This week, Tim talks with two women who are mixing Japanese and Western influences in their comics!
First, Ana Moreno, former US Marine and writer of Marine Corps Yumi, drawn in a gag-manga style by Takeshi Nogami. A gag manga about joining the Marines?! (available in both English and Japanese)
Then, Aussie Madeleine Rosca, creator of Hollow Fields (reviewed on last week’s show). Why does her work read right to left? Does she get any guff from readers about imitating a Japanese style? Also, the art of revealing neither too many nor too few secrets as your story moves forward, and more.
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RIP Anastasia Moreno. We’ve lost one of the best people that this world truly needed.
Fair winds and following seas, Ana, wherever you are.
Semper Fidelis
From time to time I read again Marine Corps Yumi and this time I found this interview, it was rewarding hearing her. Thanks for the interview
RIP Anastasia Moreno
Yes, I was really sorry to see her go so soon. RIP
Thank you for preserving Ana’s voice. I only discovered the manga not to long ago and was really intrigued by it coming from a Marine’s real experience, only to find that the author had passed away.
It’s good to know she got to speak about her own experience in making this manga.
Yeah, it’s really unfortunate she was gone so soon. In retrospect, glad we got this one recorded for the ages!