I made a 39-minute video essay exploring the history of a strange character design that mysteriously pops up in the most unexpected places.

15 years of research and a dozen different series went into this video for your viewing pleasure.

My favorite piece of feedback is the English translator for Gaogaigar calling it credible.

lol *creates a shrine to something obscure and unimportant

Cyborg 009 Graphics (Art Book)!

Finally made its way to my doorstep! So, this is a book that claims to compile all of Ishinomori’s Cyborg 009-related illustrations. Published in 2020 and as far as I know is still in print; I bought my copy from CDJapan. There are a LOT of illustrations and a lot of them are Joe, so I’m not going to get too far into it; print quality is pretty good, colors are vibrant, but not all the illustrations are presented as full pages or spreads which did disappoint me a little, especially with the ones that were obviously a larger size originally.

Here’s some favorites I picked out! In no particular order.

Rainbow Joes!

Cute illustrations with Jet:

(Really like the ocean on that last one! Also brown eyed Jet spotted in the moon one, wow)

this cool brush painting on stained wood from towards the end of Ishinomori’s life:

This???? What is Jet holding??:

Please don’t tell me it’s supposed to be a football 💀💀💀

and cute sketch! Look at Jet and Joe smiling at each other >w<

Seeing the old Pyunma designs do hurt a bit to look at, but… I guess I’ll live.

You know what WAS missing though? Despite the other Jun-related Cyborg 009 illustrations making it in here??

This one??? Wonder why… okay it was probably an accidental omission, but that makes me wonder what else they may have missed in this book. (This picture was taken from the Jun’s Fantasy World art book btw, published in the 2000s)

alright that’s all I’ve got! I also got the physical copy of the Ghosts of the Pacific manga, which was fun. My favorite detail on it was the printing of a color illustration onto the page edges!

SUPERPOSE

forgot to post here for webcomic day... well. anyway. you should read this.

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Chang!

Im really not feeling the crossover but have this instead.

I love the way Ishinomori draws characters jumping in place it's incredibly charming

sorry about this

no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder

Steve From “Blue’s Clues” Just Checked In On “The Kids He Raised” And Gave Them A Safe Space To Offload After Donald Trump’s Election Victory.

Interestingly, Steve doesn’t even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and “offers them” a hot drink.

And many of the comments thanked Steve for offering them this safe space, with one person writing: “As a trans man, I felt this to my core. I took the breath with you then started bawling. Thank you.”

“The man who is a staple of my childhood didn’t say a single word and it brought me to tears. Steve, thank you. I don’t know where we go from here,” somebody else wrote.

Another popular comment reads: “He didn’t say A WORD and said everything at the same time. This man should be guarded at all costs.”

“Neither of my dads checked in on me today. But you did Steve. Thank you,” one more acknowledged.

“So much responsibility on Steve’s hands to make sure we are okay. We need to make sure he’s doing okay too. I mean I’m not doing great, but he’s still looking after the kids he raised,” somebody else added.

While another concluded: “I bet you didn’t think you’d still be raising us all these years later, Steve, but thank you for still being here.”

I met Steve at Comic Con a couple years ago. I told him, “thank you for being there for me as a kid when it felt like no one else was. He responded “no, thank you for all your help; without you, I’d still be trying to figure out what Blue wanted for her snack!” and I had to try very hard not to cry, he was so nice.

Ponyo 崖の上のポニョ(2008)

dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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