Helen McCarthy was in Kuala Lumpur recently to give a talk about Tezuka Osamu. In KL she was interviewed by Elizabeth Tai of the Malaysia Star who wrote an article — Veteran Otaku: How did an English lady get hooked on a Japanese phenomenon some three decades ago?

OCLC’s new “Worldcat Identities” provides an overview of how widely Helen McCarthy’s books are collected in libraries worldwide. Many are at Ohio State, but not the newest one (yet).

This quarter Sarah Kniss, a senior at Ohio State, has been indexing McCarthy’s book. 500 Manga Heroes and Villains, on Carmenwiki to help improve access to the book, connect it with the manga in our collection, and encourage people to look more closely at characters in manga. That’s a great way to start doing research into manga. This is part of a larger project in which Sarah is exploring “professional writing” while promoting Ohio State’s manga collection.