GOING TO BROOKLYN FEST THIS WEEKEND

I'll be in New York this coming weekend-- flying our Thursday for a getaway trip with my GF for her birthday. I will be stopping by the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Saturday, and slinging comics for a while.

I don't have my own table this time, but will be bringing comics printed at Mission Risoplex (my Risograph print shop). You can pick up the comics at these tables:

• Koyama Press table (U16-17): SF #1 by Ryan Cecil Smith and Thickness #3!
• PictureBox table (D1-2): Glacier/Glazier #1 by Jonny Negron

(click for big versions of each)

 

I'll be hanging out at the Koyama Press table with Michael DeForge, and wearing my Same Hat t-shirt!  Come say hello!

Details!

BCGF, noon - 7pm at

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church

275 North 8th Street

Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

NEW RISOGRAPH ZINES FROM JAPAN MAKE ME WEAK (WITH JEALOUSY)

Yesterday afternoon I was perusing the TACO che blog (as I do when I'm looking for some inspiration) and came across this beautiful Risograph-printed comics zine, 土星 (Dosei - "Saturn").

This is the 4th issue of Dosei (The HOW-TO issue), and includes a number of exciting cartoonists and graphic designers. I'm not familiar with any of these artists, but have a hit list of folks to Google and track down (and share with the Same Hat Community in the coming weeks). 

Check out these beautiful, two-color spreads from the issue; this stuff is extremely inspiring to me (and makes me feel bad about all the work I've done so far):

The previous issue, Dosei #3,  was also printed on Risograph and is equally lush. Here are some (smaller) spreads from the TACO che shop:

I'll work on more posts/details about Dosei and other self-published zines from Japan. These are our Risograph/zine peers and I wanna work on connecting the loose circuit of creators in the US and Euope with these folks over in Japan.

UPDATE:  Thanks to the internet sleuthing of Niki, we now have a listing of artists published in Dosei and their personal sites!

有延和磨

http://www5.pf-x.net/~arinobe-kazuma/

　

アレッサンドロ・ビオレッティ

http://alessandrobioletti.com/

　 

池谷なつみ

http://claydot.jimdo.com/

　

石山さやか

http://drowingdrowing.blog88.fc2.com/

鈴木菜々

http://suzukinana.ohuda.com

　 

タコ25

http://taco25.com/

　

田雜芳一

http://www.yoshikazutazo.com/

　

玉川桜

http://konnichiwasayonara.blog36.fc2.com/

　

なかじまかえ

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/addgift0427/

　

長瀬泰理

http://nagase.iiyudana.net/

　 

junpei

http://www.junpppei.com/

　

ひぐちよしの

http://bluegold22.web.fc2.com/

　 

ひしだようこ

http://clap-clap.oops.jp/

　 

Hironaka

http://allgoodspinario.blogspot.com/

　

藤原佳代子

http://kayopiso.net/

　

白身さかな

http://yoriuchiyoriko.web.fc2.com/ 

　 

松尾モノ

http://2style.jp/gm0327/

　

高旗将雄

http://masaox2006.xxxxxxxx.jp/

　

石垣裕太郎

http://stonekid.cho-chin.com/

QUICK PICS FROM KINOKUNIYA

I have a confession (of sorts) to make to the Same Hat community: Until this weekend, I think I hadn't bought/read any new, non-Tezuka manga in the last seven or eight months?!

A travesty, right? As folks who follow my other random projects have gathered, I've been focusing a lot of my free time on creating zines and anthologies, hanging out with minicomics folks, and printing comics for friends at my little Risograph print shop. Perhaps it's a sign I'm getting older/lamer/jaded, but I simply got majorly burnt out on manga for a while there, and am just now coming back to the fold.

In re-starting Same Hat, I've been working to catch back up and rectify this... Sunday, I stopped by my local Kinokuniya, and picked up a series about which I heard great things:  Flowers of Evil by Shuzo Oshimi. I read the first volume last night and found it fun, deceptively simple and... psychologically disturbing. I'm stoked to read the next book tonight.

Do you have a suggestion for a manga I need to read, that came out in 2012?  Please school me, my friends!

Okay, so while shopping I snapped a few pics around Kinokuniya of things I like:

Magic Point and River's Edge, by the incredible Kyoko Okazaki. Her amazing body-horror/gender mindfuck comic HELTER SKELTER was licensed this summer by Vertical... it's one of my all-time favorite manga, and I'm stoked to get to read it in non-illegal, Vertical-ized format soon!

The reprints from 2010 of the late Satoshi Kon's manga, "Opus". I love the design of these two soft covers. Detailed scans here:

Ad for Usamaru Furuya's ongoing web serial "Bokuran no Hikari KURABU", on the back of the anthology Manga Erotics F. Pages from the series are online via the Japanese webcomic portal Poco Poco:

[Upcoming SH! posts: details on AkoTako, Poco Poco, and working with Gengoroh Tagame to publish his first ever licensed translation in English!]

MORE MANGA PAGES FROM CTJ

Here's a quick follow-up for folks that haven't dug into my overview post on the great Concerned Theatre Japan, which ran from 1969 to 1973.

I separated out the first five pages from each of the three manga in that issue, arguably the first manga ever translated into English! If you dig these teasers, you can download the entire issue below as a convenient PDF:

Sakura Illustrated ("Sakura Gaho") by Akasegawa Genpei [1971]
 
 
 

Red Eye ("Akame") by Shirato Sampei [1969]

 
 

The Stopcock ("Nejishiki") by Tsuge Yoshiharu [1969]

 
 
[CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PDF]

FAVORITE SAME HAT SISTER TUMBLRS?

While SAME HAT (the blog) has been on temporary hiatus, SAME HAT TUMBLR has continued going strong. I have some theories (capital-T "THEORIES") about TumblrGeneration and the Tumblrfication of how youth discoveries artifacts of cultural history -- theories that come out mostly once I've had a few glasses of whisky. All that considered, and aside, Tumblr is one of the most interesting and jarring places for discovering new artists (duh, right?).

Rather than attempt a list of ALL TUMBLRS SPANNING ALL ASSORTED INTERESTS INCLUDING-BUT-NOT-LIMITED-TO COMICS (exhausting and unfocused!), I thought It'd be more fun to toss up a quick post of our favorite "SAME HAT-esque" Tumblrs we are following and enjoying. I'll start with a few that feel like "siblings" to Same Hat... if you don't mind adding your faves to the comments, I'll go ahead and build out a community list!!

NOTE: Special points to Tumblrs that actually scan/post new, additive materials to the Tumblrverse. Tumblrs that ONLY EVER RT images are weak/lame.

(To note, I see posts from all of these fleetingly via Dashboard and haven't read all their posts, so apologies if I accidentally linked to gross/intense stuff here!)

1. AANNIIMMEE

http://aanniimmee.tumblr.com/

2. Feh Yes Vintage Manga

http://fehyesvintagemanga.tumblr.com/

3. Goth Summer

http://gothsummer.tumblr.com

4. Vagabonded Life

http://vagabondedlife.tumblr.com/

5. Corporal Steiner

http://corporalsteiner.tumblr.com

6. Acid Eater

http://acid-eater.tumblr.com/

7. Otomblr

http://otomblr.tumblr.com/

8. Fuck Yeah, Hideshi Hino!

http://fuckyeahhideshihino.tumblr.com/

9. Conspirators of Pleasure
http://conspirators-of-pleasure.tumblr.com/

10. HIMIZU

http://hi-mi-zu.tumblr.com/

11. panzer

http://de-maupin.tumblr.com/

12. TigerRoll

http://sinyasiki.tumblr.com/

13. Cave of the Troglodyte
http://troglodytespacebird.tumblr.com/

14. chi-mi-do-ro

http://neonburg.tumblr.com/

15. Tokyo Scum Brigade

http://tokyoscum.tumblr.com/

16. Kurutta

http://kurutta.tumblr.com/

17. Space Leech

http://spaceleech.tumblr.com/

18. Gurafiku

http://gurafiku.tumblr.com/

[PS: The other things about the SAME HAT TUMBLR is that you can ask any random question you might have and I'll probably answer it! Just click Ask me anything! and submit.]