Japanese Animation: Time Out of Mind
Due out late summer/fall 2010
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While visiting Japan, animation writer Chris Robinson gets lost. As he drifts through Tokyo, Hiroshima and Kyoto he happens upon a number of mysterious figures including Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, Sumo wrestlers, Big Bird and, by good chance, many famous Japanese animators - living and dead. Each of these characters takes Robinson into a deep, dark, mysterious world of Japanese animation that doesn’t include Godzilla, Akira, Anime, Manga or Hasao Miyazaki.
cover illustration from Koji Yamamura’s Kafka’s A Country Doctor.
cover design by Theodore Ushev