[HPforGrownups] Re: Re: picture books?

Neil Ward neilward at dircon.co.uk
Sat Sep 2 00:25:47 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 743

At 18:42 09/01/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>From: Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk>
>
>>Since it's been raised, the idea of a picture book version (or comic
>book
>>version) of the Harry Potter books is intriguing, not as a means of
>>simplifying the books or appealing to young children, but as an
>alternative
>>format.  Wasn't this done with "Lord of the Rings" for example?  Imagine
>>what some of those Japanese cartoonists would do with it.  
>
>eek!  don't call them cartoons.  It's anime.  Anime is *not* cartoons. 
>Cartoons are those cheezy things meant entirely for children.  Anime, on
>the other hand is full of nasty plot twists, creativity, subjects such as
>homosexuality that could *never* be dealed with in a cartoon, and
>incredible animation that surpasses any American animation (except,
>perhaps Disney).

Ooops! Terribly sorry, Dr MM.  Actually, I wasn't talking about animation or
anime, I was thinking about illustrated books in the same style, but I
expect I still sinned by calling the artists 'cartoonists'.  You know, I
should have learned my lesson by now, since one of my brothers lectures on
animation and gets rattled when I tell people that he "watches cartoons for
a living" (in my cheeky, big-brotherly way).  

So, fill me in: anime is the Japanese animation, but what is the comic book
equivalent called?  Is that also called anime?  Shouldn't it be called
illustre? What are the artists called?  Animartists?  Anime illustrators? 

Continuing this very large OT aside about anime, the Sci-Fi Channel here
just had a whole week of anime features.  I only saw bits, but I loved the
style.  I've also watched the Pokemon cartoons, sorry, ahem - anime - and
they seemed like kids' stuff in comparison.  

On last thing. I was in the Underground the other day and saw a poster for
the new Pokemon movie. There was a boy of about eight standing in front of
it, kissing each of the individual Pokemons in the picture, while his mother
screamed at him that they would miss the train.  The things children do!

Neil



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