Matt Thorn not only has a blog, he has a manga line

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Okay, this is a much better link: the fuller Journalista announcement by Dirk Deppey, who is in great part responsible for this. And the shorter original announcement. And Matt Thorn himself would be good, too right? Yeah.

It is for things like this that I love Dirk Deppey so much. I 'specially enjoyed Dirk's little history on the making of that spectacular shoujo issue for the Comics Journal, a few years back. (I still treasure my copy.)
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~EDIT EDIT~ Aaaand, my write-up in the manga_talk community, here. Man, The last time I unintentionally repeated the word "work" that many times in close succession, I was writing a paper about Richard Smiraglia ("Smiraglia has done wonderful work on this near-comprehensive work on the nature of the work").
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Matt Thorn has a manga line! Or he will soon, anyway. Matt Thorn is apparently going to curate and edit a line of manga for Fantagraphics--is the meeting of a scholar I respect and admire with a publisher I respect and admire, and anticipate I'll be giving a lot more money in coming months.

I actually got a little hysterical with glee when I read the bit about Moto Hagio. I woke my cat up with all the weird noises I made, and he was asleep two rooms over.

By the way, I think I've read some of that Shimura Takako manga mentioned farther down in the article, and if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's pretty fantastic, and cause for celebration all by itself.



Aaaaand I'm going to go lie down until the spasms of joy have passed. I think the last time I was this thrilled was when I heard that VIZ was preparing to publish both 20th Century Boys AND Pluto (at the same time! So I wouldn't have to wait two or three years! Again!).

All My Children (3-9-10)

Sez a YouTube commentor: "rebecca budig u were born to play greenlee smythe...u r carry this soap on ur back right now, girl. "

Truer words were never typed.

David, if you keep standing around the Chandler Mansion tunnels with that match, you're gonna get burned. As burned, physically, as you already have been, metaphorically, by all the gallivanting the fuck around town you were doing 'afore Rebecca Budig came back to the show to play Greenlee and save you from the deep dark hole the crapass writers put you in.

But I get that you are now symbolically sittin' alone in the dark with only that match you just struck to guide and cheer you, and the currently-much-better writers may or may not have intended said match as a metaphor for the-very-very-intense-Greenlee, she who lights your way through the blackness now, but may not last the night, on account of she burns her candle at both ends.

Oh, but, man, she gives you a lovely light.


P.S. Why does the Chandler Mansion have tunnels, anyway? Anybody know?