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Puppet Yonkoma – a manga first from Anime Attacks Gateshead
This time last week I was in Newscastle – well, actually, on the city fringes, over the River Tyne, walking across the High Level Bridge into Gateshead. Although I got there too late for the opening...
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Social change in fandom: Armadacon 07, 1995
Digging in the fannish archives on YouTube, I unearthed this interview from Armadacon 07, which was held over the weekend of 17-19 November 1995. Steve and I were guests at this fabulously friendly...
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Puppet-Making at Anime Attacks 5, Gateshead
After puppet yonkoma, here are some more of the the puppets we made at Gateshead Central Library during Anime Attacks 5. (Faces have been removed to protect everyone’s privacy.) In this post I’m...
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Anime Encyclopedia 3rd edn: Signed, Sealed, Delivered and Yours
Just in time for the holidays, the epic hardback 3rd edition of The Anime Encyclopedia is available with a bookplate signed by both authors! That’s right, both Jonathan Clements and I have scrawled our...
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Drawing Basics Made Easy: new book out now from Flame Tree!
I have a new book in the shops just in time for the holiday gift season. (That’s a hint. A massive one.) It’s published by Flame Tree and you can take a look inside on their website. I had so much fun...
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Shigeru Mizuki 1922-2015
War veteran aged 22, sole survivor of his platoon, amputee, brother of a war criminal. Cinema projectionist, kamishibai artist, manga creator. Scholar, field anthropologist, folklore historian. Man...
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Puppet-Making at Anime Attacks 5, Gateshead
More puppets from the workshop I did in Gateshead. I was amazed at the diversity and energy of the puppets created from basic stationery supplies and waste. Plastic cups make great Daleks, but there...
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Shigeru Mizuki: War Haiku
Shigeru Mizuki and his wife blow out the candles on his 90th birthday cake Shigeru Mizuki, the manga creator who died on 30 November, wasn’t always the genial bald elder of this 90th birthday snap. At...
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Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!
Get your Reality Check today! Rikki Simons and Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons have a Kickstarter for their book Super Information Hijinks: Reaity Check! running until 30 December 2015. (Yes, Virginia, that...
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Doraemon The Movie: Paper Cup Edition
If you’d like to see an amazing piece of animation made with three paper cups, a scalpel, pens and pencils and a ton of love, check this out. I saw it this morning on Twitter and it absolutely blew me...
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