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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #44¢ Postage to Santa: "Wish List Worries..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, letters to Santa...

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #100% Fashionable: "Elusive Ethnicities, PT. 2..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, Neal asks "Are you a fashion trend-setter?? Or are you simply disguising your ethnicity??"

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #"Flesh" to "Peach" in 62: Elusive Ethnicity, PT. 1

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, Neal asks "So where does "Fashion-forward" end and altering one's ethnicity begin?"

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #4th Thursday of the 11th Month: "Feast Time!"

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "Why J-A Thanksgivings (Especially in Los Angeles) Are the BEST!..."

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #1969: "Kubler-Ross Revisited..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "The 5 Stages of Grief (Over Dieting During the Holidays!)"

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #1873 A.D.: "The Denim Dance..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Fashion Economics 101”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #308+ Million: "About 75% or So..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "The Difference Between Opinion and Fact..."

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #90 Calories Per 8 Grams: "Edible Enigmas..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "4 Foods That Mystify My Non-Asian Friends!!"

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #About 3 Pounds (On Average): "Pinky And -- "

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, The Brain!

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #666 Revisited: "In Yo' Face, Doom Sayers!"

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "In Yo' Face, Doom Sayers!"

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About

As a Freelance (i.e., unemployed) Artist, Neal Yamamoto has spewed forth a wide variety of scribblin's and scrivenin's, including humorous illustrations, gag cartoons and comic/sequential art for over a hundred books, comics, magazines and educational publications nationwide. Mr. Yamamoto has also been caught conducting cartooning and comic book illustration workshops at unsuspecting institutions like CSULA, Pasadena City College, Glendale Adult Education and Santa Monica City College. His fevered meanderings can also be seen in a weekly cartoon called "My Name is Neal, which he has been illegally posting on the Discover Nikkei website for the past couple of years.

As yet, he has not been successfully prosecuted.

Nikkei interests

  • community history
  • family stories
  • festival/matsuri
  • Japanese/Nikkei food
  • Japantowns
  • taiko

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