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(Date Posted:06/09/2005 6:20 PM)
Here's one of the few threads I was able to salvage from ezboard. I'm reposting it here, just in case anyone wants to continue this discussion. Posted by: Matt ThornBR5/30/05 5:14 pm) Topic: Hagio interview for TCJ God, it took forever, but I have finally finished translating my roughly three-and-a-half-hour interview with Hagio Moto, to be published in the upcoming issue of The Comics Journal. Translating itself was a piece of cake. The hard part was writing nearly fifty footnotes! I can't assume any prior knowledge on the part of TCJ readers, so every name and title, not to mention social reference, had to be explained in footnotes. I'm confident that this will be the most footnoted long interview in TCJ's very long history. :p Despite the length, it is not what I would call a comprehensive interview. I didn't go over every phase of Hagio's thirty-five year career. In fact, we only go into detail about her life up through her earliest years as a pro, in the so-called "O-izumi Salon." The rest is mostly about Hagio's themes. She's a person who would rather talk about ideas than talk about herself. But in discussing her themes, we inevitably end up talking her motivations, which in turn are rooted in her difficult relationship with her parents, and her childhood growing up in a dysfunctional family. I'm quite proud of the way the interview turned out. So the feature will include, in addition to the interview, there will be a complete Hagio bibliography (which I am hurriedly translating today), an article (which I also wrote) on the "24 Year Group," or as I like to call them, the "Forty-Niners," and a translation of Hagio's 16-page masterpiece, "Hanshin." And of course there will be plenty of beautiful art, some of which has never before been made public. The TCJ people sent me the rough of the cover, and it's going to be gorgeous. If you only ever buy one copy of The Comics Journal, make it this one!Both Hagio and the TCJ folks have given me permission to put the original Japanese interview on my web site, though first I'll have to find a volunteer to transcribe the whole thing for nothing more than my gratitude and maybe a free meal. And I seem to recall Dirk Deppey telling me that I could post the translated interview, too, after six months or something like that. By the way, Hagio and I are both being paid in lots of free Fantagraphics books.Matt Thorn Posted by: Matt ThornBR6/3/05 10:41 am) Topic: Re: Hagio interview for TCJ It looks like there were two responses to this post, but they seem to have disappeared in Tuesday's attack on ezboard. Whoever posted them, it would be great if you could post them again! Matt Thorn Posted by: SibauchiBR6/3/05 10:16 pm) Topic: Re: Hagio interview for TCJ Oh, that was just me. I was just saying what a great job you did, writing and translating an article and interview for a large portion of readers probably unfamiliar with shoujo manga itself. (I had to introduce jyosei-muke games and yaoi this semester to colleagues whom most of them were not even familiar with manga, so I can imagine what a stressful job you had with all those footnotes) I was also asking if you knew what dates the new issues of The Comics Journal comes out, since I really want to read that interview, and I've been meaning to pick it up at the downtown comic book store(I think they might have it) before I leave Canada this mid-June. (their website at www.tcj.com/ hasn't been working) Because of the error I ended up posting two of the (pretty much the) same posts, although neither turned up. Hope this one does! Later: OK, ez Board is still having some problems, apparently. I had to go through two error pages and several re-loadings to post this message. Have you contacted ez Board? It seems a lot of other users are having similar problems as well. Posted by: Dirk DeppeyBR6/4/05 2:13 am) Topic: The Comics Journal Hey there. The shoujo manga issue of the Journal should hit comics-shop shelves sometime around the beginning of July, and other newsstands a week or two later.
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Matt Thorn
Department of Comics Production
Kyoto Seika University
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