Manga

Propa-manga? Manga CVN 73 released in Yokosuka

Maureen Donovan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:36:34 +0000

Has anyone else been following the US Navy’s release of a manga entitled and commissioned from Japanese cartoonists?

Here’s a news report about it–

Cartoon is Navy’s envoy to anxious Japanese By Philip Ewing
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/06/navy_comicbook_061408w/

English and Japanese versions are available at:
http://www.cnfj.navy.mil/Manga.html

Discussing manga bibliography with Egami Toshinori of Kyoto U Library

Maureen Donovan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:41:49 +0000

Last month Toshinori Egami (江上敏哲), a rare book librarian at Kyoto University Library who has been visiting and cataloging rare books at Harvard-Yenching Library for the past year, came to Ohio State to see the manga collection in the Cartoon Research Library. (more…)

Technorati

Maureen Donovan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:36:09 +0000

Technorati Profile

Shiriagari Kotobuki in Bijutsu Techo Nov 2007 issue

Maureen Donovan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:37:21 +0000

The last time I wrote about Shiriagari Kotobuki there was a nice link from the Completely Futile blog (Thanks so much!!!). That kind of positive feedback is really wonderful!

In the latest November ‘07 issue of Bijutsu Techo Kotobuki discusses the Choju Jinbutsu Giga, the 12th century scroll of frolicking animals that is often considered to be Japan’s first manga, with art historian Yamashita Yuji. They discuss the scroll from their respective points of view. The issue coincided with an exhibit of all four scrolls at the Suntory Museum.

73 titles now come up in a Worldcat.org search on Shiriagari Kotobuki — including some new ones that I should order for Ohio State’s collection!

Kyoto International Manga Museum

Maureen Donovan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:38:22 +0000

The Kyoto International Manga Museum opened on November 25! Its web site is a major new resource about manga:
http://www.kyotomm.com/

Anime Punch — Manga Panel

Maureen Donovan — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:17:29 +0000

The Columbus Anime Convention — “Anime Punch” will be next weekend! (more…)

Inu Yasha

Maureen Donovan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:34:50 +0000

The last reading in the freshman seminar was Inu Yasha by Takahashi Rumiko. We had a good discussion about what makes it such a popular manga. Also, we reflected on what we’d all learned over the past ten weeks. The seminar was a great success, thanks to a wonderful group of students. We had a lot of lively discussions and everyone participated actively.

For the last class I brought the manga collection’s treasure, an original page from a story manga by Tezuka Osamu. It was exhibited during the Astro Boy Birthday (April 7, 2003) celebration and exhibit.

Also, I brought some other resources related to the class discussions that day — (more…)

Ishinomori Shotaro

Maureen Donovan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:21:25 +0000

My freshman seminar ended last week. One of the mangaka that we read is Ishinomori Shotaro. I just put in an order for the 500 volume Ishinomori daizenshu (complete works) that has just started coming out. It will be published at the rate of about 40 volumes every three months during 2006-2008.

Here are some resources in the manga collection related to Ishinomori Shotaro — (more…)

Alison Raab’s thesis

Maureen Donovan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:15:49 +0000

Alison Raab’s MS thesis, “Manga in Academic Library Collections: Definitions, Strategies, and Bibliography for Collecting Japanese Comics,” (more…)

Four Immigrants Manga

Maureen Donovan — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:40:08 +0000

The first assignment for the manga seminar is Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama’s The Four Immigrants Manga translated, with an introduction and notes by Frederik L. Schodt.
Ohio State’s copy of the original 1931 edition (Manga yonin shosei / Henry Kiyama Yoshitaka 漫畵四人書生 / ヘンリー木山義喬) (published in San Francisco) is from the collections of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, Bill Blackbeard, Director.
We’re also reading Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics.