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Ryan Holmberg

16 days

PREORDERS OPEN for Shirakawa Marina's UFO MUSHROOM INVASION @LivingtheLine_ , volume 2 of the SMUDGE horror series. Preorders through the publisher's website receive MUSHROOM ZOMBIE and SMUDGE stickers.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Friend of Beloved Pigeon, the “leading pigeon magazine in Japan” (April 1974)

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

6 months

つげ義春の「義男の青春」（１９７４年）に出てくる昔の温泉土産のエロ写真の元ネタを探していますが、誰か心当たりないでしょうか？設定は１９５０年代の湯河原温泉。

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Doing translation edits for @KodanshaUSA . Simple advice for young translators: minimize AND and BUT at the beginning of sentences, and go easy on the JUST and ACTUALLY and REALLY, and JUST NOW. I know they’re in the Japanese, but they’re noise in English if not used sparingly.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Legendary Hagio Moto issue of the fanzine Meikyu (Labyrinth, Spring 1976). Testament to the centrality of shojo manga in the explosion of dojinshi in the 70s and the creation of Comic Market.

Calci

@Calcijp

6 years

コミケ創設当時どんな同人誌があったかちょっとご紹介。迷宮の「ポルの一族」は有名ですが、最初「萩尾望都に愛をこめて」(1976)という同人誌に掲載されました。なんと表紙はガリ版です！今見ても高いクオリティです。

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 months

OUT TODAY! Fukui Eiichi's Igaguri: Young Judo Master (1952-54) from Bubbles. At 22 USD for 352 pages, including a novella-length historical essay, this is a steal-of-a-deal and a must-have for all manga fans. Order here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

New Women’s Alt-Manga License: Yamada Murasaki’s Talk to My Back しんきらり from D&Q, to be published Spring 2022, translation and essay by yours truly via @DandQ

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

New license announcement: Fujiwara Maki's My Picture Diary (1981-82), about life with her husband Tsuge Yoshiharu and their son, will be published by @dandq early next year. More info here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Following on the success of Bat Kid, Bubbles Zine and I will be publishing an English edition of Fukui Eiichi's groundbreaking martial arts manga, Igaguri-kun (1951-54). Hopefully out before the end of the year. More info here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

New license announcement: Yokoyama Yuichi's PLAZA, to be published by @LivingtheLine_ in 2022. Translated/supervised by me.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

6 months

Preorders now open for Fukui Eiichi's IGAGURI: YOUNG JUDO MASTER and the reprint of Inoue Kazuo's BAT KID from Bubbles. Expected release date: April 2024. Info here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Tezuka Osamu against the Vietnam War, for Akahata (Red Flag), the Japanese Communist Party newspaper (Jan 29, 1967). Tezuka was a JCP member.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Tsuge Yoshiharu and Chiba Tetsuya are the first mangaka to become members of the elite Japan Art Academy. Honors aside, according to this article they also get 2.5 million yen a year (21k USD) as "national public servants."

つげ義春さん「自分なんかでよいのだろうか」　芸術院会員選出に驚き：朝日新聞デジタル

　日本芸術院の新会員候補に、「ねじ式」「無能の人」などで知られる漫画家のつげ義春さん（84）が決まった。3月1日付で文部科学相が発令する。新設分野の「マンガ」で選ばれたつげさんは「非常に名誉に感じてい…

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Preorders for Inoue Kazuo's Bat Kid, Japan's first major baseball manga, and Bubbles 12, the special baseball issue, are now open at . The latter includes 2 articles on manga: my Ichiro and Manga, and Rumiko Takahashi & the Hanshin Tigers by @rumicworld1 .

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Following the blockbuster success of Pits of Hell, @breakdownpress will be publishing an English edition of Ebisu Yoshikazu's I Wish I Was Stupid later this year. Thank you @seirinkogeisha for their help licensing this book!

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

5 months

Kawashima Norikazu's psycho-horror classic HER FRANKENSTEIN @LivingtheLine_ now available for preorder:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

I’ve been trying to license Shirato Sanpei for years. I talk about the impact of his work on Toei animation in the 60s (and a little about Miyazaki) in my essay in the paperback edition of Hayashi Seiichi’s Red Colored Elegy @DandQ

ehoba

@htGOIW

3 years

Princess of Mononoke was inspired by Ninja Bugeicho, but that's not often mentioned in English analysis articles. (Miyazaki has been inspired by it many times.) Ninja Bugeicho was translated into Italy. I hope someone will translate it into English.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Abe Shinzo was a fascist, militarist, and historical denialist. Yet today, I've witnessed more than one organization that supports research and understanding about Japan, with ostensibly liberal missions, not only offer public condolences, but also honor his "accomplishments."

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Wow, Elfquest is legit good! Wish I hadn't ignored it when I was a kid. I want to know more about Wendy Pini's manga influences. I want to see what manga she bought in the 70s and 80s. Frank Miller really hogs the spotlight in terms of early manga-influenced American comics.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Started writing the essay for Nejishiki @DandQ today. Hoping to finish in a month. Basic facts will more than max out the word count, but what do you want to hear about? Zero promises.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Year-end roundup: 60,000 words, 1500 pages of translated manga, and sundry other jobs. Thanks to all the publishers and institutions that kept me fed and watered this year! More here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

The impact of Lone Wolf and Cub on American comics is well known, but how about Shirato Sanpei's Kamui? Do you know any artists who have professed being influenced by the 1987-88 Viz/Eclipse translation, or of any comics that suggest such influence? For an article I'm writing.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Dear all, I now have a website——where you’ll find a comprehensive survey of my writing, translation, and other professional output. Designed and coded by the amazing and brilliant Lauren Lamborne @loubaega !!

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Ishinomori Shotaro, 1960s shojo manga collection (Chikuma, 2021). One reads a lot about Ishinomori's impact on female artists in the 60s and 70s, poetic panels and exploded layouts etc, so was curious to learn more. Definitely worth reading.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

For a look at how overwork has been killing Japanese cartoonists since at least the 1950s—and shaping the visual language of manga—check out my 2015 article about Fukui Eiichi @ComicsJournal :

fornt half batman

@alubenket

5 years

a well known short comic about the power of sleep by Shigeru Mizuki, the author of Gegege no Kitaro. haven't seen en translation so i did one! this comic comes up every so often among artists and creators as a lesson and i hope it helps you too.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Ishinomori Shotaro cover art and illustrations for the Japanese paperback edition of Dune.

GBird

@GBird009

5 years

かつて日本でデューンと言えばこの絵だったんだよなあ🤔 カバーも挿絵も石森章太郎(当時は”石森”)という贅沢さ❗️🤩 絵のためだけに買った人も多かったのでは？ 4枚目は砂丘の子供たちより。構図が佐武と市っぽい😉 #デューン砂の惑星 #石ノ森章太郎 #矢野徹 #ハヤカワ文庫

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

My essay “The Demon Ball: Sports Manga, Visual Dynamism, and the Makyu” is now available for free download on my website. Since it was designed as a pamphlet for @NaughtonGallery , you’ll have to rotate the PDF to read it. Find it here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Tsuge Tadao's Boat Life @floatingworldcomics preview photos below. Due out in December. Preorder open now:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

More Okazaki Kyoko in English is good news. Truly one of the most important mangaka of the late 20th century.

Becky CloOOoOoOonan 👻

@beckycloonan

2 years

Honored to design the cover for the English edition of Kyoko Okazaki’s incredible manga River’s Edge! It feels good to stretch different art muscles, especially for such a powerful book… River’s Edge is out in December from @KodanshaManga ! 🌾💀🌃

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 years

For you yokai thumpers out there, the next Mandarake auction has a yokai themed auction featuring, among other rare goodies, a full set of the original kashihon version of Mizuki’s Kitaro

まんだらけ編集部

@mandarakeeditor

4 years

10月1日発売のZENBU100号は「妖怪特集」、古今東西の妖怪・モンスターをはじめ3200超の希少アイテムを用意して皆様の参加をお待ちしております。ヴィンテージ系でも水木しげる貸本漫画「墓場鬼太郎」シリーズ全15冊を完全網羅。お楽しみに

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Alt-shojo manga. Okada Fumiko's Glass Ball (1976) and A Drop of Water (1978). COM's first amateur star, debuting in 1967. Big influence on Hagio Moto, Tsurita Kuniko, and others. Homework for my Yamada Murasaki essay @DandQ , another COM neophyte star.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

FYI alt-manga fans: this is a Garo manga (1986-87). It's awesome. I tried to license it around the same time as Tsurita Kuniko's Sky is Blue, but Uchida-sensei told me it was already taken. Psyched to see it finally coming out. @fantagraphics

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Out now! Yamada Murasaki's Talk To My Back @DandQ . "A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists." Translated and with a career-spanning essay by me.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Attempts have been made to license her work in the past. Maybe it’s time for a revisit…

adam

@Kumerish

3 years

Stumbled onto Takano Fumiko's work on pinterest and...how has none of it been translated into english? Such gorgeous cartooning. PLEASE.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 years

Delightful but strange to learn that Sky Is Blue @DandQ has probably outsold all previous 3 Japanese book editions of Tsurita Kuniko’s work collectively. Except for that 1970 Garo special issue, which was reportedly reprinted in its day. (Sorry for the bad photo.)

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Shirato Sanpei and his brother Okamoto Tetsuji, who drew many of his works, have passed away, four days apart (October 8 and October 12).

ビッグコミック編集部

@bigcomic_mg

3 years

【訃報】白土三平氏岡本鉄二氏ご逝去本誌にて『カムイ伝第二部』などを連載いただきました漫画家・白土三平氏が誤嚥性肺炎のため、その作画を担当された弟の岡本鉄二氏が間質性肺炎のため、4日違いで相次いで逝去されました。

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 years

Ad announcing Mizuki Shigeru’s Hakaba no Kitaro being turned into a TV anime, from Garo (December 1967), right before they decided to rename the series Gegege no Kitaro since Graveyard Kitaro sounded too creepy.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

From a Kodansha’s kids magazine published in 1940, a volume titled 漫画と面白繪話. That’s the Manchukuo flag on the right.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 years

Artist Kawakatsu Tokushige has edited a volume of horror and gruesome fantasy manga going back to the early postwar period. As Kawakatsu knows a ton about old and obscure manga, as well as alt and mainstream, this promises to be very good.

かわかつとくしげ（川勝徳重）

@old_schooooool

4 years

【NOW ON SALE】ちくま文庫『現代マンガ選集〈恐怖と奇想〉』選者・解説を川勝徳重がやりました。テーマは「紙芝居！戦後！変な動物！」〈恐怖と奇想〉を扱う漫画は本来的にマージナル（周縁的）なものです。戦後漫画史のオルタナティヴがこの一冊に。 #恐怖と奇想　#丸尾末広　#小松崎茂　#楠勝平

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 years

Should female mangaka have female translators? Should male mangaka have male translators? I’m not asking about gender balance in the industry, but in terms of voice and language and representation (“speaking for others”), does the gender of the translator matter?

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

One of my favorite books: Contemporary Manga Elegy (Seirindo, 1970), a collection of conversations between Garo artists and major critics, poets, and artists, originally scattered about in issues of Garo. The single-best primary source related to classic Garo.

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@seirinkogeisha

2 years

気になっていた『対談録現代マンガ悲歌』（青林堂：初版1970年10月5日）をようやくゲット！　これは持っていなかったので嬉しい。あとがきには各対談のエピソードも書かれていて面白い。気がせってとりあえずパラパラ読みしたけど、時間を作ってゆっくり読みたい。

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

The Death of Nekojiru. Interesting documentary about the work and suicide of one of 90s Garo's most iconic artists. Subtitle translations by @slimgiltsoul .

The Death of Nekojiru

translation in progress. this video first aired 20 years ago

www.youtube.com

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Almost forgot: I’m giving a talk titled “A History of Modern Manga: A Hundred Years in Ten Works” for Duke University next Tuesday, March 16, at 2pm EST. It’s for a class, but open to the public. Info and rsvp here:

A History of Modern Manga: A Hundred Years in Ten Works

Open to the public. RSVP to Bill Fick for Zoom link: [email protected] This lecture will offer a blitzkrieg history of modern Japanese comics (manga) through snapshots of the ten most important...

aahvs.duke.edu

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Sugiura Shigeru's 杉浦茂 Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke 猿飛佐助 (1969) will be published by @NYRcomics in 2023, translation and essay by me. More info here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

The Eisner's "Best US Edition of International Material—Asia" category should be renamed "Best US Edition of Shonen and Shonen-adjacent Manga by Male Artists mainly working for Shogakukan and Shueisha" category.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

6 months

石井隆との対談には、下記の説明があります。

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Ikegami Ryoichi Garo covers. Ikegami’s kashihon and Garo work: another anthology worth doing in English.

川蝉☆奇蹟の月🌻

@kawasemi_11

3 years

おはようございます。本日もよろしゅうに。良い一日を。 #ガロ #池上遼一

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Manga: the highest ellipses-to-letter ratio in the history of human writing.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

5 months

Looking for the original painting on which the baby in this page from Sugiura Shigeru's Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke (1969) is based. The head has obviously been replaced, but I suspect the body, chair, and rattle are close to exact. For my essay for the English edition @NYRcomics .

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@mangaberg

2 years

Me and Tetsuka Noriko, Garo's first full-time female editor (hired 1979) and president of Seirinkogeisha, when I interviewed her in 2019 (unpublished). Found this while searching my name in Japanese.

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@seirinkogeisha

5 years

日本のマンガ研究者で今回は蛭子さんのイギリス版「地獄に堕ちた教師ども」の解説もてがけているライアン、本日は80年代あたりのガロについての取材でご来社。しかしデカいぞライアン＆チビッ子すぎるぞアタチ、つーワケで、帰国するまでバタバタらしいけど、お体に気を付けて！

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

1 year

Essay by me in the new issue of October @mitpress : "Anti-Manga: Sasaki Maki, Ishiko Junzo, and Avant-Garde Comics in Japan."

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

10 months

PREORDERS OPEN!! Ebisu Yoshikazu's @ebisu_jp I WISH I WAS STUPID and THE PITS OF HELL (reprint) @breakdownpress . Both shipping November 13th. Order here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Imai Arata's F @glacierbaybooks is out! This is, hands down, the most hardcore artistic response to the Fukushima disaster in any medium. You won't be disappointed! Support the artist @arataimai and publisher by purchasing a copy here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

11 months

Weird and Rare Manga That I Own @SPXcomics . Saturday, September 9, 130PM. A talk about weird and rare manga that I own.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

I asked manga scholar Fujimoto Yukari about the history of press coverage of women mangaka's private life. As an early example, she pointed to the frequent coverage of Ikeda Riyoko's wealth, marriages, and dalliances since the late 70s. Overview here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

8 months

Just for the record, before people start making assumptions and asking me things: I am only tangentially involved in this project. More information to follow from the publisher.

choolete

@ChooleteManga

8 months

THIS IS HUGE!!! Kamui Den is getting an English release‼️😍 @mangaberg

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Whoever writes that history of lettering practices in translated manga, I feel like an important question is: when did designers/letterers start receiving artwork and lettering in separate layers from Japanese licensors?

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

4 years

I would definitely buy a book about the history of American manga in the 1980s and 90s, with lots of images and synopses, detailed coverage of early manga translation, and its impact on American comics more generally.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

On the subject of Mizuki Shigeru's authorship, I read a Tsuge Yoshiharu interview today where he says that, for Mizuki's Kondo Isami (1970-72), Mizuki only provided him dialogue (in layout presumably) and he had to pencil everything and ink almost all the supporting characters.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Went to the comics studies section of my local university library today for first time since COVID. 1) Surprised by how many academic books there are now about comics 2) Dismayed that vast majority of them are about rethinking superheroes or the cultural legitimacy of comics.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

I wonder if they'll talk about how much he plundered from American comics, Japanese photographers, and Edo period yokai art--literally thousands of images. Probably not. Some day there will be reckoning with Mizuki's legacy.

choolete

@ChooleteManga

2 years

NHK will broadcast 5 shows about Mizuki Shigeru during the rest of the month. Some if not all will be available on NHK Plus service for a short time.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Comps arrive on two manga projects that couldn't be more different: Imai Arata's @arataimai F (2015) @glacierbaybooks and Inoue Kazuo's Bat Kid (1948) from Bubbles Zine. Please support small press publishing and buy a copy of each!

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@mangaberg

4 years

Did you know Fujiwara Maki drew and wrote a picture diary covering the same years fictionalized in her husband Tsuge Yoshiharu’s The Man Without Talent? Read about it here:

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@mangaberg

3 years

This was interesting: Zuo Ma’s Night Bus @DandQ translated by @para_systems . If you’re into Garo-esque oneiric comics, this is definitely for you! I’m really curious now about the relationship between Garo and the Chinese comics scene.

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@mangaberg

2 years

Wow! Old fliers from Joker Jeans Shop, run by Tsuge Tadao's family, drawn by Tadao himself. I've never seen these before!

KONFUNK

@KONFUNK

2 years

つげ忠男さんは奥様と流山で何十年もジーンズショップを経営されてるんですが、これはそのお店の30年くらい前のチラシ！地元の折り込みで見てた人たちはこれがつげさんのイラストだなんて意識してなかったかも知れないですね。忠男さんマニアでも多分あまり持ってない超貴重な代物！

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@mangaberg

3 years

While I wish I had more peer review-type publications on my CV, I have to admit that seeing my name in print in a zine is still more satisfying than seeing it in an academic journal. I’d rather be part of a scene and a community than a database.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Yokoyama Yuichi's PLAZA @LivingtheLine_ is out! Currently available at: . Soon also at bookstores near you. I'll be helping to hawk it in person at SPX (on Saturday the 17th at least).

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

When writing history, "the first of" "the original" "the only" "never" "no connection" rarely holds up in the long-run. Best to defer to "that I know of" "first known" "one of the earliest" etc, even if it's wordy and timid. Composing an IG post on my own recent f'ups on this.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Reading all the Takahashi Rumiko I can get my hands on today, in prep for my talk tomorrow. Haven’t read her work since I was a kid. Great stuff! Keeps reminding me of @AkinoKondoh , too...

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

Sitting through the boobs boobs and more boobs in Chainsaw Man episode 2 makes me wonder how juvenile and toxic the work environments at Shonen Jump and the average shonen mangaka's studio are. I'd read (and translate) an exposé about that.

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@mangaberg

3 years

As people may know, Tezuka’s Crime & Punishment is super important for the history of mystery manga and gekiga. For example, Tsuge Yoshiharu lifted whole pages from it when he first started out, as depicted in the essay in The Swamp @DandQ

Deb Aoki

@debaoki

3 years

While looking up what's in print/what's not for the Classics to Comics panel for @libcomix on Wednesday, I found that Digital Manga is releasing the print edition of Crime & Punishment by Osamu Tezuka this month: . It's available in digital now too.

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@mangaberg

3 years

EXCLUSIVE!! Next issue of Bubbles: Tezuka Osamu’s American comics collection, on sale February 13th

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@mangaberg

3 years

Imai Arata’s @arataimai post-Fukushima dystopian manga F (2015) is now available for pre-order from @glacierbaybooks . The book includes a detailed essay by me based on extensive interviews with the artist. Order here:

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@mangaberg

4 years

The Translator Without Talent is now out! You can purchase it directly from Bubbles: . We’re looking into getting it stocked in bookstores outside the USA, as international shipping for individual copies is criminally expensive.

The Translator Without Talent by Ryan Holmberg

400 Pages Black and White Perfect Bound "Despite having only two dozen manga translations, 80 essays, 50 reviews, one exhibition pamphlet, and...

www.bubbleszine.com

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@mangaberg

3 years

Wrapped up my History of Manga class at SAIC. In a student body that was 2/3 women, the artists they responded to most positively and imaginatively were Tsurita Kuniko and Okazaki Kyoko, followed by Ikeda Riyoko and Yamada Hanako. Many found Hagio Moto's Thomas to be voyeuristic.

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@mangaberg

3 years

As Red Flowers @DandQ makes its way out into the world, I'm already seeing a few "Tsuge Yoshiharu is Japan's Robert Crumb"-type taglines in reviews. Was hoping this wouldn't happen. It's so misleading on so many levels.

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@mangaberg

3 years

Out this fall: Inoue Kazuo’s Bat Kid (1947-49), the first major baseball manga in Japan. Will include a copiously illustrated essay by me, and published by Bubbles. More info here:

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

2 years

I recently turned down an offer to teach a class on anime. I know too little and the prep time would've been inordinate. Anime's just not my thing. Since I work on manga, people think that's a contradiction. But not to me. I love baroquely stylized live action movies though.

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@mangaberg

4 years

つげ義春マニアの皆さま、長八の宿に現れる山光荘のパンフレットを添付します。下記のブログによれば、なんかの旅雑誌に掲載されたそうですが、何雑誌の何年何月かわかりますか？今度の英語版の解説に参考図版として使用したいです！

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@mangaberg

3 years

New article! “The Face Eater, and Other Japanese I’ve Learned from Kondoh Akino,” Bubbles no. 11. This is the English version of the Japanese article I wrote for the @AkinoKondoh issue of Eureka (March 2021). Available here:

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@mangaberg

6 months

Suspiria: my favorite movie ever. First saw it as kid growing up in Japan in the 1980s, where you could find everything and anything in video stores, and they'd let you rent anything regardless of your age, except porn.

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@PrettyVacantJap

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@mangaberg

1 year

Fascinated by Masaoka Kenzo's Animation Lecture Notes 政岡憲三動画講義録, but not sure exactly how to use them in my essay about Fukui Eiichi, who worked under Masaoka in the postwar 40s before turning to manga:

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@mangaberg

4 years

If anyone doubts the social impact of shonen manga, my 9 yr old stepson has been reading Fire Force for 2 days and today “floozy” and “nude anime girls” showed up on his search history. Also “do stegosaurus have brains in their butts,” so can’t blame everything on shonen manga.

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@mangaberg

3 years

SFX plate. Guessing the bear pairing is intentional.

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@mangaberg

2 years

Started Yukimura Makoto's Vinland Saga @KodanshaManga . So far so good! God bless public libraries and their never-big-enough manga budget. Without them, I'd have to resort to scanlations to pretend like I know something about mainstream manga of the past 30 years.

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@mangaberg

3 years

Someone asked at my lecture about Tezuka and Kirby ever meeting. I didn’t know, but apparently they did, see below. Forwarded by Michael Avolio.

Cartoonist Pics

@Fotosdecomics

6 years

Inkpot Award winners 1980. John Byrne, Len Wein, Chris Claremont, Jim Shooter, Jack Kirby, Osamu Tezuka and many others.

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@mangaberg

3 years

For every 100 tweets I read by white people complaining about being discriminated against in Japan, I see maybe 1 about how being white probably got them that job in Japan and how much privilege accrues to them because of their race.

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@mangaberg

3 years

Of the nine or so manga translations I have in the pipeline, three and potentially four will probably have to be shrink-wrapped. Feel free to guess what they are, though I will neither confirm nor deny.

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@mangaberg

3 years

Reminds me: I feel morally obligated to do an unlicensed collection of knock-off Mickey manga from the 1930s

Minovsky

@MinovskyArticle

3 years

Disney's been classifying streaming media as home video to take advantage of outdated laws and avoid sharing their contractually obligated profits.

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@mangaberg

4 years

We Still Here @marclamonthill . Fantastic pithy synthesis of the past year in theoretical terms. His book on racism in the police and legal system, Nobody (2017), is also highly recommended.

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@mangaberg

3 years

Really enjoying Yeong-Shin Ma’s Moms @DandQ translated by @JanetHong333 . Is it just me, or does the drawing (the cover not a good example) have an Ebisu Yoshikazu vibe to it?

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@mangaberg

2 years

When I first got into contemporary Japanese culture in my 20s in the late 90s, I remember Okazaki Kyoko being prominent even in the art world. She was a central figure in that wider Neo-Pop moment before it got reduced to Murakami Takashi's Superflat.

ehoba

@htGOIW

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Just about a half of Kyoko Okazaki's works. River's Edge was released in the late phase of her career. She was aware of the dark side of the happy '80s culture from the beginning, but even such happiness disappered in this era. The word "survival" explains River's Edge well.

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Ryan Holmberg

@mangaberg

3 years

Saturday reading with classic @VIZMedia

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@mangaberg

2 years

Nice documentary below about recent alt-manga, focusing on Yuriko Akase 赤瀬由里子 @akaseyuriko and Junichiro Saito 斎藤潤一郎 @JunichiroSaito , and the publisher Torch @_to_ti , with English subtitles even.

Archipel | アルシペル

@SailToArchipel

2 years

Discover alternative paths to become a mangaka through a day spent with artists @AkaseYuriko and @JunichiroSaito , whose diametrically different styles range from watercolor science-fiction to hard-boiled noir violence. Out now on Archipel:

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@mangaberg

3 years

Another reason why I’m about a year away from staring my own publisher. I got the skills, I got the connections, just need to commit time to learning book production. I’d make better sense for income, but probably destroy me as a scholar.

エマ・clay bird in mourning

@Quanticat

3 years

it's funny sometimes to listen to people talk about the economics of small press publishing because the costs for translated work, especially translated comics & manga etc are so wildly different (more expensive relatively) versus stuff that's already done in English originally..

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@mangaberg

3 years

If you have so few manga that they all fit on shelves, you’re not a manga collector. How do you categorize your cardboard boxes? That’s the question.

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@debaoki

3 years

Random manga collector question: how do you shelve your manga? By title? author? publisher? genre? or some other way you organize it?

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@mangaberg

3 years

Best first page in all of manga? Natsuko Ishitsuyo’s @ishitsuyo Magician A, published by @TheBeguiling , translated by Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook .

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@mangaberg

3 years

Let’s not get too crazy: Tezuka’s New Treasure Island as potentially more influential in world history than The Communist Manifesto, according to the first lines of 中川右介「手塚治虫とトキワ荘」(2019). Tezuka’s deification dies hard.

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@mangaberg

2 years

If you understand Japanese, this is an incredibly interesting and informative lecture about early modern manga history and the impact of the 1923 Great Kano Earthquake on cartoonists and the industry.

川崎市市民ミュージアム

@kawasaki_museum

2 years

【川崎市市民ミュージアム講座(オンライン)】昔の漫画に詳しくなろう！「漫画の歴史は関東大震災が変えた！？」編本日より、漫画分野の講座の配信を開始しました！関東大震災に直面した漫画家たちの活動と、その後の漫画表現の変化について、当館学芸員がご紹介します！

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@mangaberg

8 months

For people asking if Kamui-den hasn't already been published in English: no, not the original Garo series from 1964-71. Viz did part of Kamui gaiden from the 80s. Details here:

Manga Mogura RE (Manga & Anime News)

@MangaMoguraRE

8 months

Cult historical social drama manga "Kamuiden" by Sanpei Shirato will be released in English in Fall 2024 by @DandQ in 10 volumes. Epic Historical Manga Series from the 1960s originally published in famous gekiga alternative manga magazine Garo set in Edo Period about three men

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