SubscribeBat-Manga! Hits Comic-Con!
August 19, 2008, at 1:06pm.
We’ve got Chip’s full Bat-Manga! presentation from this year’s San Diego Comic-Con for you. Get an overview of the Batman in Japan phenomenon, along with a generous sneak peak at the Bat-Manga! book itself, in eight short clips, starting with “Jiro Kuwata, an Introduction”:
Jiro Kuwata’s 8-Man:
Batman Takes Japan:
The Chinese Batman Spinoff:
Batman Toys in Japan:
A Batman Adventure, Part 1:
A Batman Adventure, Part 2:
Whew! (Video courtesy Random House/Suvudu.)
4 comments.
Hello!
My name is Lars, I´m a Batman collector from sweden. I meet you in New York in your office for a many years ago. I gave you some rare swedish classic Batman comics (Läderlappen)from the fifties.
I have write about you in my blog. I just want you to know that. Please take a look.
http://batmansamlare.bloggagratis.se/
Lars from Sweden
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Ps: I have to apologize for my bad english.
Japanese Batman is something very amusing. At least I was amused by some of the videos.
Why? Very original. At least I don’t think Japanese laugh at him :)
Chip, I have a question about something you say in the production notes to this book, about the translation. You say that you have tried to strike a balance between what is grammatically correct and what was actually said. But isn’t this book a new English translation of the Japanese? Are you saying that some of it was originally in English, and it wasn’t very good English?