Above, our Tokyo correspondent, English teacher, and dem fine cartoonist J M Schmidt peruses MONGREL 4 at the station. His comics novels* Egg Story (currently being translated into Esperanto!), Eating Steve and The Sixsmiths (this last with writer Jason Franks) are all great books, and recommended for your reading eyes.
Seeing a MONGREL being read in this, the emblematic illustration of the ubiquity of manga culture in Japan ( 'In Japan, people read comics On The Trains! Really!') is highly delightful to me.
See? No-one's staring at the comics-reading gaijin like he's out of his mind or anything. I have written an introduction to JM's collection of hilarious shorter comics stories, 'All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge', which will be published by Milk Shadow Books later this year.
Sugoi. Domo arigato gozaimasu, Schmidt JM!
*a new and entirely satisfactory way of referring to 'graphic novels', invented (I think) by my friend Anne Radvansky last night
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It is true what they are saying, my comic Egg Story has indeed been published in Esperanto. Click on any of these three words to see some pages!
Looking forward to #5 of Mongrel, Mr B!
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