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HERE IS A WILD FANTASY 

I strive to use the internet in the opposite way web 2.0 encourages people to, I hate the dang endless scrolls, I miss seeing real dates on posts, I need PAGE NAVIGATION. So i often look through blogs’ archives (put /archive after your favorite tumblrs, it’s great!) I love wikipedia hoping and deep dives into tags. Web 2.0 eats new content, all the time, constantly. 

I mentioned @samehat in an earlier post, the tumblr has tons of incredible artists in its archive. Samehat was originally a blogspot that would post translations of old and weird manga, but also their current zine-making friends like Hellen Jo and Michael Deforge. Because of them I went to my first non-anime comics fest, MoCCA in NYC. Changed my life forever.

Also go through the amazing stuff on @de-maupin & @fehyesvintagemanga!!

ANYWAY BACK TO MY WILD FANTASY:

WHAT IF THERE WAS A YEAR 24 GROUP IMPRINT?

(read this great posts about this group of artists here)

What if Viz, and Vertical, and Fantagraphics, and everyone publishing old manga came together for whimsical new imprint?!!

Anyway, the stuff posted above includes some year 24 group stuff that got published in english, but maybe weren’t given a proper shot. I would love to see everything in as great an edition as the Moto Hagio Fantagraphics runs, that’s my dream. Keiko Takemiya, Riyoko Ikeda, and Yasuko Aoike all deserve big nice books too! I would also love to see stories from all the lesser known year 24 group folks as well. I’m including Shotaro Ishinomori in this group because I think there’s a lack of his titles in English as well (I used to feel similar about Leiji Matsumoto, but Kodansha America just did a great Queen Emeraldas run). 

IT IS CRIMINAL THAT THERE HASN’T BEEN A PROPER ENGLISH RELEASE OF THE FOLLOWING TITLES:

-Oniisama E

-The Rose of Versailles

-Kaze to Ki no Uta 

-Fantasy World Jun (seen below paired with Tezuka’s magnum opus, Phoenix) 

-PROBS LOTS MORE I HAVEN’T GOTTEN TO RESEARCH YET

(and the special horror manga, outta-place-in-this-post, final thought, My Name is Shingo by Kazuo Umezu please please someone publish that too)

PLEASE PUBLISH THESE!

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