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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Big in Japan
:: Posted by Bryan @ 8/29/2006 03:01:00 AM 
Sequential has received unconfirmed reports that BC cartoonist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is responsible in part for the #3 book on Amazon Japan. Hachidori, a book about ecological issues like food mileage and the Kyoto Accord, features illustrations/comics in Yahgulanaas' patented "Haida-manga" style.
Apparently, a 20,000 copy print run August 24th was heavily pre-ordered (a "sell-out") and the publisher had to print another 20,000 copies the next day. The book has sold 80,000 copies in Japan since April 2005.
According to an email from the artist explaining things:
"The kick that started this latest interest was a NHK (TV) report. The tv did not mention publisher price or where to buy the book- the buyers researched it out making the interest all that more impressive.
The book is in part translated --apprx 30 pages- 10 are haida manga- the rest a series of essays about ecological recovery strategies.
There is interest in the drawing style as well as the simple messages- problems are not solved by results but through process- ie "I do what I can"
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Interested readers who are more confident in their abilities to read Japanese are invited to visit Amazon.jp or contact the publisher themselves.
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