Author: Sean Michael Wilson

Sean Michael Wilson is a Harvey and Eisner award nominated comic book writer from Scotland, who lives in Japan. He has had more than a dozen books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, including: a comic book version of A Christmas Carol ('Best of 2008’, Sunday Times), AX:alternative manga ( 'Best ten books of 2010’, Publishers Weekly), Parecomic (with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, his first contribution to a book in graphic form). In 2016 his book 'The Faceless Ghost' was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Book Awards, and won a medal in the 2016 'Independent Publisher Book Awards'. In 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese government - he is the first British person to receive this award. He is currently writing books for big Japanese publisher Kodansha, being the only British writer to do so. In fact, he is the only pro manga writer from Britain who lives in Japan. He has written a unique line of Japanese history/martial arts/Samurai books, including The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure, The 47 Ronin, and a biography of Musashi, with more on the way. For NBM he has written The Story of Lee and Breaking the 10. His main influences remain British and American creators - such as Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Eddie Campbell and Harvey Pekar. He often gives lectures and talks about comics in schools and colleges. http://seanmichaelwilson.weebly.com

Breaking the 10 volume 2 – listing now!

After quite a bit of difficulty and rearranging of the book’s ending Volume 2 of our BREAKING THE 10 is finished… and is presently listed in this month’s Previews catalogue from Diamond distributor.

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Order it from Previews Customer Order Form, page 27 (or p377 in the full catalogue), under the publishers name ‘NBM’ (and with a cute ‘Certified Cool’ stamp of recommendation).

Diamond Code: DEC17 1696

With Volume 1 of the book re-listed under code:  DEC171697

 

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Despite the trouble we had I’m very proud of this book and really looking forward to seeing volume 2 come out printed well.

Nice!

NBM’s page for the book HERE

And more pages from the book can be seen at my WEB SITE

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CAT – Comic Art Tokyo

I will be a guest at the CAT event in Tokyo this week, Nov 25th, alongside my artist colleagues Akiko Shimojima and Michiru Morikawa (the artist of our book BREAKING THE 10 book, published NBM. Our talk is at 11.30am on the topic of ‘international collaborations’me CAt event akiko mii

Be there or be onigiri!

コミックアート東京は、世界のコミックカルチャー文化について学びながらその楽しみを共有し合う、コミュニティを中心としたインタラクティブなイベントです。それらを体現するため、このイベントはディスカッション、手軽なワークショップ、アート作品の展示、著者自身による朗読、そしてライブアートといったアクティビティを展開しています。

第2回目となる2017年度のイベントは、11月25日(土)にテンプル大学ジャパンキャンパスにて開催いたします。

Comic Art Tokyo is a community-focused, interactive festival with the goal of fostering mutual appreciation and education about the various comic traditions from around the world. To that end, our festival includes discussions, hands-on workshops, gallery exhibitions, author readings, and live art demonstrations.

Our sophomore event will be held at Temple University Japan Campus on Saturday, November 25th.

http://www.comicarttokyo.com/

Story of Lee volume 3

I’ve officially started writing the script for volume three of our book with NBM

– The Story of Lee.

Let’s see what happens to Matt and Lee. Will they stay together or split? Will Lee stay in Britain or go back to Hong Kong?  How about Uncle Jun?

Who knows?

No one, yet.

Not even me!

Meanwhile, there are a few copies of the special Story of Lee banded set left. Not many as its sold well.

This is a good deal, with volume 1 and volume 2 of the book packaged together with a specially printed band (or ‘obi’ as they called in Japan). And its $4 cheaper to buy this banded set of the two volumes.

Get your copy here:

http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/storyoflee/storyofllee_home.html

SOL banded july 2017

 

Story of Lee – banded set, out soon!

SOL banded setComing in July 2017  THE STORY OF LEE  – banded set. 

This is a good deal, with volume 1 and volume 2 of the book packaged together by a specially printed band (or ‘obi’ as they called in Japan). You can save $4 by buying this banded set of the two volumes.

Sean Michael Wilson 

Nami Tamura  and Chie Kutsuwada

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Lee, living in Hong Kong, meets Matt, a fine young Scot. Their relationship becomes stronger by the day, despite their deep cultural differences. But there is Lee’s Dad to contend with who views this affair very suspiciously. And there is another contender for Lee’s heart, a Chinese young man, whose jealousy takes on twinges of xenophobia. Will Lee and Matt’s relationship successfully cross the cultural divide and overcome the negative odds? Two worlds collide creating good sparks… and bad ones. In volume 2, it’s the reverse as they move to Scotland.

Collected in one specially priced banded set.

5 x 7 1/2″, 2 book set, B&W trade pbs, 320pp., normally $24, $19.99 ISBN 9781681121055

Get it here:

http://www.nbmpub.com/comicslit/storyoflee/storyofllee_home.html

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Music in The STORY OF LEE

There are a lot of references to music in both volume 1 and volume 2 of our series with NBM – THE STORY OF LEE. For the simple reason that music is very important to me and wanted to stick some in.

The mention on this page is an actual Edinburgh band called THE THANES, a 60s style garage punk band. They have been going in Scotland since the early 80s and are still around – that’s devotion for ye!

Check out THE STORY OF LEE volume 2 for more than the music!

http://seanmichaelwilson.weebly.com/story-of-lee.html

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International Manga Awards Certificate

The award ceremony for the International Manga Awards 国際漫画賞 in Tokyo was held this week. Our book got bronze award from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs 外務省

Here is my artist comrade, Akiko Shimojima, accepting the award,  the inside of my copy of the award… and close up of a board that was signed by all winners and a bunch of well known Japanese manga-ka creators who came along to the ceremony.

Nice!

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