On October 20, Tim and Mulele visited the International Manga Festival (Kaigai Manga Festa) at Tokyo Big Sight. Comics creators from around the world were exhibiting their work to an enthusiastic mostly-Japanese crowd. This week: part one of our report.
Info on all the exhibitors we talk to in this episode is below!
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| 9:10 | Ryan Cecil Smith (USA) Graeme McNee (Scotland) |
SF (issue 1 review on Critiquing Comics) Ryan interviewed by Kumar Minimal Comics (Critiquing Comics review) |
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Graeme & Ryan |
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| 24:58 | Patrick Ijima-Washburn (USA) Tomoko Hirabayashi (Japan) |
Hexenringe | The festival on Pat’s blog Encyclopedia of Witches & Wizards |
 Pat W (r) met Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) at the festival! |
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| 29:34 | Steven Cummings (USA) | Udon Entertainment |
 Steven Cummings (l) |
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| 31:10 | Sketchfro (USA) | Where the Wind Takes Us |
“SketchFro” (Christopher Taylor) |
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| 33:14 | Yoshimi Nakase (Japan) | Sand Dust |
 Yoshimi Nakase |
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| 36:30 | David Namisato (Canada) | The Long Kingdom, Life After the BOE |
 David Namisato |
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| 38:17 | Kim Hoang (and Mimi) from Love Love Hill (Canada) | Love Love Hill on Tumblr |
 Kim & Mimi |
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| 44:01 | Miguel Sternberg (Canada) | Spooky Squid Games |
 Miguel Sternberg |
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| 45:04 | Christine Love (Canada) | Love Conquers All Games |
 Christine Love |
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| 45:56 | Miles Baker (Canada) | Toronto Comic Arts Festival |
 Miles Baker |
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| 47:50 | Akiko Shimojima (Japan) | |
 Akiko Shimojima & Sean Michael Wilson (hear him at 50:50, below) |
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| 49:12 | Carl (Philippines) | Philippine comics |
 Carl (center) and friends at the Philippine comics table |
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| 50:50 | Sean Michael Wilson (Scotland) | 47 Ronin, Fight the Power |
| 53:27 | Foo Swee Chin (Singapore) | Muzz |
 Foo Swee Chin |
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| 55:53 | Ryusuke Hamamoto (Japan) | Ryusukeworks.com |
 Ryusuke Hamamoto |
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| 1:00:24 | Angelo “Mokutan” Levy (Brazil) | Iara |
 Angelo “Mokutan” Levy |
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| 1:02:58 | Adam Pasion | Big Ugly Robot Publishing | Uzomuzo | Yakuza Moon |
 The Big Ugly Robot/Uzomuzo crew, including Adam Pasion (far left)and Michiru Morikawa (far right) |
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Awesome Tim and Mulele thank you for the interviews, they were inspiring, informational and entertaining!
Glad you enjoyed them! More next week 🙂
Thanks for this, up up!