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[have-you-read-this-comic]

[lesparaversdemillina]

Isabella Bird poursuit son périple et découvre les Aïnous, peuple discriminé mais fascinant. Sa curiosité et sa bienveillance enrichissent son voyage. Le dessin est sublime, et l’auteur s’investit pleinement. Un tome instructif, engagé et toujours aussi immersif.

[nekolah]

Fushigi no Kuni no Bird (ふしぎの国のバード) by Taiga Sassa

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"Something completely different" continues, as I was about to throw away a comic reading challenge sheet that I snatched from Keski-Suomen Sarjakuvaseura, but decided to think through the prompts before doing so. So under -read more- you'll find some musings of mine about comics I ended up reading this year. There's some pics too!

I'll start with some comics that were the topic for book talk meetups arranged by the aforementioned comic group. I've never attended such meetups before, and these turned out really interesting! Even I babbled away my thoughts despite usually being on the silent and shy side. Way to go me!

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck - Don Rosa Prompt: The protagonist gets older during the events of the comic. Donald Duck comics were a part of my childhood, and I especially loved the works of Don Rosa. It's been ages since I read any though, so it was neat to jump back to this big chronicle and read it properly in its entirety. This time I read it in English, which was something with the different accents.

Valotusaika - Avi Heikkinen Prompt: Features a pet/other house or farm animal. I had read this before but had another go for the session. Interesting comic that uses edited photos, yet not in any stiff way I think - the posing and expressions are great! It tells a story about a man who's been kicked to the head by life a lot, who finds a camera that can show the past. The first part of the comic has quite heart-wrenching climax ;u;

Anne Frank's Diary - Ari Folman, David Polonsky Prompts: People oppose the leading powers & the comic tells of loneliness. This was my first touch on Anne Frank's Diary, and I think the comic form works well here and helps to visualize things such as how cramped the attic space really was. The art is really pretty too, and many panels look like frames straight out of an animated movie (which there later was).

Now onto comics I read outside of the book talk sessions.

This shelf used to contain art supplies...

4. Bird in Wonderland - Taiga Sassa Prompts: Comic is a travel story, comic is relaxing, comic where people are nude, comic where sweets are eaten, comic where something embarrassing happens, comic where a celebration is held. Many prompts... They started releasing this in Finnish this year, and I thought to give it a go! This year in general has felt like I wanted to try out more comics, and find new ones to follow to fill slowed down schedules of some. I hadn't heard of this series beforehand, but it's been a nice travel story to read, based on real journey by Isabella Bird. So far emphasis is definitely on comic is relaxing, as it really is joy to read.

5. Emma - Kaoru Mori Prompts: Includes a speech or public performance, comic that's been on your reading list for long, comic includes cleaning or laundry (definitely!), visit in a park or garden, includes hugs or kisses, includes travel by train. Many prompts again! This got a new release this year in Finnish, and I wanted to catch that because I was too much a teenager in its first run. I actually just today read the last two books :D This was another comfy read. Emma as a protagonist is fairly odd and distant as we hardly get to see her thoughts, her antics are rather followed from the view of the myriad of other characters. Yet I was still as invested how her love story develops as her maid colleagues and others :'D I was suprised to find out the later volumes were mostly side stories, some quite whatever but couple more interesting.

6. Night of the Living Cat - Hawkman, Mecha-Roots Prompts: Released 2023 (started 2022 but on-going... :D), series has an interesting name. A comic that I ran into here on tumblr, just from seeing one page with cat paws, that intrigued me enough to seek where this art was from. Amazing zombie parody, where people turn into cats upon contact. I love this, probably my THE COMIC of 2023. Apparently someone who's worked on the English publication is here on tumblr too *waves*

7. Hevosjumala - Sami Makkonen Prompts: The events aren't told in chronological order, interesting name. The name means 'horse god'. This randomly caught my eye in a book store, and on first glance I was little sceptic about the art style if it looked little too messy to comprehend, but took it with me anyway. Aside couple character mess-ups, the art didn't prove a problem after all, fits the feeling and themes definitely! And by that I mean it's a paranormal horror story with some nice folktale twists.

8. Candy & Cigarettes - Tomonori Inoue Prompts: Protagonist is a child/youngster, includes a crime. This was actually a recommendation at a panel in Tampere Kuplii. I'm not normally one for crime genre, but the art style spoke to me in this. Some of the goons remind me of early Toriyama's work :D Protagonist duo is made of a child assassin and an elderly ex-cop who has to join forces with the former to earn money for his grandson's treatment. Graphic violence and heavy themes, but also a lovable protagonist duo trying to help each other out.

9. Ilmarin Koijaiset - Jenni Välikangas Prompts: Features rainbow family or couple (is that term commonly used in English?), less than 100 pages, features pet. I got interested in this comic after seeing the original pages up on an exhibition - the paintwork is GORGEOUS. Tells a story of a guy who moves onto her aunt's island to take care of it and the dog while aunt is away. Turns out the island isn't quite what it seems!

10. Delicious in Dungeon - Ryoko Kui Prompts: Includes hunting/fishing/foraging, something surprising happens in the comic. Yep, been reading this too, and the volumes 11 and 12 are ordered. Idk what to say here, great and interesting story and worldbuilding, lovely and distinctive characters and great art! Even with the rather "monster of the week" style the chapters often have going on, the in-depth approach makes it interesting.

11. Fullmetal Alchemist - Hiromu Arakawa Prompts: Comic features a border, travel via train, features a pet. A classic that I re-read again this year after scavenging all the books from my folks' attic :D But I.. sure don't like... how the title is upsidedown when stacked like that... and it doesn't make sense to me to have the back up.. augh.

I read other titles too as well, but these listed here were the ones that came to mind for the prompts. Annnyway, congrats I guess if you read all that? Feel free to comment and babble your opinions if you will~

[littleeyesofpallas]

Fushigi no Kuni no BIRD[ふしぎの国のバード]: BIRD of the Mysterious Country

aka Isabella Bird in Wonderland

aka UNBEATEN TRACKS in JAPAN

An Account of travels in The Interior Including Visit to the Aborigines of YEZU and The Shrines of NIKKO and ISE

[litterature-en-interieur]

Coup de coeur Manga

Je vous partage aujourd’hui deux mangas que j’aime énormément.

Si jamais vous aimez l’Histoire et que vous voulez changer des romans ou bd, je vous conseille ces deux mangas:

Isabella Bird, femme exploratrice. de Taiga Sassa.

Résumé:

Ce manga raconte l’histoire de l’exploratrice anglaise Isabella Bird qui est l’une des premières personnes à avoir explorer le Japon à la fin du XIXème siècle. On suit donc ses aventures à travers le Japon qui s’ouvre tout juste à l’Occident. C’est fascinant. On y apprend pleins de choses et c’est évidemment tiré d’une histoire vraie!

Le 2ème manga est un manga que j’ai lu il y a un moment et qui n’est toujours pas fini, c’est Bride Stories de Kaoru Mori.

Résumé:

Ici, nous sommes plongés une fois encore à la fin du XIXème siècle mais non pas au Japon mais en Asie Centrale. On suit plusieurs histoires de femmes vivant dans différent peuple (nomades ou non) à travers les yeux d’un anthropologue anglais. 

Pareil, on apprend beaucoup de choses, notamment sur les us et coutumes des peuples d’Asie Centrale.

Gros plus de ces deux mangas: Les dessins qui sont juste magnifiques

Isabella Bird, femme exploratrice

Bride Stories

[univers-paralleles-de-millina]

Isabella Bird, femme exploratrice T7 de Taïga SASSA

Bonjour, Ce tome est toujours aussi fascinant. La(e) lectrice (eur) a des nouvelles des habitants croisés lors de leur périple. J’ai apprécié ce détail. Isabella Bird fut influencée par ses rencontres. Néanmoins, est-ce réciproque ?   #isabellabird

Extrait en image : Mon avis : Ce tome est toujours aussi fascinant. La(e) lectrice (eur) a des nouvelles des habitants croisés lors de leur périple. J’ai apprécié ce détail. Isabella Bird fut influencée par ses rencontres. Néanmoins, est-ce réciproque ?   À part cela, le voyage d’Isabella Bird passe au second plan. Ito est toujours indécis à rejoindre Monsieur Mariés ou à rester avec Miss…

[isobelharrop]

Since leaving uni (and during uni, tbh) I’ve found reading for fun incredibly difficult. My attention span is terrible and I fall asleep after a couple of pages. However, I have recently found a solution and that is in the form of graphic novels and manga. So I thought I would write up a list of a few of my favourites; I would love recommendations too (tweet me @isobeljournal)

1. Azumanga Diaoh and Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma

It was getting the Azumanga omnibus last Christmas that really got me started down this road. I had never really read a manga before (except the first Yotsuba book which I will come back to) and I guess I had always dismissed them as I’m not really interested in magical stuff or anything like that, which I had imagined all manga was full of. However, Azumanga is the total opposite of anything like that. It’s a “slice of life” manga that follows a group of high school girls, and apart from a few surreal (and funny) dream sequences, there is none of the “weird manga stuff” I had imagined. Just a group of characters who you just learn to love and lugh at a lot, and in the end when the girls graduate from high school, it brought a tear to my eye because I had grown so fond of them, I felt like I was there.

Kiyohiko Azuma is the king of slice of life, not just for creating Azumanga, but because he also created the wonderfully sweet and hilarious Yotsuba&!. Whilst this series has a younger lead character and a younger target audience, it honestly warms the cockles of my heart so much, and each panel is so full of expression (he’s brilliant at showing emotion on Yotsuba’s little face) that even the simplest thing can make me laugh out loud reading it. Yotsuba is a little girl who seems to know nothing about the world, and through these comics we watch her experiencing the world through fresh eyes, led by her dad and neighbours.

2. Isabella Bird in Wonderland (Fushigi no Kuni no Bird) by Taiga Sassa

I found out about this manga just the other week after a holiday to Scotland and in particular, a visit to Tobermory (Balamory) on the Isle of Mull. At a museum there I learned a bit about Isabella Bird, an explorer who had lived there and traveled the world in the 19th century.  When I went on Wikipedia to find out more about her, I discovered that her journey to Japan had been translated into a manga, and I was even more excited when I found an English version available to read online.

I didn’t think that a historical manga would appeal to me this much but I devoured the whole thing in a couple of afternoons. Much like the first two, this book is very grounded in reality with none of the outlandish  “manga” conventions those unfamiliar with the genre imagine it would contain. It is also really lovingly done with real attention to detail (especially in the translation notes) and even tackles the issues of Westerners travelling and colonising the East, whilst still being funny and warm and enjoyable to read. 

Here is a link to the online version, as it isn’t available to buy in English unfortunately.

3. Fluffy by Simone Lia

I was given this graphic novel by a literary agent a few years ago and I really really enjoyed it and it’s one of those books I’ve even lent out to friends because it’s such a short, sweet, funny, and sad book. It looks at first glance like a children’s book but it’s actually an adult graphic novel with quite a lot of substance about anxiety and family and just life, really. Yet it is still light hearted; Fluffy is a bunny (who believes he is a child) with a Yotsuba-like outlook on the world. His exhausted dad/owner Michael tries to balance his bunny looking after responsibilities with an unsuccessful love life and family that is falling apart. A lot of unconventional narrative techniques such as looking into the inside of Michael’s brain or the narration being conducted by a dust particle make it stand out from other similar books (if similar books exist!)

4. Never Goodnight by Coco Moodysson

If you have seen the movie We Are The Best you will know this story anyway, as this graphic novel is written by Lukas Moodysson’s (the film’s director) wife, Coco, and it was the inspiration for the story. I recommend both the film and the book - I like her unique drawing style and the sweet and the funny tale of growing up punk in 1982 Sweden is brilliant on page and screen.

5. Ripples by Wai Wai Pang

I’ve followed Wai Wai Pang on the internet for years and always loved her work, and when this comic came out I was so eager that I ended up being the first person to order it from her shop. The artwork in this Milton Keynes-set detective story is really ingenious and uses techniques taken from detective stories such as maps, collections of evidence, and character info cards to tell the story in a really interesting and visually beautiful way. I also like how the characters are a mix of a humans and animals.

6. Solanin and Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano

These two critically acclaimed manga’s are a bit darker and weirder than my other choices, and most suitable for adult audiences, however they’re both well worth a read, Solanin in particular if you are in a similar life situation to myself and want to read a depressing story about post-uni life. The art work is beautiful in both, particularly in the backgrounds, which are contrasted in Goodnight Pun Pun in his simply designed main character, who is a bird I think? Or maybe a ghost under a sheet. Either way, it looks great. 

Solanin is a stand alone book, whcih makes it a good place to start and see how you feel about Asano’s work, whereas Pun Pun has more installments which I am yet to read, but I am looking forward to finding out what happens next in Pun Pun’s dysfunctional world.

(7. I guess I should be Annoying and remind y’all that I wrote a sort of graphic novel called The Isobel Journal which you can still buy!! Ok thanks bye!!)

[lesparaversdemillina]

Isabella Bird, femme exploratrice T9 de Taïga SASSA

Je ne vous présente plus cette saga. Je continue ma découverte du Japon auprès de l’exploratrice anglaise Isabella Bird et Ito. J’adore. Ce tome est rythmé et mouvementé. Il est riche en événements.

Mon avis : Je ne vous présente plus cette saga. Je continue ma découverte du Japon auprès de l’exploratrice anglaise Isabella Bird et Ito. J’adore. Ce tome est rythmé et mouvementé. Il est riche en événements. Les dessins de Taïga Sassa sont tout simplement splendides. Il arrive à transmettre des émotions importantes à travers les expressions faciales. J’ai ressenti l’investissement d’Isabella…

[setzeri]

The Englishwoman in Unbeaten Tracks of Japan.

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⋆「SIERRA PANTHERA ☾ 8SEN」⋆ 

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Unshia’s Taiga lovemail is intense

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Isabella Bird Tome 1 de Taiga Sassa

(Chronique de Manga - Nath) Mon avis sur Isabella Bird Tome 1 de Taiga Sassa publié chez Ki-oon. Un premier tome prometteur !

Isabella Bird Tome 1 de Taiga Sassa Nombre de pages : 224 Editeur : Ki-oon Date de sortie : 12 octobre 2017 Collection : KIZUNA ISA BIRD Langue : Français ISBN-13 : 979-1032701669 Prix Éditeur : 7,90€ Disponible sur liseuse : NONDe quoi ça parle ? Le Japon du XIXe siècle hors des sentiers battus ! À la fin du xixe siècle, le Japon s’ouvre au monde et s’occidentalise à marche forcée. Mais le pays…

[miriapendragon]

Isabella Bird de Taiga Sassa est un manga fascinant et riche. Il est tellement inspiré de fait réel d'après le journal personnel d'Isabella Bird. Les dessins sont magnifiques. Chronique ▶️https://universparallelesdemillina1.blog/2019/09/25/isabella-bird-la-femme-exploratrice-tome-4-de-taiga-sassa/ #kiooneditions #isabellabird #taigasassa #manga #mangastagram (à Rue Tiquetonne) https://www.instagram.com/p/B21WhQHIhyB/?igshid=p7iksqobzkil

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Top Ten Tuesday : Les 10 meilleures BDs / Mangas que vous avez lues

Top Ten Tuesday : Les 10 meilleures BDs / Mangas que vous avez lues Bonjour, Je vous présente mon top 10 des BD et Manga, avons-nous quelques saga en commun ou pas ? Quel est votre top ten ?

Cher.e.s voyageur.e.s, Je ne suis pas une inconditionnelle du Top Ten Tuesday, mais, une fois, de temps en temps, j’aime bien me prêter au jeu surtout quand le thème m’intéresse. Le rendez-vous a été repris par Frogzine. Elle propose des Top Ten avec des thèmes différents tous les mardis. Le thème de cette semaine sera pour moi “Les 10 meilleures BDs / Mangas que vous avez lues“. C’est un…