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The Manga Letters – Search and Destroy by Atsushi Kaneko
American Manga Awards nominee Phil Christie’s work on Search and Destroy is a master class in manga lettering
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Phil Christie is your favorite letterer’s favorite letterer
Great manga lettering is like a date night outfit—it helps people fall in love with what's underneath, even if you'd be hard pressed to consciously explain why. This excellent piece delves into what makes Phil Christie one of the best in the business.
Thank you for reading! Isn't that Hamlet chapter 🤌😘?!
Thank you, Helen
Your endorsement of this book means so much 🙏
Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social, Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com, Shannon & Josh Troetel, Margaret Linn Lutzke, Judith Linn Abbott, everyone else in my whole extended family, all other friends (both offscreen and on), and You.
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9/9
(especially Rich, Amy, and Rodolfo), Frederik L. Schodt, Allison Markin Powell, Greg Baker, Dawn Laabs, Ioannis Mentzas, Mari Morimoto, Ed Chavez @mangacast.bsky.social, Yukari Shiina, Ryan Holmberg, Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social, Akihiko Suzuki, Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social, Roland Kelts,
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support, and advice made this publication possible: My mother Adair Linn Nagata and father Tsutae "Den" Nagata, DI Books co-founder Dallas Middaugh, Aidan Clarke - Letterer Extraordinaire!, everyone at Tezuka Productions (especially Shimizu-san and Ishiwata-san) and ABLAZE Publishing
7/x
drawing hundreds of stories, Dr. Tezuka wrote many essays and multiple autobiographies, the vast majority of which have yet to be made available to the Anglosphere. He wrote short stories, novels, and scripts, too.
Thank you, Tezuka-sensei, and everyone whose kindness,
6/x
- Another Rainbow Parakeet chapter that references The Taming of the Shrew (1981)
- A third Rainbow Parakeet chapter that draws from Othello (1982)
In short essays between chapters, the author shares thespian thoughts, giving readers a taste of his prose. In addition to
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- Two chapters from "Vampires" (1966), which was conceived with Macbeth in mind and includes appearances by the three witches/fortunetellers
- The first chapter of Rainbow Parakeet (1981), about a performance of Hamlet
(Don't miss this one!)
4/x
To give a sense of how the Godfather of Manga's illustrations and storytelling developed over his career, the works are in chronological order of release (of the manga, not the plays).
- The Merchant of Venice (1959)
- Robio and Robiette (from Astro Boy, 1965), translated by Frederik L. Schodt
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Shakespeare Manga Theater may sound like an anthology of manga versions of the Bard's plays, but "The Merchant of Venice" is the only chapter that fits that description. The rest are quality examples of creative adaptation.
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Shakespeare Manga Theater
The second of four Osamu Tezuka books I'm thrilled to be presenting with ABLAZE Publishing and Tezuka Productions.
This one is a collection of Shakespeare-inspired stories told with sequential art.
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"...Tezuka's style, which brings the characters' antics to life. His passion for Shakespeare's stories is evident in his unique take on the tales, and that devotion that makes this collection worthwhile."
Thank you, Nubia Jade Brice
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some relationships
that made me are with people
who only live in
stories but live so strongly
that they are still changing me
#tanka #poetry #librariesforever
Thank you, Ada. I saw your DM on the old site and will reply on this one. I hope you have a wonderful day!
Ooooooh!!!!!
Available at bookstores and
Barnes & Noble bit.ly/3IaRTgy
BAM! bit.ly/3HOiQ82
Amazon amzn.to/3DU8T81
(Links by OASG. Thank you!)
5/5
Deb Aoki @debaoki.bsky.social, Greg Baker, Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social, Frederik L. Schodt, Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social, Ed Chavez @mangacast.bsky.social, Ryan Holmberg, Ben Applegate @benapplegate.com, Roland Kelts,
my family, other friends (both offscreen and on), and You. 4/5
Thank you, Tezuka-sensei, and everyone whose kindness, support, and advice made this publication possible: DI Books co-founder Dallas Middaugh, Tezuka Productions, ABLAZE Publishing, Aidan Clarke, Letterer Extraordinaire! @coyboybeboy.bsky.social 3/5
I’ve read this story dozens of times
as a fan and recently as the English translator and publishing agent.
Re-reading is usually tedious, but this one's a gem that sparkles a little differently each time through. 2/5
One Hundred Tales
A wonderful book (a manga, comic, graphic novel, illustrated story, etc.) by the great Osamu Tezuka, who, in his early forties in 1971, adapted the Faust legend as a samurai period piece in Weekly Shonen Jump. 1/5
In the first of the four panels of the comic, a suited, kind of retro looking man in a room, smoking a pipe explains, "one of the amazing things about comics is you can go anywhere in them! In the next panel, I could be in the Amazon, or on the Nile, or in a far flung city like Prague or Tokyo. Walk this way with me." In the second panel, the room remains, but the man is absent. From out of frame there is a thudding sound, and offscreen he yells "Oof! I can't get out. Why can't I get out?" The man is stuck in the first panel. The third panel follows the second, from the first panel he yells "I'm stuck! Help! Please! The walls are closing in here. I can't- I can't- I need out! Get me out of this frame." Suddenly the man's head is floating in front of some mountains. "Oh great," he says, more bemused than excited. "Yeah, perfect. What is that, the Andes?? Great place to be with no body. Wow. Yeah, the magic of comics."
Comics can take you anywhere
Solar eclipse on April 8
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Congratulations to HOUSES WITH A STORY: A Dragon’s Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore by Seiji Yoshida tr by Jan Mitsuko Cash for the Batchelder Award
Japanese to English translation competitions in 2024!
The JLPP is already open now offering two categories in contemporary and classic literature. You have 6 months to complete them, but they're hard so don't wait until the last week to start!
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I'm gonna paraphrase something @kameronhurley.bsky.social said a number of years ago: Your publisher will try to take as many rights off your work as they can for the least amount of remuneration. Your role is to retain as many rights as possible.
This is the game. It's not personal. Negotiate.
Thank you, Katherine Dacy.
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