cerusee: a white redheaded girl in a classroom sitting by the window chewing on a pencil and looking bored (SHOCK DISMAY WHAT WHAT)
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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!).
cerusee: a white redheaded girl in a classroom sitting by the window chewing on a pencil and looking bored (mai)
Scans+translation of Poe no Icihizoku, aka The Poe Clan, by Moto Hagio. Not as handy as a scanlation, nor as glorious as would be a commercial English release that I could buy and cradle and drool over, but nevertheless, those of you who know won't be surprised that I'm sitting over there in the corner, quivering and going eeeeeeee.


Those of you who know about old shoujo manga, can you tell me/link me anything about Niohitani Yoshiko and Mizuno Hideko? I'm perilously interested in them, especially the latter, thanks to a wicked cool AB panel on 1960s shoujo romance ("Rock and Romance: Shoujo Manga of the 1960s." The panelist kicked things off by explaining that she'd realized too late that she'd gotten her dates wrong, and the rock influences didn't really come until the 1970s, and therefore that the focus of the panel would actually be on just romance. XD It turns out she went to Japan as a student, and wrote undergrad papers on shoujo manga, and was lucky enough to meet and work with the amazing Matt Thorn. I would stalk this woman, if I only knew where she lived. I would stalk Matt Thorn, except that I know where he lives, and it's in a different hemisphere.) The panelist was of the opinion that Mizuno Hideko merits a place up there in the mangaka canon with Tezuka, or would have, had she not been sidetracked from her comics career by becoming a single mother, that she was pretty much the granddam of shoujo manga and the Magnificent '49ers, and other such amazing things.

Needless to say, them's researchin' words.

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