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 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 @ February 1, 2010 # 2 Comments
Last April I mentioned that I’d been introduced to the term “girlfag” by German scholar Uli Meyer, who ended up contributing a chapter to our Boys’ Love Manga academic collection. I wrote that the concept intrigued me and seemed potentially relevant to slash and BL fans. However, I’d had a hard time finding anything out [...]
drupagliassotti @ January 4, 2010 # 4 Comments
My chapter in our upcoming boys’ love anthology compares heterosexual to male/male romances, and as I’ve written here before, I’ve been thinking about turning my research attentions away from yaoi and toward the new genre of original, English-language, female-authored male/male romance novels. Lo, yesterday a friend sent me this link to an article in the [...]