Yatta! - I am now one of the very few gajin/foreigner manga ka to have his work available in Japanese.
Mobile phone or Keitai manga as its called is very big business here in Japan, with $20 million dollars worth of downloads in 2007. A Japanese version of my 'Lafcadio Hearns Japanese Ghost stories' book is now out in Japanese, in two formats. A PC downloadable version called 'Kaidan Koizumi Yakumo' (怪談小泉八雲 in Japanese). It can be seen and bought here at the Papyless web site store: http://www.papy.co.jp/act/books/1-121548/
ショーン・マイケル・ウィルソン is the Japanese katakana for my name.
Press the blog title to go there directly. Gambaru!
Also the 'Yuki-Onna' story from the book is available on Keitai (mobile phone) throughout Japan, via the NTT-Dokomo and AU systems. It can be seen on the Keitai bookshop 'Doko demo dokusyo'. どこでも読書 Which I think is this one: http://www.mobilebook.jp/mobilebook2/index.html
- Oh happy days!
The photo is of me at the Mandarake manga shop in Nakano, Tokyo. A great but 'otaku' place to find various old things of pop culture. Great finds there: 1968 special editon of GARO with manga ka YOSHIHARU TSUGE in it and the original of his famous SCREWSTYLE/NEJISHIKI story, also a rare Japanese music magazine with great photos of THE WALKER BROTHERS. aces! The only place you can see SCREWSTYLE/NEJISHIKI story in English is in the THE COMICS JOURNAL issue 250. This is a key story in the development of more mature, artistic and experimental manga. I am presently working on a text book about the GEKIGA style of manga in Japan, with an editor in Tokyo. This will be the first of its kind - with rare interviews, info and art directly from TSUGE, YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI and MASAHIKO MATSUMOTO - three of the key gekiga originators from the 1950's and 60's. Sugoii!
QUOTE TODAY:
"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
- Andre Gide
5 comments:
Omedeto! ^^
Arigato!
from 'Sorry im Saori!'
How you doing, not suprisingly saw your piece in Fukuoka now and was pleasantly suprised to see a fellow Scot.
Have to admit not yet got into the manga scene over here but there is always a first with your Iraq story, quite intrigued. Anyways if ur up in Fukuoka city anytime and fancy a beer and a chat in easy to follow scottish english drop us a mail.
Gordon
Thanks Gordon, will do that now.
The 'Fukuoka Now' bit Gordon is talking about is a magazine that has my good self in it's August issue, talking about my comic books/manga. I should post a link to it, shouldn't I? More showing off!
Ah, slight problem in contacting you Gordon - your link says that you have not chosen to publically share your profile, so i can not get through to you. Email me here please:
info@boychildproductions.co.uk
Sean
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