Translating a symposium piece for a future issue of Transformative Works and Cultures from Japanese to English: four hours of smooth, enjoyable working with occasional snags but overall good progress.

Translating and transcribing the bibliography to said piece and putting all the points and commas in the right places: a full extra fours hours of ( Read more... )

For the Dutch-speaking among us: my two latest manga translations just got published, the second part of Das Kapital and Les Misérables. Previous issues in this series were the first part of Das Kapital and War and Peace.

I'm having huge fun working on this literary manga series, and nearly as much fun rolling my eyes at all those who lament that ( Read more... )

For those of us who read Dutch, a new report on the state of the comics industry in Belgium includes an article by Haruyuki Nakano (author of Manga Sangyoron) on the spectacular rise and quite exciting possibilities of manga on cellphones in Japan and Asia. The article starts from page 49 of this rather large pdf version of the report. Published by ( Read more... )