tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110834532024-03-10T12:13:08.995-07:00SAME HAT!Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01175574490647908108noreply@blogger.comBlogger601125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-42067669795518921672013-05-16T17:12:00.000-07:002013-05-16T17:13:58.439-07:00THE STRANGE TALE OF PANORAMA ISLAND: Now Available!Guys, oh my god Guysssssss. GUYS!<br />
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<strong>The Strange Tale of Panorama Island</strong> by Suehiro Maruo is now on sale and available direct from the publisher, Last Gasp!!!<br />
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<a href="http://www.lastgasp.com/pre/panoramaisland/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO ORDER</a><br />
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The book is hefty and sexy, and over-sized at 6" x 8.5" with gold-foil on the cover! 272 pages and hardcover, I'm SO EXCITED to share this book with the Same Hat crew. It was a long time in the making, but I am confident you will dig it.<br />
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Major thanks and adoration to Same Hat co-founder <a href="http://evanhaydenart.com/">Evan Hayden</a> for his masterful lettering and book design, and Colin at Last Gasp for believing in the project.<br />
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They are shipping direct orders now, and I understand book will be making their way to shops in the next 2 weeks in the United States, and then percolating out after that! If you'd like your local comics stop to carry the book, please have them contact Last Gasp directly via <a href="http://www.lastgasp.com/pre/panoramaisland/">their site</a>.<br />
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<strong>HERE ARE SOME PREVIEW PICS!</strong>
(<em>via our friend <a href="https://twitter.com/debaoki">Deb Aoki's Twitter feed</a>!</em>)
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STOKED, STOKED, STOKED.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-67685733653157974912013-03-07T12:50:00.001-08:002013-03-07T14:08:50.197-08:00Toren Smith, RIP (1960 - 2013)<div>
<p>I learned the sad news today that Toren Smith has passed away at the young age of 52.</p>
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Toren was a fascinating guy, the founder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Proteus">Studio Proteus</a> and arguably one of the <b>most important</b> figures in the entire history of the English-language manga industry. Please take a few minutes to read this <a href="http://www.mangauk.com/?p=toren-smith-1960-2013">personal tribute</a> from his friend Jonathen Clements - it paints a picture of a unique and exciting life, and fills in details about the earliest days of manga and anime fandom in America. The instrumental role Toren had in American comics history (alongside folks like Same Hat heroes Fred Schodt, Fred Patton, and others) can't be overstated.</div>
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If you were a manga/anime nerd in the '90s like me, and enjoyed any of the following Studio Proteus-powered titles, please remember Toren Smith today and keep his family and friends in your thoughts:</div>
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<img src="" />Hey guys, so um... I have been waiting to post news about this until it was really real, because of the near-mythical status is has accumulated after many false starts and anticipation over the last few years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">THE STRANGE TALE OF PANORAMA ISLAND by Suehiro Maruo is coming soon from <a href="http://www.lastgasp.com/d/36181/">Last Gasp</a>. I will have copies for sale at my booth at Toronto Comics Art (TCAF) in May! That's the cover above, except the actual book will have gold-foil printing for the text. And it's hardcover and 274 pages. Will be <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Strange-Tale-Panorama-Island/dp/0867197773">available online</a> and through stores in the U.S. officially soon after, starting in late-June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And in case you still don't believe me, here are some proofs from the overseas printer that we approved yesterday: </span><br />
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Holy hell, YES -- I'm finally taking the plunge and becoming "a publisher"...!?<br />
I'm currently busy working on all the mundane and exciting preparations to make everything happen; I have very limited and modest goals for release in the first year or so of doing this, and I still am keeping my full time day job and Same Hat going all the while. I am extremely excited to be able to share more details on the company and first issue of this new series in the coming months. The current plan is to debut Frontier #1 at TCAF alongside The Strange Tale of Panorama Island. You should come to the festival... It's gonna be <i>a doozy!</i>Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-13748323838813357482013-01-25T13:08:00.001-08:002013-01-27T12:34:12.343-08:00HIDESHI HINO & KAZUO UMEZU... JAM COMIC?Just in: delightful news, sent to us from Same Hat reader <a href="http://cat-heaven.tumblr.com/">cat-heaven</a>! Did you know that the NHK has a <a href="http://www.nhk.or.jp/program/renman/">program called Renman</a> that features professional artists facing off in a jam comic competition?? Where they meet and draw together on the same sheet of paper, then are judged by a panel of critics and television personalities?<br />
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And did you know... the January 6th episode of Renman featured a friendly faceoff between <strong>HIDESHI HINO</strong> and <strong>KAZUO UMEZU</strong>!?!?<br />
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The comic's theme was <span style="background-color: ivory;">初夢 </span>(<i>hatsuyume </i>- "First dream of the new year") and the competition uses a chess clock approach, with 30 total minutes for each cartoonist. They start it off with a game of <i>janken</i> and Hideshi Hino wins, electing for Umezu to draw first.<br />
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Thanks to an Anonymous reader, here is the full episode (for now), enjoy!<br />
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<strong>OUR CHALLENGERS!...</strong><br />
Kazuo Umezu!!<br />
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And his opponent... Hideshi Hino!!<br />
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The episode's judges (Simon, Randy, Paula, Randy 2)<br />
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Umezu remains the happiest and sweetest person I've ever met<br />
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Hideshi Hino's horrible horror-drawing hands. I actually met him at ComicCon 2005 too, he was very sweet but much less friendly.<br />
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The Laughing Vampire/Grandpa <br />
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Facing off in their fancy, signature looks.<br />
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This is a scene from an imagined buddy film in my mind: "Grumpy Old Mangakas."<br />
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The winner as decided by the judges on the show: KAZUO UMEZU<br />
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<span style="line-height: 14px;">Below are some pages <a href="http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/norioetochance/28795788.html">I dug up</a> from Japanese edition of "<i>Mysterious Underground Men</i>"... I am extremely excited to see where the combined sensibilities of PB's Dan Nadel and Holmberg go in the coming months with this line... very good news for the Same Hat community.</span></span><br />
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<i>("Friends of Same Hat" by our friend <a href="http://jilliantamaki.com/illustration/">Jillian Tamaki</a>)</i></div>
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I posted two short posts on the SH Tumblr: <a href="http://samehat.tumblr.com/post/39575809706/happy-new-year-to-the-entire-same-hat-community">here</a> and <a href="http://samehat.tumblr.com/post/39576055006/happy-new-year-to-the-entire-same-hat-community">here</a>, showing off your handsome faces!</div>
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<b>FOR REAL, SOME GREAT THINGS AHEAD IN 2013</b>: More posts, new contributors, print zines, a new t-shirt, a hosted Forum for us!</div>
<br />Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-1226700733126178272012-11-05T11:08:00.006-08:002012-11-05T11:12:41.174-08:00GOING TO BROOKLYN FEST THIS WEEKEND<p>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 <a href="http://www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com/">Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival</a> on Saturday, and slinging comics for a while.</p>
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<p>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:</p>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Koyama Press</b> table (U16-17): <b>SF #1</b> by <a href="http://ryancecilsmith.com/">Ryan Cecil Smith</a> and <a href="http://thickness.me/"><b>Thickness #3</b></a>!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>PictureBox</b> table (D1-2): <b>Glacier/Glazier #1</b> by <a href="http://jonnynegron.tumblr.com/">Jonny Negron</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll be hanging out at the Koyama Press table with Michael DeForge, and wearing my Same Hat t-shirt! Come say hello!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY</span></div>Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-82356385472460102212012-10-31T11:20:00.001-07:002012-11-01T10:16:09.346-07:00NEW RISOGRAPH ZINES FROM JAPAN MAKE ME WEAK (WITH JEALOUSY)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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This is the <a href="http://taco.shop-pro.jp/?pid=50518614">4th issue of </a><i><a href="http://taco.shop-pro.jp/?pid=50518614">Dosei</a> </i>(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). </div>
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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):</div>
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I'll work on more posts/details about <i>Dosei</i> 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.</div>
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<b>UPDATE: </b>Thanks to the internet sleuthing of <a href="https://twitter.com/lazerhosen">Niki</a>, we now have a listing of artists published in <i>Dosei</i> and their personal sites!</div>
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</span>Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-42769524769955736972012-10-23T13:12:00.000-07:002012-11-01T10:15:58.832-07:00QUICK PICS FROM KINOKUNIYA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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?!</div>
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A travesty, right? As folks who follow my other random projects have gathered, I've been focusing a lot of my free time on <a href="http://thickness.me/">creating zines and anthologies</a>, hanging out with minicomics folks, and <a href="http://hannahklee.com/Shoes-over-Bills-zine">printing comics</a> 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.</div>
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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: <b>Flowers of Evil</b> 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.</div>
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<b>Do you have a suggestion for a manga I need to read, that came out in 2012?</b> Please school me, my friends!</div>
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Okay, so while shopping I snapped a few pics around Kinokuniya of things I like:</div>
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<b>Magic Point</b> and <b>River's Edge</b>, by the incredible <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoko_Okazaki">Kyoko Okazaki</a>. Her amazing body-horror/gender mindfuck comic HELTER SKELTER was <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-12/vertical-adds-tezuka-twin-knight-kyoko-okazaki-helter-skelter-manga">licensed this summer</a> 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!<br />
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The reprints from 2010 of the late Satoshi Kon's manga, "Opus". I love the design of these two soft covers. Detailed scans here:<br />
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Ad for Usamaru Furuya's ongoing web serial "<a href="http://www.poco2.jp/comic/bokura/">Bokuran no Hikari KURABU</a>", on the back of the anthology <a href="http://www.ohtabooks.com/publish/eroticsf/">Manga Erotics F</a>. Pages from the series are online via the Japanese webcomic portal Poco Poco:<br />
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[<b>Upcoming SH! posts</b>: details on AkoTako, Poco Poco, and working with Gengoroh Tagame to publish his first ever licensed translation in English!]Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-68335062755714341082012-10-23T09:47:00.006-07:002012-11-01T10:15:49.824-07:00MORE MANGA PAGES FROM CTJHere's a quick follow-up for folks that haven't dug into <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2012/10/incredible-first-ever-manga-translated.html">my overview post</a> on the great Concerned Theatre Japan, which ran from 1969 to 1973.<br />
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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:<br />
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<strong>Sakura Illustrated</strong> ("Sakura Gaho") by Akasegawa Genpei [1971]<br />
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<strong>Red Eye</strong> ("Akame") by Shirato Sampei [1969]<br />
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<strong>The Stopcock</strong> ("Nejishiki") by Tsuge Yoshiharu [1969]<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">[<a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cjs;cc=cjs;view=toc;idno=aag0609.0002.002"><b>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PDF</b></a>]</span>Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-53302393595946399422012-10-18T15:40:00.004-07:002012-11-01T10:15:40.589-07:00FAVORITE 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?).<br />
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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!!<br />
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<strong>NOTE:</strong> Special points to Tumblrs that actually scan/post new, additive materials to the Tumblrverse. Tumblrs that ONLY EVER RT images are weak/lame.<br />
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(<em>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!</em>)<br />
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1. <strong>AANNIIMMEE</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1vsbcj861qdc388o1_500.gif" /><br />
<a href="http://aanniimmee.tumblr.com/">http://aanniimmee.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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2. <strong>Feh Yes Vintage Manga</strong><br />
<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7wmd7I2el1qd7kpzo1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://fehyesvintagemanga.tumblr.com/">http://fehyesvintagemanga.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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3. <strong>Goth Summer</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbp6tnexkK1qc9vzuo1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://gothsummer.tumblr.com/">http://gothsummer.tumblr.com</a><br />
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4. <strong>Vagabonded Life</strong><br />
<img height="310" src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc3wofIheP1qhp6c8o4_1280.png" width="640" /><br />
<a href="http://vagabondedlife.tumblr.com/">http://vagabondedlife.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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5. <strong>Corporal Steiner</strong><br />
<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8bvxrk6hB1r1d5rwo1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://corporalsteiner.tumblr.com/">http://corporalsteiner.tumblr.com</a><br />
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6. <strong>Acid Eater</strong><br />
<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1w56K2ki1r0ralmo1_500.gif" /><br />
<a href="http://acid-eater.tumblr.com/">http://acid-eater.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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7. <strong>Otomblr</strong><br />
<img height="640" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldy64vzl0z1qao38po1_1280.jpg" width="408" /><br />
<a href="http://otomblr.tumblr.com/">http://otomblr.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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8. <strong>Fuck Yeah, Hideshi Hino!</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m84eevb7RR1qij3mho1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://fuckyeahhideshihino.tumblr.com/">http://fuckyeahhideshihino.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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9. <strong>Conspirators of Pleasure</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbtk0wXP6D1qa2t6ho2_1280.jpg" />
<a href="http://conspirators-of-pleasure.tumblr.com/">http://conspirators-of-pleasure.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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10. <strong>HIMIZU</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m86ypgfZST1qdwnuko1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://hi-mi-zu.tumblr.com/">http://hi-mi-zu.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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11. <strong>panzer</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbeh7lfZLw1reylkuo1_500.png" /><br />
<a href="http://de-maupin.tumblr.com/archive">http://de-maupin.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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12. <strong>TigerRoll</strong>
<img height="267" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1w111Vwz1qd68j7o2_1280.jpg" width="640" /><br />
<img height="267" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1w111Vwz1qd68j7o9_r1_1280.png" width="640" /><br />
<a href="http://sinyasiki.tumblr.com/">http://sinyasiki.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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13. <strong>Cave of the Troglodyte</strong>
<img height="640" src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbl62heVdu1qite7lo1_1280.jpg" width="553" /><br />
<a href="http://troglodytespacebird.tumblr.com/">http://troglodytespacebird.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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14. <strong>chi-mi-do-ro</strong><br />
<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbzmeoOo8K1ql55kro1_400.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://neonburg.tumblr.com/">http://neonburg.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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15. <strong>Tokyo Scum Brigade</strong><br />
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<a href="http://tokyoscum.tumblr.com/">http://tokyoscum.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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16. <strong>Kurutta</strong><br />
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<a href="http://kurutta.tumblr.com/">http://kurutta.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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17. <strong>Space Leech</strong><br />
<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m714poYxzE1qk11gpo1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://spaceleech.tumblr.com/">http://spaceleech.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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18.<b> Gurafiku</b><br />
<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcnp927q7N1qaz1ado1_500.jpg" /><br />
<a href="http://gurafiku.tumblr.com/">http://gurafiku.tumblr.com/</a><br />
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[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 <a href="http://samehat.tumblr.com/ask">Ask me anything!</a> and submit.]Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-79810209192231446482012-10-17T09:00:00.000-07:002012-11-01T10:15:32.009-07:00SUEHIRO MARUO DESKTOP & IPHONE WALLPAPERSI followed the strange instructions on Suehiro Maruo's semi-recently redesigned official website, <a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/">Maruo Jigoku</a>, and was rewarded with a link to download these rad wallpapers for desktop and iPhone. For your pleasure, here they are:<br />
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<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZObtTDAlf8y83uj0eGEVufTZ9XFSsTZ889SzA75ktOkhdSWVbLvZ5fjby6Ub6h7QEsrehqj90TwFNvqJeiCns8CvsoUUMN_q84sroZgU_Ilv45P4USIaeULAxGu55-qftIni/s640/maruo01_1024_768.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/maruo01_1280_1024.jpg">1280×1024</a></li>
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<img height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3rueHI61L_Zwa1j9c9RuGGz0LAgCj3C5-EXJVyidG6Wmlby7ond3naIWj2Owa6BIeLqnJ1yZRaebBj4kKyo9jG-o28VRv_tSj8rUFHgGLL5Ro8pkVKpjAUwNTuU2Bxa2OFmzc/s640/maruo02_1024_768.jpg" width="640" />
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<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/maruo02_1280_1024.jpg">1280×1024</a></li>
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<strong>For the iPhone</strong>:<br />
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTurWH9I5DTPdDL0Z7GrkwrpusFagenzDDMBuvgJJa6Kj73NWzpFWU5sJIcflk-kcMBusqnOYIxWb7sb0IRV8a86X8CqAXMj1yhGOEBqOVJa0doUWCszMh0kAmddScOrho1as/s1600/mobile01_320_480.jpg" />
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<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/mobile01_240_320.jpg">240x320</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/mobile01_320_480.jpg">iPhone: 320x480</a></li>
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<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wAo_14x6ETIfoXcQmWm5ThLh7nUWw-2J7KQw52FHoOWWbVb-PPNt1LcTdckfDyH6VE4_j6gobUccF2gKlrtHPoD-pOpP2NGXSSr06AGgGb19fP_rMQvfLImLtbtRAobkE_V8/s1600/mobile02_320_480.jpg" />
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<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/mobile02_240_320.jpg">240x320</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/mobile02_320_480.jpg">iPhone: 320x480</a></li>
</ul>
<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYVe0FRDN8RpGXaNKejxJm_ex8vioOrzu7k5JgQxZ67PkdF_3j-uDTTxXwAw-2V-yOsxgBNcHRptEjnsNGEExngsx9bMJxd72S6hDFA4jLffXvuAHxali0bYo6lgvXe7Gk66gD/s1600/mobile03_320_480.jpg" />
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<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/mobile03_240_320.jpg">240x320</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.maruojigoku.com/img/mobile03_320_480.jpg">iPhone: 320x480</a></li>
</ul>
Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-39074854401204704942012-10-16T09:18:00.002-07:002012-11-01T10:15:14.783-07:00MORE GENPEI AKASEGAWA ART FROM 1971Hot on the heels of <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2012/10/incredible-first-ever-manga-translated.html">the return post</a> about Concernted Theatre Japan's special manga issue, I'm posting more images of work by Genpei Akasegawa from 1971.<br />
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These images come from the pages of 「黒い手帖 ブラックユーモア」 (<i>"kuro no techo burakku yuumoa" - Black Memo/Black Humor</i>), from May 1971. Doing a little digging, I found <a href="http://www.book-komiyama.co.jp/bookblog/?p=10750">an interesting post</a> (in Japanese) about the publication on the Komiyama Shoten bookstore blog. Thanks for the scans go to the fantastic Will of the great <a href="http://50watts.com/">50 WATTS blog</a>.<br />
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You can find more about Akasegawa's work and his "Hyperart" movement/experiment with found objects in this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hyperart-Thomasson-Akasegawa-Genpei/dp/1885030460">Amazon listing for his Hyperart: Thomasson</a> book.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-25254826248005457082012-10-14T21:05:00.002-07:002015-03-10T08:11:22.836-07:00INCREDIBLE FIRST-EVER MANGA TRANSLATED IN 1971<div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A new renewal for Same Hat? I've been meaning to write for a few months now, but I found myself continuing to delay compiling all my shreds of random thoughts together until I could find time to attack it properly. I think you'll find the materials discussed in this post live up to the hype, and I'm hoping this will lead to a few more interesting posts and interviews being unearthed in the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/michclassics/online/books/concerned.php">Concerned Theatre Journal</a> (CTJ) debuted in October 1969, and was conceived of, coordinated, and translated by David. G. Goodman. In 1971, CTJ released the first issue of its second volume as a double-sized "cartoon special". The 116 page issue featured the following three stories:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sakura Illustrated</b> ("Sakura Gaho") by Akasegawa Genpei [<i>1971</i>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Red Eye</b> ("Akame") by Shirato Sampei [<i>1969</i>]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Stopcock</b> ("Nejishiki") by Tsuge Yoshiharu [<i>1969</i>]</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">As nerds who've seen our ramshackle "<a href="http://www.samehat.com/2010/02/early-manga-days-chronology.html">Early Manga Days: Chronology</a>" post, this predates the publication of translation of Barefoot Gen by seven years, and the short story "The Bushi" (written by Satoshi Hirota and art by Masaichi Mukaide) appearing in Star*Reach #7. Between 1969 and 1973, nine issues were released by Goodman and his collaborators totaling "nearly thirteen hundred pages of translated plays, criticism, and scholarship." It's an amazing treasure trove of politically-active, internationally-minded theater criticism and translations from an exciting time in Japanese history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the first "Special Introductory Issue":</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A great overview of the entire life of Concerned Theatre Japan can be found in <a href="https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/michclassics/online/books/concerned.php">Virtual CTJ</a>, an essay which was written in early 2005. In this retrospective, Prof. Goodman explained their perspective:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mentality was different, too. Much of what is said today about Japan’s historical amnesia, its failure to confront the legacy of the Asia-Pacific War, was not true of CTJ. Our contributors were mostly in their late twenties or very early thirties; and, like the first postwar generation in other countries, they were actively interrogating their parents’ generation and the aftermath of the war. The plays and articles in CTJ continue to be trenchant critiques of Japan’s wartime behavior.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodman was a senior at Yale in fall of 1968, and writing about / documenting new theatre groups visiting America at the time. He explains the genesis of an English language magazine:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I learned through our correspondence of the ambitious program the June Theatre was planning in a new alliance to be called Theatre Center 68/69. The program included a plan to publish a magazine, and I proposed that an English-language sister publication be issued as well. What was needed, I argued, was a vehicle that would allow Japanese artists, writers, and scholars to participate fully in global intellectual discourse that would empower them to engage their peers around the world and be engaged by them. Tsuno responded that it was an ambitious idea, that no one knew the first thing about publishing such a magazine, and that no money was available to support it, but if I was prepared to edit it, I was welcome to do so. I decided to go ahead.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to the original essays and translations of contemporary plays (and the manga issue!), TCJ features rad graphic design and interesting ads from shops and brands eager to align to themselves with the dramatic, visual, and envelope-pushing theater productions of the time:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For (much) more on the visual culture of the theater, you must check out another book edited/curated by Prof. Goodman: "ANGURA: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde," a book documenting the posters by Tadanori Yokoo, Hirano Koga, Shinohara Katsuyuki, and their contemporaries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Writing specifically about CTJ's manga special, Prof. Goodman said: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm least familiar with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpei_Akasegawa">Genpei Akasegawa</a>'s work, but his satirical newspaper opens up the book with a bang and firmly ties the contents that follow to the 1969 Tokyo University Protests and the aftermath of their failures and co-option. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next up in the issue is "Red Eyes" by Shirato Sanpei, a powerful and intense period piece by one of the originators of <i>gekiga</i>. Sanpei is best known, in Japan and English-speaking readerships, for creating The Legend of Kamui. The manga "Red Eyes" was later adapted by </span>Saitô Ren, and published in Concerned Theatre Japan.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, on that last but not least tip, we have a translation of "Nejishiki" by Yoshiharu Tsuge -- named here as "The Stopcock"(!). This would appear 32 years later as "Screw-Style" in <a href="http://www.tcj.com/the-comics-journal-250-february-2003/">The Comics Journal #250</a>. It seems silly to add much commentary to such an important and pioneering work, but it is an obvious must-read for any Same Hat fan of alternative manga-- the linchpin/shared ancestor of a lot of our favorite manga!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please enjoy this incredible collection of early manga. Friend of Same Hat and manga-in-America pioneer <a href="https://www.jai2.com/">Fred Schodt</a> sent this thoughts in response to seeing the Concerned Theatre Japan's manga issue:</span><br />
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It definitely predates Gen by nearly 10 years. Whether it's the first manga translated or not, I'm not sure, because it depends on how you define manga. Short manga were being translated in Tokyo Puck at the beginning of the 20th Century, and even in Maru Maru Chinbun at the end of the 19th Century. But I've never seen these pseudo story-manga done so early. And they're all great favorites of mine. In fact, it reminded me how powerful manga were in that period. More powerful than most today, I venture, simply because of the political intensity of the period, and the radical-ness of using manga to transmit such sophisticated ideas.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>[Many thanks to <a href="http://erogekiga.blogspot.com/">Paul</a> for initially tipping me off to the existence of these online archives. Professor Goodman now teaches at </i></span><i>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I'm contacting him for an interview in the coming weeks.</i><i style="font-family: inherit;">]</i></div>
Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-19892701595891547522011-11-20T15:31:00.001-08:002011-11-20T15:39:16.889-08:00SAME HAT T-SHIRT NOW ON SALE!<font size=2>The Same Hat t-shirt is now on sale! Wear your allegiance to indie/weirdo/horror manga loud and proud with this dorky thing celebrating our blog and community.
<a href="http://remoteryan.bigcartel.com/product/the-same-hat-tee"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqIQJFpUxpA1goYxO2yKX6S_gzdS2OMdc_ufLAx6o6mVcy6LtOFhj5ThLSAa60hraZglP0zdMFJrUhEFWStl_LWVTkgxhw61z8h9fYPPfz7dz4Pm70cXQlSnTReHUm22qA8fs/s400/samehatteemock.png"></a>
<strong><a href="http://remoteryan.bigcartel.com/product/the-same-hat-tee">YOU CAN GET IT HERE</a></strong>
It's on sale for $16 (+ shipping) to anywhere in the world, and features a design by <a href="http://jonnynegron.tumblr.com/">JONNY NEGRON</a>, and lettering by <a href="http://kingtrash.com/">MICHAEL DEFORGE</a>. The shirt is available in sizes XS to XXXL on that familiar high-grade American Apparel Men's tee. White ink on black shirt, printed locally in the Bay Area with assistance from our buddy <a href="http://seibei.com/">SEIBEI</a>.
All orders ship within 2-3 business days, and there should be enough for folks who want one to get them without problems. I'll have some shirts at my table at Brooklyn Fest on 12/3 as well. If you have any question, leave a comment or hit me up at samehat AT gmail DOT com!
</font>Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-3515411788618318182011-10-29T10:10:00.000-07:002011-10-29T10:10:03.785-07:00HALLOWEEN MANGA MAKE-UP 2011Holy crap, it's time again! Halloween is upon us and like every year I wanna know... is anyone dressing up as anything horror-manga related? If you're on the fence, let me present this still <a href="http://portal.nifty.com/2006/05/13/a/index.htm">awesome tutorial</a> on horror manga make-up! (I've posted it every Halloween since we started!)<br />
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In <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2009/11/same-hat-community-halloween-prowess.html">previous years</a>, the Same Hat community has shared some intense and rad costumes. If you bust out a manga-related costume and wanna share, please send it to SAMEHAT at GMAIL doot COM and I'll post it after the weekend! Can't wait to see what folks come up with... I wonder what the Tokyo Scum guys will bust out this year?<br />
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(<em>PS: If you wondered, I'm working on a Reverend Harry Powell (from Night of the Hunter) costume, if I can get my act together!</em>)Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-60224803635063756172011-10-28T17:06:00.000-07:002012-11-01T10:15:06.002-07:00THE INAUGURAL SAME HAT SHIRT!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqIQJFpUxpA1goYxO2yKX6S_gzdS2OMdc_ufLAx6o6mVcy6LtOFhj5ThLSAa60hraZglP0zdMFJrUhEFWStl_LWVTkgxhw61z8h9fYPPfz7dz4Pm70cXQlSnTReHUm22qA8fs/s1600/samehatteemock.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpqIQJFpUxpA1goYxO2yKX6S_gzdS2OMdc_ufLAx6o6mVcy6LtOFhj5ThLSAa60hraZglP0zdMFJrUhEFWStl_LWVTkgxhw61z8h9fYPPfz7dz4Pm70cXQlSnTReHUm22qA8fs/s400/samehatteemock.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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<strong>DETAILS</strong>:<br />
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(<em>click for bigger versions</em>)<br />
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This shirt features a design by <a href="http://jonnynegron.tumblr.com/">JONNY NEGRON</a>, and lettering by <a href="http://kingtrash.com/">MICHAEL DEFORGE</a>. I’m planning to sell it in sizes XS -XXXL depending on what you want, and it’s looking like it will be around $16-18 bucks depending on how many we print. I’m getting printing help from apparel wizard/buddy <a href="http://www.seibei.com/">SEIBEI</a>, and he says the shirts will be a supersoft print on a high-grade American Apparel Men's tee.<br />
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I am planning to have the shirts at the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival on December 3 (where DeForge/Negron will be in person too) and then selling via this site right beforehand!<br />
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<em>And yes, creating an actual t-shirt means that I plan to fully revive Same Hat with regular posting!</em>Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-81736179505396748172011-10-25T12:35:00.000-07:002011-10-25T12:38:57.664-07:00WHILE THIS BLOG LANGUISHED, THE TUMBLR LIVED!I'm back on the scene, and working for you to keep Same Hat rolling and interesting. I'm happy to report that while the blog was in temporary haitus, the <a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/">SAME HAT TUMBLR</a> has continued serving up the goods!<br />
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I've continued to post at least a few times a week, and the other <a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/contributors">super contributors</a> like Jim, Olivia, Caroline, Mis Nas, and the crew have been keeping it fresh. Here are a few highlights recently:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/post/11894936443/polymomial-rootstudio-suffervacation">Stills from the new Gyo adaptation!?</a> - Even Junji Ito is excited about this one<br />
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<li><a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/post/11620584143/hot-new-meme-sleepytezuka-tm-click-for">SleepyTezuka, the hottest new meme</a> (also as an animated <a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/post/11637687320/now-as-a-gif-sleepytezuka">.gif</a>)<br />
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<li><a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/post/11362903692/fugu-suicide-anna-tsubaki-ukiyoe-scan-from">Anna Tsubaki punk scans</a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5GnlqK8dpo_8qcifj8rDKO_LkBD17d971eqWM6lu8PA8UiCTlB2I9wzfsTHKKV8eUgxeWOPE-z96X_m8VfBzf1gL1NFZbOMsuC2YvBDSIpk4PG-RGx_oCIrYXWurKHzEeh7Cr/s1600/tumblr_lsy2o0NJ8y1qby53lo1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="400" width="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5GnlqK8dpo_8qcifj8rDKO_LkBD17d971eqWM6lu8PA8UiCTlB2I9wzfsTHKKV8eUgxeWOPE-z96X_m8VfBzf1gL1NFZbOMsuC2YvBDSIpk4PG-RGx_oCIrYXWurKHzEeh7Cr/s400/tumblr_lsy2o0NJ8y1qby53lo1_500.jpg" /></a></li>
<li><a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/post/10984266418/kaneda-by-jonny-negron">Kaneda by Jonny Negron</a><br />
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<li>and much, much more!</li>
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Please follow this thing and <a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/ask">contribute links</a> if you aren't already!Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-88036881901051790312011-10-25T11:04:00.000-07:002012-01-19T10:04:19.355-08:00RIP JERRY FELLOWS[<em>My first post back! I've been working on zines and translations and mostly my day job, but have plans to get this jam up and rolling again--- with guest posts and some long-planned essay posts. We are also just about a month away from finally releasing our first Same Hat shirt--- a joint-design by Michael DeForge and Jonny Negron that I think you will love. My goal is to get posting regularly on here again before that happens, so you and I won't be ashamed to don the shirt!</em>]<br />
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I read <a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2011/08/31-1/early-contributor-to-north-american-anime-fandom-jerry-fellows-passes-away">last month</a> that early fandom contributor and zinester Jerry Fellows passed away -- my condolences go out to his friends and family. I never had the chance to meet Jerry, but he sounds like a dude after our own hearts and the kind of person I'd like to highlight here on Same Hat.<br />
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Jerry came to my attention a few years back, when I was reading Fred Patten's personal history of the development of Anime/Manga fandom in America, "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=81Y1TVYQSrEC&pg=PA31&dq=%22jerry+fellows%22&hl=en&ei=qVhpTqWFG7TisQL40eWhDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22jerry%20fellows%22&f=false">Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews</a>". In Patten's timeline of anime fandom, he noted the following about February 1983 (the same month that Nakazawa's <em>I Saw It</em> was published in English by Educomics):<br />
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Space Fanzine Yamato is published by Steve Harrison, Ardith Carlton, and Jerry Fellows in Michigan as "the ultimate information source" on Space Battleship Yamato/Star Blazers. This is the first American fan effort to produce a "Roman Album"-style complete information guide to a particular anime title.</blockquote>
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Manga fandom is a strange and fascinating thing to me, and treads somewhere between the two (formerly-overlapping) worlds of early SF fandom and comic book fandom. Manga (and more specifically, Anime) fandom developed along similar timeframes as the SF scene, but remained the realm of very devoted enthusiasts for a long time; the scene was, perhaps happily, kept small initially by the double-whammy limitations of 1) a physical barrier to getting your hands on the actual media you wanted to consume-- first 16mm films, then later more easily VHS tapes-- and 2) a language barrier to understanding the anime/manga, in a time before the "boom" in Japanese Language programs at US universities that happened alongside the Japanese economic bubble of the mid-to-late 80s.<br />
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Interestingly enough, a "collector" market of manga/anime (as distinct from toys, models, vinyl) remains mostly non-existent to this day; you can find old VHS tapes and 1st editions of early Viz floppies for under a buck easily at used book shops. The fan translations, early dubs, and fanzines at the start of the scene were simply labors of love, currency of in-group identification between folks "in the know" but mostly invisible and valueless to folks outside of fandom--- and now mostly forgotten to all but the hardest core/weirdest of current anime/manga fans.<br />
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In the context of typewriters and expensive/early Xerox technology (and no access to things like InDesign or um, the internet), the gleeful and thorough devotion of fans like Steve, Ardith and Jerry impresses me and inspires the little zine projects I want to work on. Steve wrote a detailed and very personal recounting of the experience creating Space Fanzine Yamato on <a href="http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2008/03/space-fanzine-yamato-untold-story.html">his blog, Let's Anime!</a>, and it details the dorky/poignant way in which friendships blossom and wither over the course of a long project. Please take a second to read it!<br />
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This excerpt from <a href="http://electricantzine.com/ea1-fred.html">my interview with Fred Schodt in 2007</a> gives a little more context to the scene that Jerry was a part of, the pioneers of fandom from which all weeaboos are descended:<br />
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<strong>ANT</strong>: There’s some stuff written about other early fandoms – whether it’s science fiction fandom or American comic book fandom – that thing when a sub-culture scene later turns into a big business. I’m always curious about how that gets started. The people you knew in the US who read your first book were probably part of a sort of vanguard of manga or anime fans. Who were those people? Were they science fiction fans? Dungeons and Dragons people? Or Japanophiles?<br />
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<strong>FRED</strong>: I knew a lot of those people in the very beginning, the people from the really enthusiastic manga and anime fans were very unusual people. Jared and I were actually working and interpreting for Tezuka on an early trip – I think ’79 or 1980, I don’t remember the exact date, but I know that we went to see the C/FO folks (Cartoon Fantasy Organization) and I had never met people like that in my life. It was almost frightening. [LAUGHS] I had never met people who were so dedicated to something which was so obscure in the United States at the time, and it was a very small group. But they were people who became quite big in fandom, such as Fred Patton in particular, he was a real central figure in American fandom, and still is.<br />
They were people who were obsessed with anime – more anime than manga, very few people could read it because there weren’t any English manga available. So their entry point had been actually the early 60s anime that was shown in the United States, such as Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Fred Patten's good friend Robin Leyden from the C/FO was a huge Astro Boy fan, the likes of which you’d rarely see. He later on became a special effects animator. Robyn actually made a model of Astro Boy and presented it to Tezuka...<br />
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<strong>ANT</strong>: What was Tezuka’s reaction to that, to these strange American anime fans?<br />
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<strong>FRED</strong>: Oh, he was overwhelmed. [Tezuka] had been in contact with some of them even before Jared and I met him. But they were the first Anime fans in the US, to such a serious degree. Almost scary. These were not people who were interested in Japanese business or technology or anything like that. They were just focused on anime, the characters and the stories, they just loved it. So it was actually very touching.<br />
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<strong>ANT</strong>: It seems like a lot of those people in the early 80s were the ones that eventually drummed up interest in anime, and a lot of them were the people who first ones that did fan subtitles.<br />
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<strong>FRED</strong>: That’s right. And organized the first conventions.</blockquote>
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Here are a few more images from Steve's post, I gotta take a minute and track down a PDF/scans of this great piece of fandom history sometime soon.<br />
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RIP, Jerry Fellows... and hats off to all the early fandom pioneers!<br />
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(<em>The staff of Space Fanzine Yamato</em>)<br />
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[More soon: Gyo manga, tons of Vertical releases, my dumb projects, Umezz Carnival 2011, etc!]Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-19919865549602817672011-06-24T09:21:00.000-07:002011-06-24T09:24:38.439-07:00ULTIMATE SUEHIRO MARUO TATTOO?Longtime reader and Suehiro Maruo superfan <a href="http://wurzeltod.ch">Suzanne</a> just sent us pics of her RIDICULOUSLY AWESOME tattoos. For her sleeve piece, Suzanne worked to carefully compile images from a number of Suehiro Maruo works, including panels from The Laughing Vampire and illustration work featured in his Maruograph art books.<br />
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If you can believe it, she says it's still an in-progress piece, with further details to be added to her arm(!!). The tattoo artist was Piotrek Taton at Good Times in London.<br />
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Suzanne, and our previously-mentioned friend <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2008/10/suehiro-maruo-tattoo-re-emerges.html">Beth</a>... you are the queens of Maruo fandom! <br />
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To see all of the Same Hat community's awesome manga tattoo, simply click the "<a href="http://www.samehat.com/search/label/tattoos">tattoo</a>" label.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-27057110066242459152011-06-21T23:39:00.000-07:002011-07-01T11:22:25.040-07:00DANG, LOOK AT THIS MANGA INK!Over on the <a href="http://tumblr.samehat.com/post/6763773784/pictured-larrys-shintaro-kago-tattoo-does">Same Hat Tumblr</a>, I restarted an open call for pictures of your manga-related tattoos... These are to add to our <a href="http://www.samehat.com/search/label/tattoos">growing archive</a> of tattoos (depicting the works of Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, Suehiro Maruo, and others!)<br />
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The lovely <strong>secretcat</strong>'s amazing NEKOJIRU tattoo!<br />
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<a href="http://teendrama.tumblr.com/">teendrama</a>'s crazy GURREN LAGANN tattoo!<br />
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<strong>UPDATE</strong>:<br />
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Jake's UZUMAKI tattoo!<br />
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<strong>UPDATE 2</strong>:<br />
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<strong>UPDATE 3</strong>:<br />
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If you have a picture to share, send me an email at <strong>SAMEHAT</strong> [at] <strong>GMAIL</strong> [dot] <strong>COM</strong>.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-43471091871582291062011-06-20T18:07:00.000-07:002011-06-20T19:09:06.289-07:00LOOKING BACK AT SECRET COMICS JAPANLast week I spent a lovely couple of hours re-reading back issues of PULP off my shelves (for research for my <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2011/06/met-usamaru-furuya-in-toronto.html">Usamaru Furuya post</a>). While most all of the series that ran in PULP have been collected in their own trade paperbacks (though I believe they are all out of print other than Uzumaki), and some of the best essays and columns were collected in "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Pulp-Dispatches-Japanese-1997-1999/dp/1569313717">Fresh Pulp</a>", there really is nothing quite as fun as reading these comics in serialized form, running alongside each other! <br />
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As an extension of the PULP experiment/enterprise, the editors (including Jason Thompson, Izumi Evers, Carl Gustav Horn and others I'm surely forgetting) worked with Chikao Shiratori (an ex-GARO editor) to put together an anthology called <strong>Secret Comics Japan</strong>. I've <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2005/03/on-road-in-some-holes.html">previously posted about</a> this important collection which (along with Comics Underground Japan and, to a lesser degree, Sake Jock) is a key piece of reading for any Same Hat reader.<br />
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I have really distinct memories of first encountering this book when Evan brought it along on our cross-country road trip to get me out to Stanford in 2001. This book is where I first encountered Shintaro Kago, as well as Furuya's PALEPOLI strips and Makoto Aida's groundbreaking MUTANT HANAKO. At the time of Secret Comics Japan's publication, PULP ran an overview of the state of "indie manga" in Japan in the early-2000s, as well as detailed notes on each story included in the anthology. I found it pretty fascinating to revisit this stuff, and have included large scans for your reading pleasure below:<br />
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<em>CLICK EACH PAGE FOR THE FULL-SIZE IMAGE</em>:<br />
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Somehow I'd missed this manga's release, but it turns out it <strong><em>is</em></strong> a real thing that actually exists!<br />
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There book is called 伊藤潤二の猫日記 よん&むー ("Junji Ito's Cat Diaries: Yon & Muu"), and here is the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E6%BD%A4%E4%BA%8C%E3%81%AE%E7%8C%AB%E6%97%A5%E8%A8%98-%E3%82%88%E3%82%93%EF%BC%86%E3%82%80%E3%83%BC-%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89KC-%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4-%E6%BD%A4%E4%BA%8C/dp/4063376648">listing on Amazon.co.jp</a>. It looks like the book is about 116 pages and pretty cheap, a one-off collection published by Kodansha.<br />
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I dug around the internets and found some panels to share. Enjoy!<br />
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There's more about Junji Ito's cat insanity here on this <a href="http://shinopy.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2009-03-18-1">Japanese blog about cats</a> and this <a href="http://nyuge3.cocolog-nifty.com/nyuge/2009/03/post-9cb4.html">other blog by a Junji Ito fan</a>.<br />
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And in case you've forgotten who we are dealing with, hear is a wonderfully eerie (and oddly romantic) photograph of Junji Ito:<br />
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[As a final piece of Junji Ito miscellany, here is some Ito ASCII art I found on a Japanese message board!]<br />
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<strong><font color=red>UPDATE!</font></strong>: Lovely readers of the Same Hat Tumblr have alerted me to the fact that a Yon & Muu scanlation <em>does</em> exist (and was posted recently). If you feel so include you can check it out at <a href="http://www.mangareader.net/ito-junjis-cat-diary/1">MANGA READER</a> and <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/itou_junji_no_neko_nikki_yon_mu/">MANGAFOX</a>.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-45965944753506455192011-06-09T11:37:00.000-07:002011-06-13T17:37:08.743-07:00JIRO ISHIKAWA ON MY MINDOver at the (relatively) recently-revamped The Comics Journal site, my buddy <a href="http://kingtrash.com/">Michael DeForge</a> is posting a series of rad "<a href="http://www.tcj.com/author/michael-deforge/">A Cartoonist's Diary</a>" dispatches; in these posts, DeForge talks about his comics work and process, muses about gig poster design, and talks about comics he's enjoying.<br />
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In the "Day 2" post, Michael mentioned picking up GIRO by Jiro Ishikawa, which is a lovely little book published in-house by <a href="http://www.tacoche.com/">TACO che</a>:<br />
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For those that missed my <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2009/04/taking-taco-che-by-strategy.html">earlier posts</a>, TACO che is a wonderful shop in the Nakano Broadway mall on the west edge of Tokyo, specializing in indie/horror/alternative manga. Basically, it's if the beating heart and cultural brain was manifested into a tiny bookstore of wonders. In addition to selling books by Seirinkogeisha, EnterBrain, Ohta, and others, TACO che has a series of self-published art books/collections. In addition to GIRO, they have also published booklets featuring the Namio Harukawa's thick ladies, paintings by Imiri Sakabashira, and the gay eroticism of Gekko Hayashi.<br />
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GIRO itself features an sampling of the intense and rad work of underground artist, Jiro Ishikawa, from comics and minis he cread between 1996 and 2001. Some images here (taken from <a href="http://tcj.com">TCJ.com</a>):<br />
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You can actually buy a copy via <a href="http://taco.shop-pro.jp/?pid=15616980">TACO che</a>, or for US folks at <a href="http://www.zfaworks.com/giro-jiro-ishikawa.html">this site</a> (and I believe <a href="http://www.beguiling.com/">The Beguiling</a> in Toronto has copies as well).<br />
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I didn't want to just write about Jiro Ishikawa, without adding some visual ammunition to the interweb, so I dug up two additional mini-comics I snagged while in Tokyo last year. These are both self-published book and look more like the comics our friends sling at Alternative Press Expo than the typical manga <em>tankobon</em> you encounter. Here are my favorite images/pages from these two minis:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNLipzww5R6g8YEOekfulKsFi5LrDiL1G8cbfnx18qyUT-YqLdk7QYSNMBgALfBBhBwPsnKuKy5kzmxqnRLoUcxM6MjXmf0xJ6YCcmnZt5N-BLy_CW3GcDl28uoQEp9uJrJEF/s1600/JIRO2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="296" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNLipzww5R6g8YEOekfulKsFi5LrDiL1G8cbfnx18qyUT-YqLdk7QYSNMBgALfBBhBwPsnKuKy5kzmxqnRLoUcxM6MjXmf0xJ6YCcmnZt5N-BLy_CW3GcDl28uoQEp9uJrJEF/s400/JIRO2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(<em>Jiro Ishikawa is really into dogs, it seems</em>)</div><br />
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More scans from Ishikawa's work are on <a href="http://blog.livedoor.jp/zombie_tecyo/archives/1093113.html">this Japanese blog</a>.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11083453.post-28671079672635801922011-06-07T15:35:00.000-07:002011-06-10T07:04:31.117-07:00MET USAMARU FURUYA IN TORONTO!Last month, I took a lovely trip to Canada and attended the fantastic Toronto Comics Art Festival. I was there specifically to sell my zines, including a book of erotic indie comics titled <a href="http://thickness.me/"><strong>THICKNESS #1</strong></a>. The book was created and edited by me and my buddy Michael DeForge, and includes original comics by my favorites: Jonny Negron, Ze Jian Shen, Derek Ballard, Katie Skelly and a new color strip by True Chubbo.<br />
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[<strong>PS: You can <a href="http://thickness.me/">buy a copy</a> for $10 (+shipping) right now.</strong>]<br />
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I'm going to write about the zines and comics I picked up at TCAF over on the <a href="http://blog.electricantzine.com/">EAZB</a> this weekend, but for Same Hat I wanted to post about a dream coming true... having the opportunity to meet genius mangaka <strong>USAMARU FURUYA!</strong><br />
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[<em>Furuya photo via <a href="http://www.boilet.net/fr/sakka_sommaire01.html">this site</a></em>]<br />
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Usamaru Furuya was at TCAF as a "Guest of Honor", and promoting both Viz's <strong>Genkaku Picasso</strong> and Vertical's release of <strong>Lychee Light Club</strong>. I feel intimidated by the task of explaining Furuya's importance/talents in a simple Same Hat post due to both my deep fondness for his work and the variety/breadth of genres and types of cartooning he has produced over his career. For a primer, <a href="http://torontocomics.com/usamaru-furuya/">this profile of Furuya</a> does a great job of introducing his work if you've not read anything by the dude.<br />
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I first encountered Furuya's work back when I was in high school, in the now-defunct PULP Magazine. PULP was a monthly manga magazine, which functioned as a primer on all things "indie" for English readers in the late '90s. I spoke at length (along with Chris Butcher and David Welsh) about the importance of this book on my reading habits and sensibilities on <a href="http://www.inkstuds.org/?p=2749">this episode</a> of Inkstuds, and Furuya's kogal-skewering <strong>SHORT CUTS</strong> strips were a focal point of that teenage excitement about what manga and comics could set out to achieve.<br />
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Ostensibly, a 2-page formal gag strip skewering Kogals, SHORT CUTS was a funny gag comedy about youth culture with great timing, cute girls, and surprisingly beautiful art; but it also was an avenue for literary and internationally-minded Furuya to namecheck Dali, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Kazuo Umezu, <a href="http://electricantzine.com/images/APHEX.jpg">Aphex Twin</a>, and Osamu Dazai (along with boob jokes!). It's an absolute delight to read and a collection of gags that I come back to every few years and find another reference or angle I had missed previously.<br />
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Here's a bonus Short Cut strip (which is fantastically NSFW and hilarious): <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/5809157567_e015318da8_b.jpg">Page 1</a>, <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2042/5809157601_4d0e15c6d7_b.jpg">Page 2</a>.<br />
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<strong>SECRET COMICS JAPAN: PALEPOLI</strong><br />
Furuya's silly and quietly amazing strips for Short Cuts were predated in his bibliography by a series of 4-panel gags published under the name, PALEPOLI. I'm prone to hyperbole, and biased by encountering these comics at an extremely impressionable phase of my teenage years, but I've found Palepoli holds up extremely well to repeated re-reading. A selection of the Palepoli strips were published in English in the fantastic Viz-published indie anthology, <em>SECRET COMICS JAPAN</em>. Here is how editors Jason Thompson and Izumi Evers described Palepoli:<br />
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At TCAF, Furuya mentioned that his biggest challenge when starting out was around paneling and pacing his manga to tell effective stories. With Palepoli, Furuya purposely constrained each strip to 4-panel/"yon-koma" format. Within that format, Furuya soars artistically and slams formally against the visual language of a four-panel grid. It's full of hilarious sex jokes and pop culture references, as well as formal experiments rivaling Shintaro Kago's <a href="http://www.samehat.com/2007/06/abstraction-by-shintaro-kago_26.html">Abstraction</a>.<br />
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Here is an example of one kind of approach the strip took, with a juxtaposition of Furuya's <em>Makoto-chan</em> stand-in Takashi pondering his own hand:<br />
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Additional Palepoli strips: <a href="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/samehat/1113759523539.jpg">1</a> <a href="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/samehat/1113770121143.jpg">2</a> <a href="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15/samehat/1113769922429.jpg">3</a><br />
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As I started the post off saying... Usamaru Furuya was a Featured Guest of the festival, and a number of events highlighting his work were scheduled throughout the weekend. As part of this, Furuya signed books for fans for a few hours on Saturday... I had a chance to talk to him, shake his hand enthusiastically, and have him sign my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hinterdenbergen/sets/72157605534531768/">Disneyland Autograph book</a>!!<br />
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(<em>Furuya and a red-faced with excitement Me</em>)<br />
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Furuya was incredibly sweet in person, and was nice enough to take a photograph with me (below). He had his wife and baby (both were insanely cute) in tow, and later after his signing Furuya walked around the festival checking out minicomics and booths on display. <br />
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In addition to the signing, Festival Director and <a href="http://comics212.net/">master blogger</a> Chris Butcher hosted a Spotlight Panel and interview with Usamaru Furuya. I haven't seen video surface yet, but <a href="http://www.kuri-ousity.com/2011/05/tcaf-2011-spotlight-on-usamaru-furuya/">this summary of the Spotlight Panel</a> over at Kuriousity does a great job of summarizing the event. (The mentioned "audience member" who asked about Plastic Girl is me, haha). My buddy Ikki Nikki also conducted a <a href="http://shonenjump.viz.com/content/interview-usamaru-furuya">fantastic interview</a> with Furuya for the Shonen Jump Magazine site that includes further great details about his process and thoughts on comics.<br />
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The most interesting and crazy points to me were:<br />
<ul><li>Furuya created his ground-breaking PALEPOLI comics when he was only 24 years old(!!). This was the #1 holy shit moment of TCAF for me.</li>
<li>He described drawing layouts and panels as a muscle that needs to be flexed and can only be honed via repetition. 'Someone once said "you can master any kind of skill with 10,000 hours of practice." I also find this to be true.'</li>
<li>Furuya talked extensively of the influence of Suehiro Maruo on his work, and that he idolized Maruo and wanted to be a part of GARO after seeing his short stories printed in the magazine. Furuya called Lychee Light Club his tribute to the Grand Guignol theatre and Suehiro Maruo.</li>
<li>There wasn't a real point to my question, except that I got to say out loud to Usamaru Furuya in public that he was one of my alltime favorite cartoonists and a genius, and that Plastic Girl was an amazing and beautiful piece of work :)</li>
<li>Furuya is very interested in digital publishing and integrating social media into the experience of sharing his work with an audience. He mentioned how other than conventions (which he doesn't really attend) he never has the experience of experiencing an immediate reaction to his works. As part of this, Furuya is serializing his newest manga online, allowing users to comment directly on individual panels (more below).</li>
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After hearing Seth and other somewhat-crankypants cartoonists talk about their weariness of the internet and ebooks, it was surprising and exciting to hear that Furuya was the one that drove his publisher to serialize his prequel to Lychee Light Club for free online. You guys are all reading this new series, right? If not, you gotta check out <a href="http://www.poco2.jp/comic/bokura/"><em>BOKURA NO HIKARI CLUB</em></a>.<br />
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Ah, it feels good to finally be back posting on Same Hat! I missed you guys.Ryan Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11212185086058139671noreply@blogger.com9