Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Big in Japan





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Here's a photo of me from the home page of Masashi Watanabe, taken on the first day of Worldcon last month. Mr. Watanabe sat next to us at the Young King Manga Artists' Panel. He was a big help, because the panel was conducted in Japanese, without a translator, and Mr. Watanabe speaks excellent English. I won the sketch (by Monma-sensei -- I'm afraid I don't know his given name) by prevailing in multiple rock-paper-scissors matches, includinga one-on-one with a Japanese fan.
The katakana above the cat-Enterprise says, "Nyaaa," which is the Japanese equivalent of "meowww."
Mr. Watanabe sells figures, scale models and toys on his Website at http://arakoma.cool.ne.jp. Click on the "Topics Board" link for tons of beautiful photos he took at Worldcon, many with captions in English.
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