Month: January 2004

I finally got a chance to read VERTIGO POP! TOKYO, which came out 2 years ago from DC Comics’ Vertigo label. Written by Jonathan Vankin and brilliantly illustrated by Seth Fisher (I absolutely need to see some more of this guy’s work), it’s a four issue limited series that takes you on a wild ride…

While at Tower Records in Shibuya yesterday, I picked up this great looking comic called MASHCOMIX. It’s a big volume, printed in three colors on thick brown paper, that features contributions by a whole bunch of Japanese creators I’ve never heard of. The best thing is that the thing is bilingual. This would definitely be…

I was in Shibuya yesterday, and found that the Logos Gallery in the basement level of Parco Part 1 is now having a big sale on their art/design books. I picked up two older issues of the magazine MONITOR UNLIMITED (it’s a great Russian design magazine that doesn’t seem to have a website, I only…

I’m almost died laughing just now. Tonight’s TAMORI CLUB was an all SORA MIMI HOUR show. SORA MIMI is usually just a segment they have every week where people send in suggestions of songs from another language that have bits that sound like something said in Japanese. The producers of the show then take that…

When I was at Junkudo the other day to pick up that issue of KOHKOKU, I also got the latest issue of EAT. You gotta love a magazine that mixes design and food, and I feel bad that I missed picking up the last two issues. It’s the sweets issue, and here’s a blurb fromt…

I was very happy to see one of my images appear at Danwei, since it’s one of my favorite daily reads. Thanks Jeremy!