Art Talk - Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Adrian Tomine, July 19
Topic: Manga

UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Westwood, CA 90095

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM,   Cost: Free

Tel: 310-443-7000  www.hammer.ucla.edu

 

The legendary Japanese comic artist and manga-ka discusses the art form with Tomine, a comic artist and graphic novelist.

 

Manga Symposium at Pomona College, Feb. 17
Topic: Manga
Marauding Rabbits, Starry-Eyed Girls, Battling Boys, 'Ordinary Ladies':Japanese (American) Manga in Review

Friday, February 17, 2006

Pomona College
Pacific Basin Institute, Hahn 101

420 N Harvard Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
Cost: Free, Time: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Lynne Miyake Tel: (909) 621-8931

www.pomona.edu/pbi

Providing the plenary address will be Frederik L. Schodt, the premier scholar on manga in English and author of the seminal, Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics and Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Also featured will be Stanley Sakai, the creator of the long running and highly successful samurai rabbit Usagi Yojimbo series, providing a step-by-step demonstration of how a manga story is written and drawn. Kinko Ito, professor of sociology at the University of Arkansas, will speak to the genre of ladies comics, its emergence in the 1980s to its newest trends in the 21st century. Matthew A. Thorn, associate professor at Japan?s only Department of Comic Art in the School of Cartoon and Comic Art at Kyoto Seika University and an expert on girls sh?jo manga, will round out the program.

1:30PM
Introductory Remarks: Lynne K. Miyake (Department of Asian Languages & Literatures, Pomona College)

1:40PM
Introduction: Mage Macchione (Classics Major, Pomona College)

1:45-2:30PM
Frederik L. Schodt (Conference Interpreter, Translator, and Free Lance Writer)
“The Manga Way”

2:30PM
Introduction: Tom Bayles (Japanese Major, Pomona College)

2:35-3:10PM
Stan Sakai (Comics Artist and National Cartoonists Society Award Winner)
“Creating Comics, Making Manga”

3:10PM
Introduction: Chen Jiang (International Relations Major, Pomona College)

3:15-3:50PM
Kinko Ito (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Gerontology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
“Japanese Ladies' Comics: Now and Then”

3:50PM
Introduction: Julia Fields (Asian Studies Major, Pomona College)

3:55-4:30PM
Matthew A. Thorn (School of Cartoon & Comic Art, Kyoto Seika University)

4:30-5:30PM
Open Discussion

5:30PM
Buffet Dinner (hall outside room 101)