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Doraemon The Movie: Paper Cup Edition

I’ve tweeted this and FBd it and just have to blog it: a fantastic piece of animation made with three paper cups and a ton of love for…

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Super Information Hijinks: Reality Check!

“absurdist speculative fiction revolving around the advent of a single appliance, the True Virtual Reality Helmet — oh, and a boy and his cat” – get your Reality…

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Shigeru Mizuki: War Haiku

I think of Mizuki and the ghosts who walked with him to the end of his days, and I can’t shake the feeling that somewhere along our path…

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Puppet-Making at Anime Attacks 5, Gateshead

More puppets from the workshop I did in Gateshead. I was amazed at the diversity and energy of the puppets created from basic stationery supplies and waste. Plastic…

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Shigeru Mizuki 1922-2015

Shigeru Mizuki has died aged 93 after seven decades of work as an artist and advocate for peace.

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Anime Encyclopedia 3rd edn: Signed, Sealed, Delivered and Yours

Just in time for the holidays, the epic hardback 3rd edition of The Anime Encyclopedia is available with a bookplate signed by both authors! That’s right, both Jonathan…

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Puppet-Making at Anime Attacks 5, Gateshead

After puppet yonkoma, here are some more of the the puppets we made at Gateshead Central Library during Anime Attacks 5.

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Social change in fandom: Armadacon 07, 1995

From the historical point of view this is interesting for the very limited view we had of nascent anime world fandom, and the social change it documents.

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Puppet Yonkoma – a manga first from Anime Attacks Gateshead

Five plastic straws, one piece of paper and a black felt tip pen, plus a devotion to the word balloon and a truly twisted imagination, created a new…

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