http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/1977 Comments for "Nisei cartoonist Jack Matsuoka" en http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/1977 <p><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/sites/www.discovernikkei.org.forum/files/Manga cover 2_sm.jpg" title="View: Manga cover 2_sm.jpg"><img style="width: px; height:px;" src="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/sites/www.discovernikkei.org.forum/files/Manga cover 2_sm.jpg" class="inline" alt="Manga cover 2_sm.jpg" title="Manga cover 2_sm.jpg" /></a></p> <h2>Nisei cartoonist Jack Matsuoka</h2> <p>By Ken Kaji<br /> <br></p> <p>Most Nisei will remember Jack Matsuoka’s drawings from the seventies published in <em>Hokubei Mainichi</em>, along with his series, Sensei, and his book about relocation camp life entitled <em>Camp II, Block 211</em> (Japan Publications, Inc., 1974). Matsuoka was born in Watsonville in 1925 and later attended a single semester at Cleveland School of Fine Arts in Ohio before being drafted into the army. He was just a teen when he drew the cartoons of <em>Camp II, Block 211</em>, a humorous and poignant depiction of life in Poston relocation camp. Ken Kaji visited Mr. Matsuoka, now retired, at his home in Fuji Towers in San Jose, California. </p> <p><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/1977">read more</a></p> http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/1977#comment Arts &amp; Design Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:20:27 -0800 editor 1977 at http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum