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    • AX
    • Black Ships
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Breaking the 10
    • Bushido
    • Cold Mountain
    • Christmas Carol
    • Cigarette Girl
    • Cross Cultural Studies
    • Demon's Sermon
    • Faceless Ghost
    • 47 Ronin 忠臣蔵
    • Fight The Power!
    • Gardening Mindfulness
    • Goodbye God
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure
    • Mamiya's Maps
    • Many Not the Few
    • Minamata Story
    • Morningside
    • Musashi
    • Ninja
    • Orwell
    • Parecomic
    • Portraits of Violence
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • Spirit of Japan
    • Story of Lee
    • Sweeney Todd
    • Tale of Genji
    • Tao Te Ching
    • Tokyo + Olympics Guide
    • Wuthering Heights
    • Yakuza Moon
    • Yokai Stories
  • Social Issue Books
  • Books On Japan
  • Original Story Books
  • 日本語 Nihongo
    • 日本語の情報
    • 忠臣蔵
    • 西郷隆盛と西南戦争
    • 東京 +オリンピック
  • Digital/Ebook
    • Comixology, kindle, itunes
    • IZNEO digital website
    • 47 Ronin ebook
    • Bits and Bobs ebook
    • Book of Five Rings
    • Black Ships ebook
    • Breaking the 10 ebook
    • Bushido ebook
    • Cold Mountain ebook
    • Conway Connection
    • Demon's Sermon ebook
    • Faceless Ghost ebook
    • Fight the Power ebook
    • The Garden ebook
    • Goodbye God? ebook
    • GFTU 120th Anniversary
    • Hagakure ebook
    • Japanese Drawing Room
    • Minamata ebook
    • Morningside ebook
    • Musashi ebook
    • Ninja ebook
    • Orwell ebook
    • Parecomic ebook
    • Portraits of Violence ebook
    • Satsuma Rebellion 西郷隆盛 Ebook
    • Story of Lee ebook
    • Tale of Genji ebook
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SEAN MICHAEL WILSON

SkipPing stones award

6/27/2022

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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/ ​
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Interview in Publisher blog

6/18/2022

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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/
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our book in academic journal

5/29/2022

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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
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communist liberators?

3/15/2022

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 A little known bit of history: the murderous Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the 1970s was ended not by the USA or any sanctions from the west…but by the Vietnamese COMMUNISTS.

See more here, free...
https://seanmichaelwilson.substack.com/?utm_source=edit-profile-visibility

(but please consider becoming a paid subscriber, only $5 a month, as I am trying to build up this Substack channel into a source of cash for this poor writer, who needs to put food on the table. It’s comments on almost anything, from economics to the environment, from comic books to communism - always interesting, always worth it.
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Freeman book award for our minamata book

2/25/2022

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Happy to say that our environmental book just got an award.

There is a prize called the FREEMAN BOOK AWARD in the USA, organised by Columbia University and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, which gives awards every year for books about asia. Our Minamata Story book, about the poisoning of a
fishing community in Japan and how they coped with it, got the silver medal 'honourable mention' award in the 'High School Literature (Graphic)' type category.

And well done to my other comic book comrade, Chie Kutsuwada, as her book got gold in another category.

Nice!

https://nctasia.org/minamata-story/
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orwell webinar in India

1/24/2022

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Webinar

On 71st Death Anniversary of George Orwell w
e had a great webinar organised by the School of Education, of Mahatma Gandhi Central University. It is based in Motihari, in North East India, where Orwell was born.  

Myself and D.J, Taylor spoke about various aspects of Orwell there (he knowing considerable more about Orwell than I do!).

​The event was watched by more than 300 people and I enjoyed it. A video of it can be seen (click the link to go to youtube).
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Help us out with a review or two

11/26/2021

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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

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Humble bundle’s Japan collection

11/6/2021

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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
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yokai stories event for halloween

10/26/2021

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Event by Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC)

Author Talk – Manga Yokai Stories with Author Sean Michael Wilson
Saturday, October 30, 2021
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Connect via Zoom, login information provided upon registration
Free Admission; Advance Registration Required
Register online: 
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Author Talk: Manga Yokai Stories with Author Sean Michael Wilson « Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (jcccnc.org)

Discover a retelling of some of Japan’s spookiest stories in manga form!
If you’re a fan of Japanese folktales and mythology, you are likely familiar with yokai, spirits and entities prevalent throughout Japanese folklore whose behavior could range from being friendly and helpful to mischievous or malevolent. Join us for a special author talk in time for Halloween with manga author Sean Michael Wilson for a discussion of his manga adaptation of seven of Lafcadio Hearn’s classic Japanese ghost tales written between 1890 and 1904. Hear from Sean the process of adapting these traditional tales into a manga format, and enjoy a reading of one of the book’s ghost stories! The program will include an audience Q&A for Sean to answer some of your questions too!
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orwell society event

10/23/2021

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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

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