Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
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Paul Gravett's Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics cites the storytelling tradition of kami-shibai ("paper theater") as an influence on manga artists of the '40s and '50s.
Before the widespread ownership of TV sets, thousands flocked to watch these live performances, which resembled a form of street television. An actor would act out the dialogue while displaying a series of illustrated story-sheets in a TV-shaped window.
Other sources indicate that the performance was lubricated by the exchange of money for candy, and that the itinerant story-teller, bicycle-transported, always left his audience with a cliffhanger. I like the idea of kami-shibai. It's a reminder that so long as you have a story, someone to tell it, someplace for him to stand, and someone to listen, you have theater. posted: 8:04:55 PM |
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Now, the internet doesn't need one more loving, long-form
rave about the brilliance of J.D. Salinger.
Well, maybe it does. posted: 4:57:30 PM |
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