The conclusion of the Hagio interview, in which she talks about layout, dramatic adaptations of her work, and comes to some realizations about the impact that her family life has on her work.
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The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part Four of Four)
Posted by admin on March 12th, 2010 at 12:01 AM The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part Three of Four)
Posted by admin on March 11th, 2010 at 12:01 AMHagio on the formation of the Forty-Niners and the Boy’s Love genre, themes in her work, repackaging comics in trades and male teenage vampires.
I also like her creepy vampire kids.
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on March 10th, 2010 at 1:57 PMOne of the first manga I ever read, back in college when I was plunging into the dorky depths of anime fandom, was Moto Hagio’s A, A’, published by Viz during an abortive early attempt to sell Americans on shojo…
The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part Two of Four)
Posted by admin on March 10th, 2010 at 12:01 AMHagio on what she read as a child and teenager, her influences, breaking in and the O-izumi Salon.
The Moto Hagio Interview conducted by Matt Thorn (Part One of Four)
Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010 at 1:40 PMDue to yesterday’s announcement, tcj.com is reprinting the Moto Hagio interview from TCJ #269 in four parts.
Journalista reputation-destroying extra: Four years’ work
Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 8th, 2010 at 11:50 AM
As you might be aware, I generally try to avoid product announcements in this blog — with that going double for Fantagraphics products, what with the obvious “Dirk=company whore” connotations they bring. Nonetheless, I’ve spent the last four… long… years helping nurture this one into being, and pretty much demanded the right to be the one to break the news. And since Amazon just beat me to it, I might as well make the announcement here:
Panel from “The Willow Tree,” ©2010 Moto Hagio/Shogakukan.
Fantagraphics has signed an agreement with Shogakukan to launch a full manga line edited and curated by Matt Thorn.
For the record: Four years is a hell of a long time to keep a secret.
All My Darling Daughters
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on March 8th, 2010 at 9:00 AMFumi Yoshinaga is not at her best in the short story form. In longer series, her weakness for glib psychoanalyzing can be overwhelmed by her virtues: sublime nonsense in Antique Bakery; a matchless feel for character interaction and development in Ooku. In All My Darling Daughters, though, the tales get clipped off with pat endings and pat-er moralizing before Yoshinaga can plumb either nonsensical heights or emotional depths. 
I mean, seriously. Bleach?
Posted by Shaenon Garrity on March 3rd, 2010 at 4:48 PMManga fans are pissed about some guy copying panels from Bleach for his comic, and rightly so. He could have at least picked a manga with an interesting art style, like One Piece, maybe. And he could have tried not…
Noah Berlatsky on Book of Friends
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on February 10th, 2010 at 9:00 AMI haven’t read a ton of manga, but it seems lately that every one I do read involves someone who is able to see ghosts and spirits.
Dinosaur King Vol. 1
Posted by Noah Berlatsky on February 8th, 2010 at 9:00 AMYohei Sakai; Vizkids; $7.99, 192 pp.; B&W, Softcover; ISBN: 978-1421532530
There should be more American comics like this.
Not that this is a great comic. Or a good comic. Or a comic that in any way…
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