell, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, Green Lantern/Huckleberry Hound, Lex Luthor/Porky Pig (DC); Lone Ranger (Dynamite)

Kelly Thompson, Nancy Drew (Dynamite); Hawkeye, Jessica Jones, Mr. & Mrs. X, Rogue & Gambit, Uncanny X-Men, West Coast Avengers (Marvel)

Chip Zdarsky, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel Two-in-One (Marvel)

Best Writer/Artist

Sophie Campbell, Wet Moon (Oni)

Nick Drnaso, Sabrina (Drawn & Quarterly)

David Lapham, Lodger (Black Crown/IDW); Stray Bullets (Image)

Nate Powell, Come Again (Top Shelf/IDW)

Tony Sandoval, Watersnakes (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker (First Second)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team

Matías Bergara, Coda (BOOM!)

Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC)

Karl Kerschl, Isola (Image)

Sonny Liew, Eternity Girl (Vertigo/DC)

Sean Phillips, Kill or Be Killed, My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies (Image)

Yanick Paquette, Wonder Woman Earth One, vol. 2 (DC)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)

Lee Bermejo, Batman: Damned (DC)

Carita Lupatelli, Izuna Book 2 (Humanoids)

Dustin Nguyen, Descender (Image)

Gregory Panaccione, A Sea of Love (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

Tony Sandoval, Watersnakes (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)

Jen Bartel, Blackbird (Image); Submerged (Vault)

Nick Derington, Mister Miracle (DC)

Karl Kerschl, Isola (Image)

Joshua Middleton, Batgirl and Aquaman variants (DC)

Julian Tedesco, Hawkeye, Life of Captain Marvel (Marvel)

Best Coloring

Jordie Bellaire, Batgirl, Batman (DC); The Divided Earth (First Second); Days of Hate, Dead Hand, Head Lopper, Redlands (Image); Shuri, Doctor Strange (Marvel)

Tamra Bonvillain, Alien 3 (Dark Horse); Batman, Doom Patrol (DC); Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Multiple Man (Marvel)

Nathan Fairbairn, Batman, Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman Earth One, vol. 2 (DC); Die!Die!Die! (Image)

Matt Hollingsworth, Batman: White Knight (DC): Seven to Eternity, Wytches (Image)

Matt Wilson, Black Cloud, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); The Mighty Thor, Runaways (Marvel)

Best Lettering

David Aja, Seeds (Berger Books/Dark Horse)

Jim Campbell, Breathless, Calexit, Gravetrancers, Snap Flash Hustle, Survival Fetish, The Wilds (Black Mask); Abbott, Alice: Dream to Dream, Black Badge, Clueless, Coda, Fence, Firefly, Giant Days, Grass Kings, Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass, Low Road West, Sparrowhawk (BOOM); Angelic (Image); Wasted Space (Vault)

Alex de Campi, Bad Girls (Gallery 13); Twisted Romance (Image)

Jared Fletcher, Batman: Damned (DC); The Gravediggers Union, Moonshine, Paper Girls, Southern Bastards (Image)

Todd Klein— Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald (Dark Horse); Batman: White Night (DC); Eternity Girl, Books of Magic (Vertigo/DC); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest (Top Shelf/IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/ Journalism

Note: There was a tie in this category

Back Issue, edited by Michael Eury (TwoMorrows)

The Columbus Scribbler, edited by Brian Canini, columbusscribbler.com

Comicosity, edited by Aaron Long and Matt Santori,  www.comicosity.com

LAAB Magazine #0: Dark Matter, edited by Ronald Wimberley and Josh O’Neill (Beehive Books)

PanelxPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, panelxpanel.com

Best Comics-Related Book

Comic Book Implosion: An Oral History of DC Comics Circa 1978, by Keith Dallas and John Wells (TwoMorrows)

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists, by Martha H. Kennedy (University Press of Mississippi)

The League of Regrettable Sidekicks, by Jon Morris (Quirk Books)

Mike Grell: Life Is Drawing Without an Eraser, by Dewey Cassell with Jeff Messer (TwoMorrows)

Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography—Beyond the Fantasy, by Florent Gorges, translated by Laure Dupont and Annie Gullion (Dark Horse)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, by Aaron Kashtan (Ohio State University Press)

Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies, by Marc Singer (University of Texas Press)

The Goat-Getters: Jack Johnson, the Fight of the Century, and How a Bunch of Raucous Cartoonists Reinvented Comics, by Eddie Campbell (Library of American Comics/IDW/Ohio State University Press)

Incorrigibles and Innocents, by Lara Saguisag (Rutgers Univeristy Press)

Sweet Little C*nt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet, by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Uncivilized Books)

Best Publication Design

A Sea of Love, designed by Wilfrid Lupano, Grégory Panaccione, and Mike Kennedy (Magnetic/Lion Forge)

The Stan Lee Story Collector’s Edition, designed by Josh Baker (Taschen)

The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Worlds of Herbert Crowley, designed by Paul Kepple and Max Vandenberg (Beehive Books)

Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise Gallery Edition, designed by Josh Beatman/Brainchild Studios/NYC (Abstract Studio/Graphitti Designs)

Will Eisner’s A Contract with God: Curator’s Collection, designed by John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Digital Comic

Aztec Empire, by Paul Guinan, Anina Bennett, and David Hahn, www.bigredhair.com/books/Aztec-empire/

The Führer and the Tramp, by Sean McArdle, Jon Judy, and Dexter Wee, http://thefuhrerandthetramp.com/

The Journey, by Pablo Leon (Rewire), https://rewire.news/article/2018/01/08/rewire-exclusive-comic-journey/

The Stone King, by Kel McDonald and Tyler Crook (comiXology Originals)  https://cmxl.gy/Stone-King

Umami, by Ken Niimura (Panel Syndicate), http://panelsyndicate.com/comics/umami

Best Webcomic

The Contradictions, by Sophie Yanow, www.thecontradictions.com

Lavender Jack, by Dan Schkade (WEBTOON), https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/lavender-jack/list?title_no=1410&page=1

Let’s Play, by Mongie (WEBTOON), https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/letsplay/list?title_no=1218&page=1

Lore Olympus, by Rachel Smythe, (WEBTOON), https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/list?title_no=1320&page=1

Tiger, Tiger, by Petra Erika Nordlund, (Hiveworks) http://www.tigertigercomic.com/

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Eisner Winners 2019

Best Graphic Album—New My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Best Single Issue/One-Shot Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310, by Chip Zdarsky (Marvel)

Best Continuing Series Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julaa Madrigal (BOOM! Box)

Best Limited Series Mister Miracle, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)

Best New Series Gideon Falls, by Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino (Image)

Best Short Story-“The Talk of the Saints,” by Tom King and Jason Fabok, in Swamp Thing Winter Special (DC)

Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 8)-Johnny Boo and the Ice Cream Computer,by James Kochalka (Top Shelf/IDW)

Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12)-The Divided Earth, by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)

Best Publication for Teens (ages 13–17)-The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang (First Second)

Best Humor Publication-Giant Days, by John Allison, Max Sarin, and Julia Madrigal (BOOM! Box)

Best Anthology-Puerto Rico Strong, edited by Marco Lopez, Desiree Rodriguez, Hazel Newlevant, Derek Ruiz, and Neil Schwartz (Lion Forge)

Best Reality Based Work-Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman, by Box Brown (First Second)

Best Graphic Album—New My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips (Image)

Best Graphic Album—Reprint-The Vision hardcover, by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, and Michael Walsh (Marvel)

Best Adaptation from Another Medium-“Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection, adapted by Junji Ito, translated by Jocelyne Allen (VIZ Media)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material-Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, by Pénélope Bagieu, translated by Montana Kane (First Second)

Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia-Tokyo Tarareba Girls, by Akiko Higashimura (Kodansha)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Strips-Star Wars: Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 3, by Archie Goodwin and Al Williamson, edited by Dean Mullaney (Library of American Comics/IDW)

Best Archival Collection/Project—Comic Books-Bill Sienkiewicz’s Mutants and Moon Knights… And Assassins... Artifact Edition,edited by Scott Dunbier (IDW)

Best Writer-Tom King, Batman, Mister Miracle, Heroes in Crisis, Swamp Thing Winter Special(DC)

Best Writer/Artist-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker (First Second)

Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team-Mitch Gerads, Mister Miracle (DC)

Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (interior art)-Dustin Nguyen, Descender (Image)

Best Cover Artist (for multiple covers)-Jen Bartel, Blackbird (Image); Submerged (Vault)

Best Coloring-Matt Wilson, Black Cloud, Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine (Image); The Mighty Thor, Runaways (Marvel)

Best Lettering-Todd Klein, Black Hammer: Age of Doom, Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald (Dark Horse); Batman: White Night (DC); Books of Magic, Eternity Girl (Vertigo/DC); The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest (Top Shelf/IDW)

Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism (tie)-Back Issue, edited by Michael Eury (TwoMorrows)PanelxPanel magazine, edited by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Best Comics-Related Book

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists, by Martha H. Kennedy (University Press of Mississippi)

Best Academic/Scholarly Work-Sweet Little C**t: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet, by Anne Elizabeth Moore (Uncivilized Books)

Best Publication Design-Will Eisner’s A Contract with God: Curator’s Collection, designed by John Lind (Kitchen Sink/Dark Horse)

Best Digital Comic-Umami, by Ken Niimura (Panel Syndicate)

Best Webcomic-The Contradictions, by Sophie Yanow

Hall of Fame

Judges’ Choices:

Jim Aparo

June Tarpé Mills

Dave Stevens

Morrie Turner

Voted in:

Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

Jenette Kahn

Paul Levitz

Wendy & Richard Pini

Bill Sienkiewicz

Bob Clampett

Humanitarian Award

Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico

Lisa Wood, Thought Bubble Festival

Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing

E. Nelson Bridwell

Mike Friedrich

Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award

Lorena Alvarez, writer/artist of Hicotea and Nightlights

Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award

La Revisteria Comics, Alejandro Gonzalez, Buenos Aires, Argentina

[recentanimenews]

Ojamajo Doremi Anime Film Hits Japanese Theaters in Summer of 2020

  Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Ojamajo Doremi anime series (known as Magical DoReMi in English), a new anime theatrical film entitled Majo Minarai o Sagashite ("Searching for Witch Apprentices") is heading to Japanese theaters in Summer of 2020, and now a special talk and screening event featuring the film's staff has been scheduled for the 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival.

    The "Magical Doremi 20th Anniversary Event in TIFF New Movie Looking for Magical Doremi Special Talk & Screening" event will be held at the Roppongi Hills Arena venue on October 29, 2019, and it features producer Seki Hiromi, directors Junichi Sato and Yū Kamatani, screenwriter Midori Kuriyama, and character designer / chief animation director Yoshihiko Umakoshi as guests. The special event is free to the public.

In addition to revealing more details about the upcoming film (including character visuals and the story outline), the special talk event will also feature screenings of the Magical Doremi and Magical Doremi 3 The Secret of The Frog Stone films as well as episode 12 of the fifth season of the Magical Doremi . For more information, including the schedule, please check out the official English language event page here.

  Source: Comic Natalie

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Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[girls-can-get-married]

Sørine & Carina, Cosplay in Love | Copenhagen, Denmark

Sørine And Carina met in High School. One the slacker, the other the teacher’s pet.  They didn’t realize they had much in common until they ran into each other years later in a comic book shop.  The two quickly connected over Manga and comics, and became fast friends. They were soon sharing a real passion for cosplaying (Costume and roleplaying: the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game, especially one from the Japanese genres of manga and anime).

Cosplay.  Work.  Travel.  Fun.  And then we fell in love...

Their cosplay and love connection created magic the world was waiting for and soon they found themselves competing.  The duo were invited to the Tokyo International Film Festival, and placed fourth in The World Cosplay summit.

The Proposal

Disneyland, Tokyo 2014...  Before their departure, Carina packed two sets of Harry Potter themed engagement rings in her luggage.  In front of Cinderella's Castle, Carina asked a Disneyland employee to take a video of the two, which seemed like a usual request for the cosplay duo.  To Sørine's surprise and joy, this was no ordinary video.  As Carina asked, Sørine's "Yes!" brought tears to the eyes of Disney onlookers everywhere.  Their two year engagement gave them plenty of planning time!  

Planning

From start to finish the couple planned each intricate detail with their playful personalities ringing true.  Guest invitations were designed as "Acceptance Letters" from Hogwarts.  The couple's getaway car was a Ford Anglia (similar to the flying car in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) "We know... we are huge nerds," the couple exclaims when describing the details.  They turned to a treasured cosplay friend and supporter at Shinji Costumes and Tailoring who designed and crafted their beautiful wedding dresses.  Every detail was true to their passions, their love for one other and their lives together.

"After having been showered in rice we were picked up in a blue Ford Anglia (yes, like the the Harry Potter car) to the Botanical Gardens just five minutes from the church for the official wedding photos.”  

https://www.lgbtweddings.com/sorine--carina-real-wedding-cosplay.html

​“The day was absolutely perfect.” The couple took each other’s names and are now Mrs. And Mrs. Gradholt Karlsson. They Lived Happily Ever After... The couple spent their honeymoon in Japan. They spent three days in Tokyo and five days in Nikko, a small, countryside village.  The honeymoon ended, celebrating with friends from Mexico, at The World Cosplay Summit.

[newsintheshell]

I Figli del Mare, il film arriverà in home video dal 18 marzo

La suggestiva versione animata del manga di Daisuke Igarashi arriva in Italia finalmente anche in Blu-ray e DVD!

Dopo averlo proiettato nei nostri cinema grazie alla collaborazione con Nexo Digital, Dynit ha comunicato oggi che “I Figli del Mare”, il suggestivo film d’animazione tratto dall’omonimo manga di Daisuke Igarashi, edito nel nostro paese da Planet Manga, arriverà in home video dal prossimo 18 marzo (e non dal 25 come segnalato nel video promo).

Presentata all’Annecy International Animation Film Festival e proiettata in anteprima anche in occasione dello scorso Lucca Comics & Games, la pellicola della durata di 111 minuti è da considerarsi un vero e proprio colossal, che ha richiesto ben cinque anni di lavorazione, centinaia di animatori e migliaia di disegni. Di seguito trovate il promo per l’uscita in DVD e Blu-ray del film e i vari dettagli sull’edizione italiana.

I CONTENUTI EXTRA:

Interviste esclusive a Daisuke Igarashi (autore del manga), Ayumu Watanabe (regista) e Joe Hisaishi (musiche), Test Gallery, Teaser e trailer in versione originale – Trailer cinematografici italiani – D-Trailers – Booklet di 32 pagine - Poster cinematografico italiano – Cartolina da collezione

Ruka, liceale ribelle, viene esclusa dall'attività del club per l'intera durata delle vacanze scolastiche. La ragazza decide quindi di visitare il padre all’acquario dove lavora e qui farà uno strano incontro con Umi (mare), un ragazzo straniero che sembra cresciuto fra strani e straordinari segreti. Affascinata dal suo modo di nuotare che lo fa sembrare un uccello in volo, Ruka si trova, suo malgrado, a far parte di un complesso ingranaggio più grande di lei. Nel contempo, tutto il mondo è sconvolto da un'anomalia mai vista prima: tutti i pesci stanno scomparendo.

Questa prima edizione limitata in slipcover è prenotabile su Amazon in Blu-ray a 29,99 €, mentre in DVD a 23,24 €.

IL CAST:

Ruka: Mana Ashida / Vittoria Bartolomei

Umi: Hiiro Ishibashi / Giulio Bartolomei

Sora: Airu Kubozuka / Alessio Puccio

Anglade: Win Morisaki / Francesco Fabbri

Dede: Sumiko Fuji / Giorgina Pazi

Il lungometraggio è stato diretto da Ayumu Watanabe (Uchuu Kyoudai - Fratelli nello Spazio, Dopo la Pioggia) presso Studio 4°C (Berserk - L'epoca d'oro, Harmony) e a supervisionarne le animazioni e il character design è stato Kenichi Konishi (Tokyo Godfathers, La storia della principessa splendente). La colonna sonora è invece firmata da Joe Hisashi (Ponyo sulla scogliera, Si alza il vento), storico collaboratore dello Studio Ghibli.

Autore: SilenziO))) (@s1lenzi0)

[FONTE]

[ljaesch]

Three Manga Nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival's Top Prize

Three Manga Nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival’s Top Prize

The 45th Angoulême International Comics Festival has announced its nominees for Best Comic, which include Yarō Abe’s Shinya Shokudō (The Midnight Diner, La Cantine de Minuit), Nagabe’s The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (L’Enfant et le Maudit: Siúil, a Rún), and Keigo Shinzō’s Tokyo Alien Bros. manga. This year’s Angoulême Festival runs from January 25-28, 2018. The festival launched in…

[torontocomics]

TCAF Announces 2019 International Guests!

More than 20 countries’ cartooning communities represented at this year’s Festival

FEBRUARY 15, TORONTO: The Toronto Comic Arts Festival proudly announces its second round of Guest for the 2019 Festival, focusing on the international cartooning community! Building on TCAF’s history of cartooning and cultural exchanges, the 2019 Festival will be the most international yet, with more than 20 countries represented at the two-day exhibition on May 11 and 12, at Toronto Reference Library and surrounding neighbourhood.

Focusing on adult literary and popular works across genres including memoir, historical fiction, fantasy, and yes, even superheroes, these creators will help focus the eyes of the world on Canada, this May, with English- and French-Language translations of their greatest works available for North American readers.

As always, TCAF will also feature a number of programs during the week of the Festival and on the primary exhibition days, designed to highlight these international works and draw connections between stories the world over. Look for the full range of programming in late March, but do remember to save the date for TCAF’s special collaboration with the European Union National Institutes for Culture, which will take place at the Alliance Française Toronto on the evening of Thursday, May 9th.

Now, keep reading to be introduced to some of this year’s International Guests!

Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie: UK-based creative team Kieron Gillen and Jamie Mckelvie first came to the public’s attention with Phonogram, published by Image Comics. The two then teamed on Marvel’s Young Avengers, before starting their next original project: The Wicked + The Divine, published by Image. After more than 8 volumes, this epic series concludes this May, and Gillen and McKelvie will attend TCAF in celebration of the series’ conclusion. Kieron Gillen is also the co-creator of DIE by Image Comics (with Stephanie Hans), and the writer of various properties for Marvel including Star Wars, Thor, and the X-Men. Jamie McKelvie has drawn numerous series and created some of the era’s best superhero costume designs, including Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, America Chavez, X-Men Blue Team, and more.

Stephanie Hans: Based in France, Stephanie Hans is a seasoned illustrator, and the co-creator of the new Image Comics-published, tabletop roll playing game-inspired DIE, with writer Kieron Gillen. She works as an illustrator for publishers in France and America. Hans attends TCAF with the support of The French Embassy to Canada.

Junji Ito: Master of modern manga horror, Junji Ito hails from Tokyo, Japan, and is best-known for his works Uzumaki, Tomie, GYO, and The Enigma of Amigara Fault, all published by VIZ Media. Junji Ito has also created a new original poster work for TCAF 2019, which will be printed and made available at the event. Junji Ito will attend TCAF in support of his new book Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, and with the support of VIZ Media.

Jason: The Norwegian cartoonist Jason has become internationally acclaimed for his anthropomorphic, clear-line style, across a wide-range of graphic novels including Hey, Wait…, Tell Me Something, I Killed Adolf Hitler, The Left Bank Gang, and many, many more. A frequent and welcome guest of TCAF, Jason attends the festival in 2019 in support of his new graphic novel O Josephine!, and with the support of publisher Fantagraphics, and NORLA, The Norwegian Literature Association.

Nora Krug: A German-American author and illustrator, Krug’s drawings and visual narratives have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, and more. Krug attends TCAF 2019 in support of her newest book Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, about WWII and her own German family history. Debuting in late 2018, the book was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2018, The Guardians 50 Biggest books of 2018, and NPR Book of the year, among many other accolades. Krug will appear at programming on both days of TCAF, as well as a special event partnering with the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre on the afternoon of Friday May 10th.Krug appears at TCAF with the support of the Goethe Institut of Toronto.

These Featured Guests join the amazing array of international creators, artist collectives, and publishers who are already-announced for TCAF 2019, including from Canada, the US, and Mexico, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, and Sweden! 

For more information, visit torontocomics.com