02354cam a2200301 i 4500 on1226073496 OCoLC ta 210507s2021 ncua b 001 0deng 2020054954 9781476679969 (pbk.) 1476679967 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1226073496 (OCoLC)1148891033 PN6790.J33 L45 2021 Leiji Matsumoto : essays on the manga and anime legend / edited by Helen McCarthy and Darren-Jon Ashmore ; foreword by Gilles Poitras. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2021. viii, 238 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. "Leiji Matsumoto is one of Japan's most influential myth creators. Yet the huge scope of his work, spanning past, present and future in a constantly connecting multiverse, is largely unknown outside Japan. Matsumoto was the major creative force on Star Blazers, America's gateway drug for TV anime, and created Captain Harlock, a TV phenomenon in Europe. As well as space operas, he made manga on musicians from Bowie to Tchaikovsky, wrote the manga version of American cowboy show Laramie, and created dozens of girls' comics. He is a respected manga scholar, an expert on Japanese swords, a frustrated engineer and pilot who still wants to be a spaceman in his eighties. This collection of new essays-the first book on Matsumoto in English-covers his seven decades of comic creation, drawing on contemporary scholarship, artistic practice and fan studies to map Matsumoto's vast universe. The contributors-artists, creators, translators and scholars-mirror the range of his work and experience. From the bildungsroman to the importance of textual analysis for costume and performance, from early days in poverty to honors around the world, this volume offers previously unexplored biographical and bibliographic detail from a life story as thrilling as anything he created."-- Matsumoto, Reiji, 1938- Criticism and interpretation. Comic books, strips, etc. Japan History and criticism. Cartoonists Japan Biography. Animated films Japan Biography. McCarthy, Helen, 1951- Ashmore, Darren-Jon, 1968- Poitras, Gilles. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 PN6790.J33 L45 2021 PNLIB21061852 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2039 2039