In last month's Flash In Japan we set the stage by asking a few upcoming international artists to tell us their thoughts on Japan—from manga through to the country's culture—and you can read Part 1 here.
These people are all young, pushing the perimeters of comic book and sequential art along with visual stills, and they're ones I worked with closely in the development of an upcoming noir/comicbook novel, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, out later this year through Perfect Edge Books.
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| Katsuhiro Otomo's innovative, mind-blowing Akira (1988) |
So, for the merry month of May we're continuing our insightful yack, this time focusing on that bastion of global fascination: anime.
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