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My WonderCon Events
If you're going to be at WonderCon in San Francisco this coming weekend, I'm doing two panels.

Friday, 2:30-3:30: The Secret History of Manga in the U.S. -- It's been thirty years since the first manga was translated into English! From MixxZine to Raijin, from Astro Boy to Tenjho Tenge, discover the bizarre secrets of translated manga in this visual time machine full of dreamers, censors, antiwar activists, and ninja. Lots of ninja. Room 236/238.

Sunday, 2:30-3:30: 100 Manga Magazines in 50 Minutes -- In Japan, manga is published in massive weekly, biweekly, and monthly manga magazines that fit every imaginable category: shojo to shonen, science fiction to horror, moe to yaoi, children's to adult. It's a visual journey through the manga world from 1945 to 2008. Room 220.

Yep, these are both panels I've given before. However, the "Manga Magazines" panel has been updated slightly, and the "Secret History of Manga" panel, which was only previously seen by a handful of brave, hapless souls at the Cartoon Art Museum, has been heavily changed and generally made better. So please come by if you want to hear me ramble about manga while pretty pictures flash in the background.