Kazu Liked Matsumoto
I was happy to read that Kazu Kibuishi really enjoyed Taiyo Matsumoto’s Tekkon Kinkreet, particularly since he says it was the interview I published that pushed him to finally pick the book up off his to-read pile. The piece he wrote on approaching Matsumoto’s work, and the book itself, is also really interesting. I’m aware that when you push a creator or a work really hard, people (particularly hardcore comics readers) tend to bristle. The number of comments in my feed reader in a given week that are some variation on living or not living up to the “hype” is kind of ridiculous… Anyway, Kazu lays his thought-processes on engaging the work bare, and like I said, it’s worth reading.
So this means that yes Jim, you have to read it again.
- Christopher
July 21st, 2008 | by Chris
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July 21st, 2008 at 10:32 am
I finally read it last week and loved it as well. I bought it way back when when you were originally promoting it, so thanks for alerting me to this amazing book!
July 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
You and Tom are both riffing on “comic fans are basically complete dicks” today.
July 21st, 2008 at 2:41 pm
and by “today” I mean “three days ago.”