tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post4787499226743078787..comments2023-11-27T16:48:09.334-08:00Comments on SAME HAT!: EXCLUSIVE: TOP SHELF TO RELEASE AX ANTHOLOGY!Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175574490647908108noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-47498408419675519302009-10-05T22:09:51.674-07:002009-10-05T22:09:51.674-07:00Hi all,
the AX book is now done!
we are proofing ...Hi all,<br />the AX book is now done!<br /><br />we are proofing the pages for typos now, but all the interior art, bios and intro are done. <br /><br />- and its looking great!<br /><br />best,<br />SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-40962681533902782982009-01-19T08:26:00.000-08:002009-01-19T08:26:00.000-08:00Sorry to be silent for a while, but the AX book is...Sorry to be silent for a while, but the AX book is progressing nicely <BR/><BR/>- All 33 creators that will be featured have been selected now; amongst the pages already made into English versions is the 22 page story by Tatsumi - a wonderfully odd but understated story of big city alienation; and a well known designer has just made a great cover for the book. <BR/><BR/>Ta,<BR/>SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-43311617794259594832008-11-11T06:38:00.000-08:002008-11-11T06:38:00.000-08:00Yes, the plan is to do another book called, with t...Yes, the plan is to do another book called, with the short name of GEKIGA:ROOTS. This will examine the origins of gekiga style in the 1950's and, yes, include the other creators in the 1960's who took the style forward.<BR/>SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-3894635072385428022008-11-09T06:08:00.000-08:002008-11-09T06:08:00.000-08:00sorry that I miss something..but gekiga roots is a...sorry that I miss something..<BR/><BR/>but gekiga roots is another book coming also from top shelf??<BR/><BR/>if it is...<BR/><BR/>I hope there is a great dedication to Hiroshi Hirata and Sanpei Shirato and all the kind of explanations of the 60s with them and particulary the social ones.<BR/><BR/>saludos...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-6753341772505258522008-11-06T18:53:00.000-08:002008-11-06T18:53:00.000-08:00Hi looka - what has there been so by of SANPEI SHI...Hi looka - what has there been so by of <BR/>SANPEI SHIRATO? Right now we are focusing only on those artists wo have been IN the Japanese AX anthology over the last ten years. But SHIRATO will be mentioned in the GEKIGA: ROOTS book as a second generation gekiga artist. <BR/>SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-66252607120964628742008-11-06T18:51:00.000-08:002008-11-06T18:51:00.000-08:00Hey Henning, thanks for posting about AX in German...Hey Henning, thanks for posting about AX in Germany... the samplers are all gone, sorry. Try bidding for one on ebay in about 5 years for $100!<BR/>He he... But Top Shelf may be printing more for a spring convention before the book comes out in summer i guess. anwyay please keep supporting the AX collection, its much appreciated.<BR/>SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-52664470435078653752008-11-01T05:38:00.000-07:002008-11-01T05:38:00.000-07:00This really sounds great. I just wrote about the b...This really sounds great. I just wrote about the book on Splashcomics.de, the - if I may say so myself - leading general comic magazine in the German-language part of the internet. Do you have any idea about a publication date and price yet, or how to get my hands on a copy here in Germany?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-181000383840981062008-10-29T05:52:00.000-07:002008-10-29T05:52:00.000-07:00Hey this sounds supergreat!Could you work out that...Hey this sounds supergreat!<BR/><BR/>Could you work out that SANPEI SHIRATO gets the same treatment as Osamu Tezuka and Koike/Kojima?<BR/><BR/>We NEED some mass of output in english by him! VIZ give out those rights!LOOKAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00572300877413904267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-73537489371859995732008-10-29T01:59:00.000-07:002008-10-29T01:59:00.000-07:00Ok gang,Ive got the OK from Top Shelf to tell you ...Ok gang,<BR/><BR/>Ive got the OK from Top Shelf to tell you who will be in AX collection, so far, as an exclusive for 'Same Hat' <BR/><BR/>- Drum roll...<BR/><BR/>Akino Kondo<BR/>Minami Shinbo<BR/>Shinichi Abe <BR/>Namie Fujieda <BR/>Mitsuhiko Yoshida <BR/>Yuichi Kiriyama <BR/>Osamu Kanno <BR/>Shigehiro Okada <BR/>Yunosuke Saito <BR/>Yeong Choi <BR/>Kazuichi Hanawa <BR/>Yoshihiro Tatsumi <BR/><BR/>- any new names there?<BR/><BR/>And that's just who we have selected so far, there will be a lot more!<BR/><BR/>- SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-89328996757081651072008-10-28T18:01:00.000-07:002008-10-28T18:01:00.000-07:00great news!!that there will be Hanawa,nemoto,Tatsu...great news!!that there will be Hanawa,nemoto,Tatsumi in the book..<BR/><BR/>I forgot to say before a big congratulations for top shelf and sean of doing the job of research in manga and having these kind of book posible!<BR/><BR/>I think that this kind of book will have a lot more fame that comics underground japan!perhaps because of internet and all the feedback,forums,blogspots and things that can help this book be succesful!<BR/><BR/>It would be great to have top shelf publishing more anthologies like this or alternative mangas!<BR/><BR/>apart from this...today I was checking comics underground japan and I was seeing muddy wehara and the only thing that I have to say...is he still working??he is such an incredible artist!<BR/><BR/>who knows in the future,maybe we have the lucky of having kaze shinobu trasnlated!!one of the best,bizarre and unique style underrated artist of all japan!!<BR/><BR/>do you imagine strongest man on earth ryu in english!the scene vs jesuschrist!!just of thinking in that is mindblowing! jajajajaja<BR/><BR/>saludos to all from here!!<BR/><BR/>Have a nice day!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-28729871429825473752008-10-28T16:52:00.000-07:002008-10-28T16:52:00.000-07:00Ryan, you researched the inclusions of those artis...Ryan, you researched the inclusions of those artists in AX! Well done, glad to have you in my corner. Especially as I am pains to point out that I am NOT a manga expert... I am learning too, in the process of making this book and giving these AX/Gekiga talks.<BR/><BR/>First and foremost I am a comic book writer, who lives in Japan and can therefore work directly with Japanese manga ka and hen shu sha (editors). My Japanese partner, Asakawa, is the expert on alternative manga. My role in our partnership is as the 'gajin spokesman' and production co-ordinator for English editions of the AX and GEKIGA books. Something that I DO know a lot about, thankfully, as this will be my 14th published book, and the 6th book I've edited myself.<BR/><BR/>I have a list of contributors that ARE going to be in the AX collection so far - and yes, there will be many that have never been seen before outside of Japan... let me ask Top Shelf if I can release them to you here. Since 'Onaji boshi!' is becoming the news hub for the AX collection!<BR/><BR/>One more neat thing is that I was given the current issue of AX yesterday, issue 65. On the back is a lovely little Tatsumi drawing, with the full title of our Gekiga book noted for the first time in public:<BR/>'GEKIGA:THE ROOTS OF JAPANESE ALTERNATIVE COMICS'. The title tells you what THAT book is about: the history and development of the Gekiga style, in the words of the original creators, with plenty of rare images from the 50's and 60's. <BR/><BR/>In my talk on sunday in APE I intend to read out a few bits from a conversation between Tatsumi and Masahiko Matsumoto, from this upcoming book, in which they discuss how they came up with the gekiga style in the mid 1950's. Great stuff!Sean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-82843196357139868242008-10-28T06:59:00.000-07:002008-10-28T06:59:00.000-07:00Hey Sean!Thanks for the latest update. You're righ...Hey Sean!<BR/>Thanks for the latest update. You're right, I got a little ahead of myself. I know that Maruo was featured on the cover of AX issue 8, and Furuya on the cover of AX issue 12-- but going back I see those are just interviews and not serialized manga.<BR/><BR/>Naoto Yamakawa was serialized in EnterBrain's Comix Beam <I>not</I> AX, as you pointed out. Whoops!<BR/><BR/>That said, cool to hear that Tatsumi and Hanawa will be included. I'm excited to hear more details about which contemporary, previously-never-in-English creators will make it. Like Comics Underground Japan did (at the time), it's most exciting for me to have the anthology include not just gekiga kings (which is great) but also to introduce some weird and more recent mangaka to new readers!Ryan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-41412933276226494082008-10-28T02:24:00.000-07:002008-10-28T02:24:00.000-07:00Azraelito - thanks, please do spread the word abou...Azraelito - thanks, please do spread the word about AX collection in Argentina (and invite me over there for a convention!). Hanawa and Tatsumi will definitely be in, and probably Nemoto too (I will show a page from his 'heta-uma' AX work at this sundays talk in SF). <BR/><BR/>Ryan, sad to report that these below creators will NOT be featured in the collection, for the simple reason that they have never had any manga published in Japanese AX yet: Suehiro Maruo, Naoto Yamakawa and Usamaru Furuya.<BR/><BR/>- gomen!<BR/><BR/>SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-42593040935467923452008-10-27T15:49:00.000-07:002008-10-27T15:49:00.000-07:00greetings from argentina to all!!In the magazine t...greetings from argentina to all!!<BR/><BR/>In the magazine that I work of manga and anime in argentina I will include the Ax news as one of my favorites!!<BR/><BR/>we have to talk about this great news and start talking about creators like hanakuma,kago,maruo,tanioka,etc...and start opening minds of reading other things that dragon ball or naruto...<BR/><BR/>for me there must be stories of:<BR/><BR/>kazuichi hanawa (pleaseeeeeee...)<BR/>suehiro maruo<BR/>shintaro kago<BR/>tatsumi<BR/>tanioka<BR/>ebisu<BR/>hanakuma<BR/>takeshi nemoto <BR/><BR/>apart from this!!<BR/><BR/>keep the good work on this blog ryan talking about rare and strange manga!!<BR/><BR/>saludos...<BR/><BR/>ps: as always my englis sucks...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-86374119379714487002008-10-26T19:54:00.000-07:002008-10-26T19:54:00.000-07:00Hi again all - sorry Ryan and Rizzah if you feel '...Hi again all - sorry Ryan and Rizzah if you feel 'pantsed'. But your help is needed to make the AX collection a success! Please help out in whatever way you can. Ryan's already agreed to help me out in the APE talk, arigato. It does indeed look like 2009 is going to be 'indy manga' year! And long overdue right? <BR/><BR/>One way is that you might tell me which manga ka you would like to see in the collection. Asakawa-san and myself have not finished choosing them all yet, so room for suggestions! <BR/><BR/>Looks like we are going to have to ration the AX sampler - there will only be 100 copies. So put your names down for one now! See some of you at APE this week. I will be at the Last Gasp party on friday, sitting at the Fanfare booth 249 with Deb Aoki much of the time and AX/Gekiga talk is sunday at 5pm.<BR/><BR/>- Yoroshiku onagai shimasu!<BR/>SeanSean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-46267232693071225582008-10-26T16:47:00.000-07:002008-10-26T16:47:00.000-07:00@rizzah: yeah, I've definitely been hoping a b...@rizzah: yeah, I've definitely been hoping a book like this would come along.. it feels like the market (barring a further/total economic meltdown) is finally ready for it. As long as they are all committed to their projects, the more publishers in the indie manga game, the better. Right now we've got:<BR/>Top Shelf, Fantagraphics (bete noire #1), Last Gasp, Drawn & Quarterly, Pantheon, PictureBox, and Viz-- along with Vertical and Dark Horse to a degree. Not too shabby.<BR/>We always have to be sure to give Kudos to Creation and Blast for opening the doors early on, by the way :)<BR/><BR/>ryan!Ryan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-51319588512914248412008-10-26T16:43:00.000-07:002008-10-26T16:43:00.000-07:00@hellen: We should bring torches, storm the Top S...@hellen: We should bring torches, storm the Top Shelf booth and steal all their samplers! I feel like APE this year is going to be in-sane in the mem-brane.Ryan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-89163355119370380412008-10-26T16:42:00.000-07:002008-10-26T16:42:00.000-07:00@azraelito: I'm excited too! Oh yeah, SAKE JOCK. I...@azraelito: I'm excited too! <BR/>Oh yeah, SAKE JOCK. It's not quite at the same level as the other two books, but it's quite good you're right.<BR/><BR/>I'm really pleased to hear that you enjoyed TOKYO ZOMBIE! I know that you and I have very similar taste and sense of humor, so it means a lot to know that you liked it :) Hanakuma is fucking great, isn't he?Ryan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-6380509268429034232008-10-26T07:50:00.000-07:002008-10-26T07:50:00.000-07:00oh wow. i feel like i just got pantsed! i know how...oh wow. i feel like i just got pantsed! i know how you feel ryan. why couldn't i be translating/editing this!! well, maybe next time. hopefully this will really open the market to interest in more full-length books like tokyo zombie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-68249572284553186842008-10-24T18:28:00.000-07:002008-10-24T18:28:00.000-07:00@Sean,Thanks for the update and sorry for the mist...@Sean,<BR/>Thanks for the update and sorry for the mistake, updating now :)<BR/><BR/>We are all looking forward to hearing more about this book in the coming months!Ryan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-42452038028663766482008-10-24T18:26:00.000-07:002008-10-24T18:26:00.000-07:00Opps, forgot to say: "his first English-language m...Opps, forgot to say: "his first English-language manga was published this past summer."<BR/><BR/>- Ryan, it should be that my first JAPANESE language work was published in summer, as a 'keitai manga' (download to cell phone format). Manga onto cell phones, as you may know, is very big business here in Japan - $75 million worth of downloads last year. Though they were not all of MY book sadly!Sean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-85658167631154566722008-10-24T18:20:00.000-07:002008-10-24T18:20:00.000-07:00hi all,This is Sean Michael Wilson, the co-editor ...hi all,<BR/><BR/>This is Sean Michael Wilson, the co-editor of the upcoming AX book. Thank you for your excited interest in the book - everyone involved is very fired up about it. In fact I just had two important distribution/media emails about it today, in terms of those key people who can promote the book and make it a sales success. Please all play your part in helping the book be known - arigato gozaimasu!<BR/><BR/>I will write a longer reply soon answering your various points!Sean Michael Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11509500685747479546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-9909853402597296172008-10-24T17:59:00.000-07:002008-10-24T17:59:00.000-07:00dont forget about sake jock a great boook from fan...dont forget about sake jock a great boook from fantagraphics about underground manga!!<BR/><BR/>with a lot of YASUJI TANIOKA...some kind of peter bagge japanese!!<BR/><BR/>pd:<BR/><BR/>I forgot hanawa please more!!the story of comics undeground japan is great!!and doing some time or something like that in english that is about his time in prison is brilliant!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-14211805597632087452008-10-24T17:48:00.000-07:002008-10-24T17:48:00.000-07:00INCREDIBLE..I cant wait for this!!I hope hanakuma,...INCREDIBLE..<BR/><BR/>I cant wait for this!!<BR/><BR/>I hope hanakuma,maruo,kago and ebisu!!<BR/><BR/>I have a lot of maruo in spanish but i know in english they dont have too much!!<BR/><BR/>saludos from argentina..<BR/><BR/>pd: I bought tokyo zombie INCREDIBLE!!great to have hanakuma in english!!I will do a review of that book in magazine that we do in argentina about manga and anime!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-7152411273767978522008-10-24T14:45:00.000-07:002008-10-24T14:45:00.000-07:00dude I'm SUPER excited!!! I'm totally snatching o...dude I'm SUPER excited!!! I'm totally snatching one of those samplers next weekendhelllllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02560398142488138797noreply@blogger.com