Wow, these are lovely designs. Yes, you can now get your own fan shirts for the maniacal manga of all things awesome, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (edited by my buddy, Jason Thompson. If you know someone living in Japan (and can figure out the site), go here for ordering and additional pictures. Check out my favorite designs here (and click to page through the slideshow, or mouse over the bottom to see thumbnails):
And yes, I'm testing out a new image hosting thing for posts with a lot of pics, called PictoBrowser. I created a minimal Same Hat Flickr to go hand-in-hand with it. Let me know if you like the way it presents images in the comments!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Saturday, March 14, 2009
MEANWHILE, OVER AT THE EAZB...
I'm out of town for the weekend, visiting my GF at grad school. No news posts on Same Hat until Monday, but things continue to be hopping at the EAZB. Click to go check out recent posts on the Electric Ant Zine Blog:
+ Revolting and beautiful scans of Spanish horror/exploitation comics via EROTRASH.
+ Monsterous comics and prints by the Sophia Foster-Dimino!
+ Obligatory nerd rage discussion of the Watchmen movie's failings.
+ Recommendations for SUPERJAIL, vintage camera shopping in Tokyo, and the new Morrison/Quietly Batman & Robin comic.
+ The Covered! meme continues, with Michael DeForge tackling Batman, Evan attacking Gene Aubry, and Robert Syrett sending up Bloodpool.
+ Preview pages from our buddy Anthony Wu's upcoming Battlestar Galactica comic for Tokyopop!
+ Surreal weirdo xerox collages by me (preparing stuff for Electric Ant #2).
+ New Animal Collective video animated by zine friend Jon Vermilyea.
+ And much more... (Browse through the previous pages at the bottom!)
If you like what you see over there, please leave a comment and say hello!
+ Revolting and beautiful scans of Spanish horror/exploitation comics via EROTRASH.
+ Monsterous comics and prints by the Sophia Foster-Dimino!
+ Obligatory nerd rage discussion of the Watchmen movie's failings.
+ Recommendations for SUPERJAIL, vintage camera shopping in Tokyo, and the new Morrison/Quietly Batman & Robin comic.
+ The Covered! meme continues, with Michael DeForge tackling Batman, Evan attacking Gene Aubry, and Robert Syrett sending up Bloodpool.
+ Preview pages from our buddy Anthony Wu's upcoming Battlestar Galactica comic for Tokyopop!
+ Surreal weirdo xerox collages by me (preparing stuff for Electric Ant #2).
+ New Animal Collective video animated by zine friend Jon Vermilyea.
+ And much more... (Browse through the previous pages at the bottom!)
If you like what you see over there, please leave a comment and say hello!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
NEW ADDITIONS TO KAGO'S YOUTUBE (+VICE)
Hot off the iMovie presses! Our patron saint Shintaro Kago has added two additional animated shorts to his YouTube channel. It's fair to say they have been a mixed bag to date, and these are no different-- I'll let you guys fight it out in the comments! For the previous three videos, check here.
マーメイド / Mermaid
アリクイ舌の襲撃 / Attack of the anteater's tongue
UPDATE: Also added the new Kago stuff from VICE that I forgot to post originally. But are a little underwhelming visually, but I liked how the first illustration suited the article.
+ Spot illustration for an interesting article on Manga Kissa homelessness.
+ This month's KAGOMANIACS:
マーメイド / Mermaid
アリクイ舌の襲撃 / Attack of the anteater's tongue
UPDATE: Also added the new Kago stuff from VICE that I forgot to post originally. But are a little underwhelming visually, but I liked how the first illustration suited the article.
+ Spot illustration for an interesting article on Manga Kissa homelessness.
+ This month's KAGOMANIACS:
Monday, March 09, 2009
WTFUCK (UPDATE: YES!!!!)
The previously posted video of Kazuo Umezu rocking "You Are My Destiny" by Paul Anka was... removed by the user? GODDAMMIT! That breaks my heart. Did anyone happen to rip or save a copy?
UPDATE! A glorious and wonderful anonymous poster has re-uploaded the video to a Japanese blog site! YES YES YES. This is most righteous of you, mysterious hero. I tried to steal the .swf or embed here, but couldn't get it to work. That said, click to CHECK OUT THE VIDEO. The site was super slow to load, but the payoff is so worth it.
UPDATE! A glorious and wonderful anonymous poster has re-uploaded the video to a Japanese blog site! YES YES YES. This is most righteous of you, mysterious hero. I tried to steal the .swf or embed here, but couldn't get it to work. That said, click to CHECK OUT THE VIDEO. The site was super slow to load, but the payoff is so worth it.
YOUR OWN PRIVATE UMEZU
Friday, March 06, 2009
THE KAZUO UMEZU HOUSE... LIVES!
Here is an awesome and ridiculous piece of Umezz fan art from RootStudio (a contributor to The Illustrated Hall of Dark Lords in Electric Ant #1)!
"The real reason Kazuo Umezu's neighbors didn't want him to build that house."
Hope everyone has a Watchmantastic weekend! (Our SF comics crew is seeing it tonight at 10:45pm)
"The real reason Kazuo Umezu's neighbors didn't want him to build that house."
Hope everyone has a Watchmantastic weekend! (Our SF comics crew is seeing it tonight at 10:45pm)
Monday, March 02, 2009
HANGING WITH THE MASTER
It was WonderCon weekend in San Francisco, and despite skipping the con itself, I had a supremely comics-heavy weekend. On Friday, I went with my buddy Anthony and saw the Watchmen exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum. I stood by like a nerd as he met Dave Gibbons, which he blogged on the EAZB.
Saturday night was an unexpected Viz party, and kicking it with another manga buddy, 20th Century Boyz editor Kit. But the real kicker and outing that put Same Hat anniversary weekend over the top for me was... Brunch with the master of manga, Frederik Schodt!
Fred & me talking shop - Pic by Jenn
THE BEST WEEKENDS = ALL COMICS, ALL THE TIME!
PS: Viz misspelled Fred's name on the credits page for Pluto Vol 1 :(
Saturday night was an unexpected Viz party, and kicking it with another manga buddy, 20th Century Boyz editor Kit. But the real kicker and outing that put Same Hat anniversary weekend over the top for me was... Brunch with the master of manga, Frederik Schodt!
Fred & me talking shop - Pic by Jenn
THE BEST WEEKENDS = ALL COMICS, ALL THE TIME!
PS: Viz misspelled Fred's name on the credits page for Pluto Vol 1 :(
4 YEARS OF SAME HAT!
I had lost track of the date at some point, but yesterday I realized that this weekend marks the four year anniversary of Same Hat! How crazy is that?
I distinctly remember pitching the idea of a blog covering weirdo manga to Evan back in 2005, and our feverish work on those initial scanlation strips by Yoshida Sensha. I had just graduated college and was looking for a place to talk with friends about weirdo manga... and have an excuse to use my Japanese degree for something non-evil. Now, 405 posts later, the site's focus has morphed and shifted since the very early days, but I hope we're still going strong.
I wanted to take a second to sincerely thank everyone who has been reading and commenting and emailing since we started. I think of Same Hat as a community more than as simply my blog, and I couldn't ask for a better vehicle for meeting awesome people and learning about cool books, artists, and assorted weirdness from around the globe. Thanks also to everyone for putting up with side-projects and diversions I post here, like the zine, Evan's photography work and other random projects.
To add a little something to this post (other than me waxing nostalgically and getting all teary-eyed), here are a few blasts from the pasts from the Same Hat archive. In the coming weeks (month or so?) I'm gonna work with Evan and friends to launch a proper site on samehat.com, which will include easier browsing of old posts, along with a home for the Same Hat Guide To Everything and other community features. In the meanwhile, enjoy these nuggets:
+ The ORIGINAL Yoshida Sensha strip that launched the site and gave us our name. [link]
+ Subsequently, fan parodies of the ORIGINAL Yoshida Sensha strip! [link] & [link]
+ A massive & ultimate English guide to Umezz's website [link]
+ Our first ever Suehiro Maruo fan scanlation... [link]
+ Long-ass treatise on Junji Ito, Dark Horse and the state of horror manga in 2006 [link]
+ Photographs of the first American Edition of Japanese Manga [link]
+ Our final scanlation from 2007, The Young Bandit by Yoshida Sensha [link]
+ Evan and my first original comic together: THE BIBLE! [link]
+ Umezu-style guide to horror manga makeup [link]
I hope folks continue to dig what I'm doing here (and the manga projects that Evan and I are working on) for coming months and... years!? If there's a specific type of thing you would like to see more of on the site, I wanna hear about it! More text-heavy essay posts? Highlights of different artists or specific series? More of Nate, SH's man-in-Japan? Just let me know and I'll work to make it happen. The site ain't shit without you guys, the readers!
I distinctly remember pitching the idea of a blog covering weirdo manga to Evan back in 2005, and our feverish work on those initial scanlation strips by Yoshida Sensha. I had just graduated college and was looking for a place to talk with friends about weirdo manga... and have an excuse to use my Japanese degree for something non-evil. Now, 405 posts later, the site's focus has morphed and shifted since the very early days, but I hope we're still going strong.
I wanted to take a second to sincerely thank everyone who has been reading and commenting and emailing since we started. I think of Same Hat as a community more than as simply my blog, and I couldn't ask for a better vehicle for meeting awesome people and learning about cool books, artists, and assorted weirdness from around the globe. Thanks also to everyone for putting up with side-projects and diversions I post here, like the zine, Evan's photography work and other random projects.
To add a little something to this post (other than me waxing nostalgically and getting all teary-eyed), here are a few blasts from the pasts from the Same Hat archive. In the coming weeks (month or so?) I'm gonna work with Evan and friends to launch a proper site on samehat.com, which will include easier browsing of old posts, along with a home for the Same Hat Guide To Everything and other community features. In the meanwhile, enjoy these nuggets:
+ The ORIGINAL Yoshida Sensha strip that launched the site and gave us our name. [link]
+ Subsequently, fan parodies of the ORIGINAL Yoshida Sensha strip! [link] & [link]
+ A massive & ultimate English guide to Umezz's website [link]
+ Our first ever Suehiro Maruo fan scanlation... [link]
+ Long-ass treatise on Junji Ito, Dark Horse and the state of horror manga in 2006 [link]
+ Photographs of the first American Edition of Japanese Manga [link]
+ Our final scanlation from 2007, The Young Bandit by Yoshida Sensha [link]
+ Evan and my first original comic together: THE BIBLE! [link]
+ Umezu-style guide to horror manga makeup [link]
I hope folks continue to dig what I'm doing here (and the manga projects that Evan and I are working on) for coming months and... years!? If there's a specific type of thing you would like to see more of on the site, I wanna hear about it! More text-heavy essay posts? Highlights of different artists or specific series? More of Nate, SH's man-in-Japan? Just let me know and I'll work to make it happen. The site ain't shit without you guys, the readers!
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