Glad to announce that our book has got another award. This time from international magazine SKIPPING STONES:  
 
“We are pleased to recommend the following outstanding multicultural and nature books and teaching resources as the winners of our 2022 book awards. These picture books, chapter books, novels and nonfiction works promote an understanding of cultures, cultivate cooperation and/or encourage a deeper awareness of nature, ecology, and diversity...” 
 
Our book, The Minamata Story: an ecotragedy, got an award in their ‘Nature and Ecology’ section. Nice! Looks like there are a lot of other interesting books there too. 
 
https://www.skippingstones.org/wp/book-awards/ ​

Interview with my wee self in the publisher's blog, talking about our new book, just out in the world (THIS world, the one we are standing in now ): the Japanese classic, Tale of Genji, sometimes considered the first novel ever - with very lovely art by Inko Ai Takita
I also mention books that ive been reading, including those by Noah Van Sciver Paul Buhle and Luke Healy

https://www.tuttlepublishing.com/blog/classics-comics-and-manga-an-interview-with-sean-michael-wilson/

Our book ‘The Minamata Story: An Eco Tragedy’ is the focus of this piece that has just come out in the ‘Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics’. My first time in that, as far as I know.

From two smart academics in India, Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Revathy Krishnan (2022):

‘On drawing graphic industrial disasters: an interview with Sean Michael Wilson’

ABSTRACT

“Of late there have been a plethora of graphic narratives which deal with industrial disasters—for instance, Adam Stone’s The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010), Nick Hayes’s Rime of the Modern Mariner (2011), Pablo Fajardo and Sophie Tardy Jouber’s Crude: A Memoir (2021), Helen Bate’s The Lost Child of Chernobyl: A Graphic Novel (2021) among others. These graphic narratives while remembering the industrial disasters also invoke issues related to social accountability, stir the erased chapters of ecological violence, and more importantly, tease out the tensions between the State records/archives and the testimonies/ memories of the affected community. In so doing, these graphic narratives, at once function as memorials that document, commemorate and globalize the sufferings of the victims. Published in 2021 and drawn in Manga style, The Minamata Story: An Eco Tragedy is one such graphic narrative that recounts the Minamata industrial disaster in Japan. Minamata industrial disaster (1956) was caused by the continual release of methylmercury to waterbodies from the factories owned by Chisso Corporation. In this context, Sean Michael Wilson, the author of The Minamata Story: An Eco Tragedy, in an email interview shares his views on graphic narratives on industrial disasters, Manga, and implications and social stigma associated with the Minamata disease.”

Can be seen at the journal's page on the Taylor and Francis website or free at Academia:

https://www.academia.edu/80164149/_Graphic_Medicine_On_Drawing_Graphic_Industrial_Disasters_An_Interview_with_Sean_Michael_Wilson?email_work_card=view-paper

If anyone feels like putting a nice little review and high star rating for our George Orwell graphic novel on Amazon.uk (its not available in the USA) or Goodreads that would be appreciated by myself and the artist, Jaime Huxtable.

These kind of indie books need your help with promo, and we need decent sales if the publisher is to agree to doing more in the 'Illustrated Orwell' series that we want to do.

HERE for our Orwell book

And a nice little review for our Minamata book would be lovely too. It is available in the USA, so Amazon USA would be good.

HERE for our Minamata book

 
Several of our graphic novels are included in this very impressive collection of books on Japanese philosophy and samurai. Including books by esteemed scholars like John Stevens, Thomas Cleary and ‘my uncle Bill’, William Scott Wilson.
I see that more than 2,000 of the bundles have been bought already, bringing in more than $4,500 so far for a charity that helps  at-risk women and children in the developing world.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/live-like-samurai-shambhala-books?hmb_source&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_2_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_livelikesamuraishambhala_bookbundle&fbclid=IwAR3DOAzma0KkysOIym2ONINSTr1kM_xEDYbuQYSlHsSM-7dKmMmLd6mCdc0

We will do a talk about our new book at The Orwell Society.
 
"Such, Such Were The Joys" is a new graphic novel adapted from Orwell’s famous essay. The novel will be launched at 6pm UK time on Sunday 7th November in a free online event organised by The Orwell Society which is expected to last one hour.
 
We will be joined by adapter Sean Michael Wilson and illustrator Jaime Huxtable to discuss their novel. Orwell's son Richard Blair will introduce the event and Les Hurst will discuss the importance of the essay.
A Zoom link will be sent 2 days before the event.
 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/184649239847