yescomics:

I feel bad I haven’t updated in so long! It’s not that I haven’t been reading comics- I’ve a huge backlog now- but I’ve been mega busy the past few weeks. First of all there was the Thought Bubble festival in Leeds, and then I was away to Japan for a conference. While in Kyoto I got the chance to visit the International Manga Museum and I’m really glad that I did. 

As I’ve said before I know very little about Japanese comics, but this didn’t really matter in the Manga Museum. It was just so great to be in a building dedicated to comic art and to see comics being respected and discussed as a serious art form and contribution to culture. As well as the copious amount of manga available for visitors to read, there was also children’s events, historical information, technical information on manga creation and a special study area for academics of manga. The Cartoon Museum in London is a lovely place, but if there was somewhere like this in the UK I’d be in there every weekend!