Category Archives: Graphic Novel: Tonoharu

My work was recently profiled in a couple of big English language publications in Japan:

Metropolis, an expat magazine serving the Tokyo area, just put up an article entitled “Hymn to the Lonely Man”, which can be found here:
http://metropolis.co.jp/features/feature/hymn-to-the-lonely-man/

And the Japan Times recently ran an article about profiling me and cartoonist Adam Pasion, which can be found here:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110205a1.html

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My sincere thanks to Metropolis editor James Hadfield, and Japan Times writer Gianni Simone for the coverage! Also, check out Adam Pasion’s comic about living and working in Japan: http://sundogscomix.blogspot.com/

The Star Tribune, Minnesota’s biggest newspaper, recently ran an article about Twin Cities cartoonists, and yours truly was among them! You can read it online here:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/114758329.html

Accompaning the article was a list of “10 Essential Minnesota-made Graphic Novels”, and Tonoharu was among them! You can see the full list here:
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/114758319.html

Annnnd finally, there’s an image gallery, which includes self-portraits of MN cartoonists and examples of their work, with my humble contribution among them:
http://www.startribune.com/galleries/114671784.html

Many thanks to Star Tribune reporter Tom Horgen for the excellent writeup!

Pictured: Detail of an self-portrait done for Fukuoka Now

I had planned to skip this week’s blog entry because I’m busy preparing presentations, but coincidentally two interviews with me just went live yesterday, so I figured I could link to them in lieu of my weekly entry:

First off, the Minneapolis weekly mag City Pages named me as one of their top 100 Creatives in the Twin Cities. Neat! An interview with me can be found over at their “Dressing Room” blog:
http://blogs.citypages.com/dressingroom/2011/01/lars_martinson.php

Secondly, Fukuoka Now, the monthly magazine for expats living in Fukuoka, Japan, named me as their “Gekkan Gaijin” (i.e. “foreigner of the month”) for February! A lengthy interview with me can be found over at their website:
http://www.fukuoka-now.com/articles/show/4535

Thanks to Jessica Armbruster at City Pages, and Nick Szasz & Alanna Schubach at Fukuoka Now for the coverage, and the great interview questions!

Certainly there’s no better Christmas treat than the gift of my voice, right, dear readers??

Producer/editor extraordinaire Britt Aamodt put together a great little five-minute radio piece about me for KFAI. You can hear it online here:
http://ampers.org/pieces/lars-martinson

Britt Aamodt is editor of the new book Superheroes, Strip Artists, & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists which you can get on Amazon.com right now!

Happy Holidays, Everyone!