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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #First Uttered in 1600's: "Modern Golems..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “The Automaton Awards! Recognizing the best from the field of robotics!”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #48.6 Thoughts Per Minute: "Cogitabund..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Even MORE Random Thoughts or ‘Arbitrary musings that continuously flit through my cranium!’”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Between 3/22 and 4/25: "Happy Easter!..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Overlooked Rabbits AKA ‘Other bunnies to celebrate during Easter...’”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Anything After 50 Years: "Ka-Boom!..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Forecasting the End of the World”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Released in '71: "Can't You Read the Sign?"

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Sign, Sign — Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind...”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #First CT Scan, 10/1971: "Cogito, Ergo Sum..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Brain Scans — How we perceive each other...”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Lesson 1,537: "There is no Wrong Answer..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, Again: Complete the Cartoon”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Coined in '83: "They're All Around Us..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Urban Cryptids in Daily Life”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #50 Grams is Dangerous: "Are You Sure?..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Stuff that Sounds like B.S. (but apparently ain’t!)”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #2024 Gossip: "Heard it on the Grapevine..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Rumors I Wish People Would Spread About Me...”

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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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