Fukushima Devil Fish: Katsumata Susumu's Antinuclear Manga
Fukushima Devil Fish: Katsumata Susumu's Antinuclear Manga
Lecture by Ryan Holmberg
Nov. 29, 2017, 4:30 pm
University of Hawaii Manoa Hamilton Library
Lecture hosted by the University of Hawaii Manoa Center for Japanese Studies
In collaboration with the exhibition The Disasters of Peace: Social Discontent in the Manga of Tsuge Tadao and Katsumata Susumu (Honolulu Museum of Art, November 30, 2017 - April 15, 2018)
Critiques of nuclear energy in Japanese manga did not begin with the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns in 2011. One of the regulars of the legendary alternative manga monthly Garo in the magazine’s heyday of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Susumu Katsumata (1943-2007) has the curious distinction of having risen within the world of political cartooning and literary comics while studying toward a graduate degree in nuclear physics in Tokyo. In the late 70s, he began drawing frequent humor strips about the dangers of nuclear power and stories about the “nuclear gypsies” who maintained Japan’s nuclear plants under oppressive work conditions. This talk will survey Katsumata’s work on the subject of nuclear power, which is the largest, most diverse, and most trenchant such oeuvre in Japanese visual art. It serves as a preview of two upcoming publications: a collection of Katsumata’s manga titled Fukushima Devil Fish (SISJAC and Breakdown Press) and No Nukes for Dinner: How One Japanese Cartoonist and His Country Learned to Distrust the Atom (publisher TBD).
About the exhibition The Disasters of Peace:
Beyond manga’s occasional veneer of endearing innocence, the genre of gekiga (literally, “dramatic pictures”), which began in the mid 1950s and went mainstream in the late 1960s, addressed an adult audience and grappled with ethically complex social issues. Through monthly manga anthologies such as Garo, a faction of avant-garde manga artists with gritty, emotionally expressive styles and resolutely anti-authoritarian tones contributed to a new era of humanitarian concern and social activism.
The Disasters of Peace ironically alludes to The Disasters of War (1810–1820), a suite of prints produced by Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya (1746–1828) in response to the horrific violence that he witnessed during the Peninsular War of 1808–1814. In a similar way, the works of Tsuge Tadao (b. 1941) and Katsumata Susumu (1943–2007) displayed here reveal Japan’s plight during the demilitarized era that followed the Pacific War (1941–1945) and the Allied Occupation (1945–1952). Financial hardship, moral confusion, and the lingering shame of military defeat compelled individuals to behave in questionable ways, while large industries, myopically focused upon economic recovery, indulged in unfair labor practices and overlooked environmental hazards. In Garo and other manga publications, Tsuge and Katsumata drew attention to such crises and encouraged public debate about them. At a time when many Americans are similarly concerned about social equality, the future of our planet, and other serious subjects, may these artists inspire thoughtful conversations among ourselves.
About the manga exhibition series at the Honolulu Museum of Art:
Manga— Japanese graphic novels or comics—play a vital
role in contemporary Japanese culture. Not only do they
enjoy immense popularity (annual sales within Japan have
risen to more than two billion US dollars); internationally,
they have become the centerpiece of the “Cool Japan
Initiative,” the Japanese government’s current campaign to
promote its status as a cultural superpower. Manga’s
popularity partly arises from the medium’s historical
connection with Japanese woodblock prints and paintings
(ukiyo-e), which were produced in Japan throughout the Edo
period (1615–1868). The term manga, in fact, was coined by
the renowned ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–
1849).
Since 2014, in its mission to expand and significantly
enhance its renowned collection of Japanese works on
paper, the museum has acquired several examples of
Japanese manga by artists such as Maruo Suehiro (b. 1956)
and Anno Moyoco (b. 1971). In 2016, the Honolulu Museum
of Art furthermore presented Visions of Gothic Angels:
Japanese Manga by Takaya Miou (August 25, 2016–January
15, 2017), the first in a series of exhibitions that explore the art-historical importance of manga. That series now
continues with The Disasters of Peace: Social Discontent
in the Manga of Tsuge Tadao and Katsumata Susumu.
Ferocious Ink: A Conversation between Line Hoven and Nora Krug
MFA Visual Narrative and the Goethe-Institut New York present an evening with authors and illustrators Line Hoven and Nora Krug. Hoven and Krug will present their explorations of German identity in their graphic work and discuss ways of weaving the personal, cultural and historical into new forms of storytelling.
Line Hoven, born in 1977, lives and works as a freelance illustrator and comic artist. Her graphic novel »Liebe schaut weg« (Love looks away) has been translated into a number of languages, won the ICOM Independent award and has been awarded with the e.o. Plauen Förderpreis (e.o. Plauen sponsorship award). Together with Jochen Schmidt her books Dudenbrooks and Schmythologie were recently published. Her scratchboard works are regularly featured in a number of different magazines and newspapers such as Strapazin, Le Monde diplomatique and in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Line Hoven is currently the Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College, U.S.A.. Line Hoven is the beautiful sister Robert Crumb always wished for. - Teresa Präauer, aspekte award winning author and visiting professor at Grinnell College on the work of Line Hoven.
Nora Krug is an author and artist whose drawings and visual narratives have appeared in periodicals including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and le Monde Diplomatique, and in anthologies published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Simon and Schuster and Chronicle Books. Krug has won fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Maurice Sendak Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Fulbright Program. Her visual narratives won three gold medals from the Society of Illustrators, a silver cube from the Art Directors Club, and were chosen for Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Comics and Best American Non-Required Reading. Her animations were shown at the Sundance Film Festival, and her books are included in the Library of Congress, the Sundance Collection at UCLA, and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. Krug is an associate professor at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.
RE-VIEWING Black Mountain College
Featuring keynote speaker Kenneth Snelson. Snelson was an art student at Black Mountain College in the summers of 1948 and 1949, where he studied with Buckminster Fuller and Josef Albers. He made the original discovery of the tension/compression principle, tensegrity which defines his structural sculptures. A major American sculptor, his work is in public and private collections worldwide.
Brian Selznick: Struck With Wonder
Brian Selznick has been making children’s books since 1991. His illustrated novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret won the 2008 Caldecott medal and was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning movie Hugo. Wonderstruck, his 2011 follow up to The Invention of Hugo Cabret was made into a movie by celebrated filmmaker Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Selznick. The Marvels, the third book in a trilogy loosely connected to Hugo and Wonderstruck by themes of family and discovery, was published in 2016. Celebrated as much for their stunning object quality as for their rich narrative, Selznick’s books are best summarized in his own words: “It’s not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book or a movie, but a combination of all these things.” Selznick has also worked as a puppeteer and a set designer, and began his career as a bookseller at Eeyore’s Books for Children in New York City. Working with Christopher Wheeldon at the Joffrey last year, he wrote a new narrative for a re-imagined Nutcracker, which takes place in Chicago during the construction of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. His newest project is a 200-page illustrated book for beginning readers called Baby Monkey, Private Eye, written by his husband, Dr. David Serlin.
Supported by Screen Arts & Cultures, the Zell Visiting Writers Series, and the Chelsea River Gallery.
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00:01:16 1 History
00:01:24 1.1 1890s–1900s
00:07:33 1.1.1 Trick Films
00:10:39 1.2 1910s
00:18:02 1.3 1920s
00:18:11 1.3.1 German Expressionism
00:23:50 1.3.2 Universal Classic Monsters 1920s
00:28:39 1.3.3 Other productions
00:33:21 1.4 1930s
00:33:30 1.4.1 Universal Classic Monsters 1930s
00:42:56 1.5 1940s
00:46:36 1.6 1950s
00:59:00 1.7 1960s
01:07:22 1.8 1970s–1980s
01:16:40 1.9 1990s
01:22:59 1.10 2000s
01:34:07 1.11 2010s
01:44:41 2 Subgenres
01:52:31 3 Influences
01:52:39 3.1 Influences on society
01:55:18 3.2 Influences internationally
01:57:02 4 See also
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A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit fear for entertainment purposes. Initially inspired by literature from authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley, horror has existed as a film genre for more than a century. The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. Horror may also overlap with the fantasy, supernatural fiction, and thriller genres.
Horror films often aim to evoke viewers' nightmares, fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Plots within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage into the everyday world. Prevalent elements include ghosts, extraterrestrials, vampires, werewolves, demons, Satanism, evil clowns, gore, torture, vicious animals, evil witches, monsters, zombies, cannibalism, psychopaths, natural, ecological or man-made disasters, and serial killers.Some sub-genres of horror film include low-budget horror, action horror, comedy horror, body horror, disaster horror, found footage, holiday horror, horror drama, psychological horror, science fiction horror, slasher, supernatural horror, gothic horror, natural horror, zombie horror, disaster films, first-person horror, and teen horror.
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