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The Rumpus Interview With Yumi Sakugawa - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> Rumpus: Besides the monsters, it seems like a lot of people in your comics are Asian American or Japanese American based on ...

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The Rumpus Interview With Yumi Sakugawa - Part 1

In Yumi Sakugawa’s breakout comic, I Think I Am in Friend-Love with You, a one-eyed monster pines for a faceless creature. The pair look ...

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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #3000 Yen for Membership: "Cuddle Costs..."

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Not Only in Japan”… Check back every weekend for ...

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Noodles: Obon Time

Gwen Muranaka’s weekly cartoon “Noodles” appears in The Japan Times, and occasionally in The Rafu Shimpo. The cartoons feature a Japanese American woman and ...

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The Real Lives of Origami Figures

It’s All How You Look at It

I recently got an iPad for traveling abroad. I wanted to be able to write and draw without lugging my trusty (but heavy) laptop around ...

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Not Made In Japan

Breaking Fast

BreakfastsWere processed, Warm and white. Soup, often corn, Always a powder, Poured into a plastic bowlThat looked lacquered. Added water,  Boiled in an aluminum kettle ...

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Adventures of a Nikkei Fan Boy

Thomas Shoyama — A Great Canadian

Tom Shoyama (1915-2006), a great Canadian who happened to be of Japanese descent. * This comic was originally published in the Nikkei Voice in November 2013.

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Not Made In Japan

The New Digs

Before me, a foreign couple with a young son lived in the house. Evidently, they let the boy trash the place. The marine station replaced ...

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Not Made In Japan

Not Made in Japan

Traveling experiences in Japan from a Canadian Nikkei...

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Of Rabbits and Ronin: The Charismatic Characters of Stan Sakai's Comic Books

Ears drooping in the heavy rain, Usagi Yojimbo glances around menacingly and draws his sword to defend against attackers. Always ready to defend his honor ...