drupagliassotti @ July 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I’ll be going to Anime Expo tomorrow (Friday) to participate in the Anime and Manga Research Circle panel at noon. I’d love to talk to other BL or m/m romance researchers, writers, and/or fans! Or, heck, we can talk steampunk or horror, too … don’t hesitate to drop by and say hello!
drupagliassotti @ May 21, 2010 # 2 Comments
Day 3 (Friday): (New photos added here.) On the way out of the train station to the Edo-Tokyo Museum we spotted several sumo wrestlers in their topknots and bright yukata heading off to a sumo championship; they were the beginning-level wrestlers, as the higher-ranking wrestlers compete later in the day. I love the fact that [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 17, 2010 # No Comment Yet
My co-editor Mark pointed out that in yesterday’s New York Times article “At Queens Libraries, a Passion for Japanese Comics Endures,” the book shown front and center is How to Draw Manga: Drawing Yaoi. Nice catch, Mark! The article is about how library cuts may adversely affect the library’s manga collection. Too bad. I know [...]
drupagliassotti @ May 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Yay — I just received a box of Boys’ Love Manga from the publisher! The official publication launch is August 2010, but I understand you can buy it now through Amazon.Com (although it’s listed as temporarily out of stock as of this posting); you can also order it directly from the publisher, McFarland & Company. [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Last Friday the New York Times published “Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away” about Skin Tight USA at the Stonewall Inn in West Village. The Skin Tight party — in which the costumes range from the familiar (like Spider-Man) to ones that only a comics geek would recognize (like the 1993 version [...]
drupagliassotti @ April 14, 2010 # 2 Comments
I just got the edits back from Apex, and I need to go through them before next Thursday. It’s exciting to think that we’re getting this close to publication! Good timing, though — yesterday afternoon I mailed off the proofs for the Boys’ Love Manga book, after my co-editors and I painstakingly pieced together the [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 25, 2010 # One Comment
The International Workshop on BL (Boys Love) Studies Glocal Polemics of ‘BL’ (Boys Love): Production, Circulation, and Censorship (download pdf for this call) Place: Oita University (Japan, Oita city near Fukuoka) Date: 22nd & 23rd January 2011 The genre of male homosexual narratives written by and for women, commonly called ‘BL’ (Boys’ Love), has recently [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 16, 2010 # 2 Comments
Many types of speech may be considered offensive and unpleasant. I’ve addressed two such types recently — virtual child pornography and VictOrientalism — reluctantly defending the first while critiquing the other. Does that seem counterintuitive? While I believe it’s important to object — preferably calmly and rationally — to those types of speech that one [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 3, 2010 # One Comment
When a colleague told me our building was on fire this afternoon, I grabbed my purse, laptop, library book, and the page proofs for Boys’ Love Manga, so that I wouldn’t lose any of my penciled-in edits if the building burned down! Turned out it was a burning lightbulb’s smoke being sucked into the ventilation [...]
drupagliassotti @ March 2, 2010 # No Comment Yet
I’ve just registered and booked my room for Yaoi-Con 2010 — the 10th anniversary event! It’ll be at the Hyatt Regency this year, and the guest of honor is going to be Ayano Yamane of the Finder and Crimson Spell series. (One of my favorite yaoi pins is one that says “Still Looking for Finder [...]