Tag Archive | "Japan"

Manga Jiman competition and exhibition

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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The Embassy of Japan and partners have again organised the now traditional annual Manga Jiman competition for new manga comics talent in the UK. The award ceremony is due to be held this Friday in the Japanese Embassy in London, where the final selection will be made. Competing for the top prize (a return trip [...]

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Director’s Commentary – the Ax Man Cometh

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Another slightly different entry for you today in our occassional Director’s Commentary series, where we ask creators to talk us through one of their projects. Normally we cover an upcoming or newly released work, but today we talk to the Scottish Comics Samurai, Sean Michael Wilson, a Scots comics scribe living and working in the [...]

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Manga in Fiji

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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Good chum of the blog and Aussie comics, manga and anime expert Michael Hill travelled to Fiji in October at the behest of the Japanese Embassy to take part in a Japanese animation festival, which was part of a Japanese cultural week in the island nation, and he’s written a report for Comics Grid. As [...]

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The Borrower Arrietty

Monday, June 20, 2011

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(trouble finding an English language move poster so here’s the French one for Arrietty, (c) Studio Ghibli) It’s no secret to regular readers of the blog that I’m a huge lover of all forms of animation, so when I got the chance to see the new (well, to us, Japan had it last year!) Studio [...]

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Adrian Tomine and Drawn & Quarterly: limited edition prints for charity

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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The excellent Adrian Tomine and fine independent purveyors of top comics Drawn & Quarterly are coming together to offer some very limited edition signed and numbered prints by Adrian to raise funds towards rebuilding lives and homes after the shattering earthquake and tsnunami in Japan. From the official description: “In response to the devastating Tohoku [...]

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Japan

Monday, March 14, 2011

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Cartoonist Aislin in the Montreal Gazette combines Japanese arts history with the dreadful events of the tsunami and earthquake which happened over the weekend, drawing on Hokusai’s famous Great Wave. A succint and clever shorthand for demonstrating that no sadly matter how advanced our civilisation might become, we’re as powerless in the face of the [...]

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One Piece stamps for Japan

Monday, February 7, 2011

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Helen McCarthy reports that the mail service in Japan will be issuing a series of colourful stamps featuring Eiichiro Oda’s hugely popular manga One Piece, coming in March. (tip of the hat to Peter Stanbury for the link)

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Moresukine – a German cartoonist in Japan

Monday, August 2, 2010

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BoingBoing reports on Dirk Schwieger, a cartoonist from Germany who spent a year living in Japan, an experience he recorded in a comics journal in that medium that has been the trusted travel companion of generations of writers and artists, the Moleskine notebook. Dirk also took suggestions from readers on his blog during his Japanese [...]

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Manga Jiman competition

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

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Once again those very nice people at the Japanese Embassy in London are holding the Manga Jiman competition, which is open to any UK residents over the age of fourteen, with a brilliant first prize of a trip to Japan. It seems to have become a bit of an annual fixture on the UK comics [...]

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Movement from the still image

Friday, March 19, 2010

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We know that animation creates the illusion of movement through a rapid sequence of still images (as indeed does traditional celluloid film, including live action) and that comics creators have long used various devices and tricks to imply action and motion from a still frame to the reader’s eye. The excellent New Scientist has an [...]

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Giant Tokyo Gundam!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

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A short video of the humungous Tokyo Gundam! Man, that is cooler than a penguin’s bum on an ice floe. I wonder if this will inspire the people of Dundee to build a 100 foot tall Oor Wullie? Or maybe New York can add a Statue of Justice next to Lady Liberty like they have [...]

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