February 15, 2003

  • Tomorrow – Sunday 16th Feb – 12.00pm – Hyde Park - We’ll be walking against war in Iraq. There were 100,000 protesters in Melbourne yesterday. Let’s hope for even more numbers tomorrow.

    The only graphic novel I’ve read by Paul Pope is Heavy Liquid, and I loved its raw, brushy, “noir” style. Just found this great interview  with Paul Pope on the subject of Manga.

    PULP: So you think that manga at its best is character-driven.
    POPE: Oh, absolutely. I mean, when I was working at Kodansha, they always said, “We don’t care what the story’s about–just give us a character that we care about; give us a personality that we want to look at, that we want to identify with, that we want to understand. And that was really the thing that they were always driving home. - etc