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Oct.11.2012
Five foreign languages have I learned in my time, to varying levels of fluency. The first was German, at high school and later at a college in Germany. Then came Korean, because I was living there, working as an English teacher. Then came Japanese, which I learned for the same reason as Korean....
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Oct.10.2012
Renowned rock star Pete Townshend has just published his autobiography, Who I Am, a book which he has dedicated to 'the artist inside all of us.' In Pete's autobiography you will read all about the man in his own words. But to get an even more complete picture, read his clearest and most direct...
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Oct.04.2012
My colleague Kate Krake, of vividscribe.com, wrote an essay on the topic of metamodern movie musicals, for example, High Fidelity.* I illustrated it as a comic and it is now available for digitial download here, free for a limited time! You will get something out of this comic regardless of how...
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Sep.26.2012
Akira, by Katsuhiro Otomo is a comic of about 2000 pages in length, published in six large volumes. It was originally published in Japan between 1982 and 1990. Most people in the west who know about it are probably familiar with it due to the 1988 animated movie adaptation, also directed by Otomo....
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Sep.19.2012
Here is an illustration for the book Secrets of Popular Culture, drawn in early 2007. Cast your mind back to those days. One of the big stories was about a practice called 'extraordinary rendition'.
This cartoon inspired the book Test Your English, and was reprinted in another recent book of mine...
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Sep.18.2012
This post contains coarse language. I drew the cartoon below a couple of months ago. In Korea last week, it was published in my new book Test Your English. (That link goes to a Korean website. Click here to see that book's Redroom page). However this week I am seeing the same kind of image in my...
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Jul.24.2012
Subtitled: Translating your own work
Rakonto de Ovoj is the Esperanto edition of Egg Story. It's mainly available in Japan at the moment, where it was published. See below for detaila about that. It will be available more widely soon, though it had quite a small print run. ISBN 9874930785565....
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About J
J Marc Schmidt is the creator of many graphic novels including Egg Story and All You bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge, a book of essays, and an ESL textbook. His work has been published in several languages. The J stands for Jonathon.
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