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Manga Mania!
Posted: February 21, 2011
If you’re in Glasgow this Thursday 24 February, be sure to come along to a panel discussion I’ll be hosting on Global Manga - The Worldwide Impact of Japanese Comics. I’ll exploring the secrets of manga’s success with Japanese illustrator Chie Kutsuwada and Scottish writer Sean Michael Wilson (joining us via Skype from Japan) whose latest manga, The Story of Lee (NBM) and Hagakure: Code of the Samurai Japanese (Kodansha), have just been published in New York and Tokyo. More…
And the following weekend there are two more Manga Events happening in London, both on Saturday March 5th. All day long, Akemi Solloway is presenting the Japanese Bunka-Sai or Cultural Festival at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn with the chance to learn Japanese from anime songs, see martial arts demos and kimono fashion shows, and enjoy cosplay, origami, calligraphy, tea ceremony and much more. More…
Also on Saturday March 5th, starting at 5pm, Helen McCarthy has kindly stepped in to replace me as the speaker on Music in Manga, an illustrated lecture on the portrayals of music in Japanese comics, as part of Hibiki: Resonances from Japan, MU Arts’ three-day celebration of Japanese music, traditional and contemporary, at King’s Place near King’s Cross, London. More…
I wish I could be at both of these great occasions, I highly recommend you go if you can!
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