There’s going to be a "massive" party on Prince Street this weekend.
Check out McNally Jackson this Sunday evening for Tiger Beer and AsiaDog, and to celebrate an epic anthology of gay erotic manga with our good friends behind Massive, Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins.
For this occasion, I had the chance to ask Anne about the book and what ignited her interest in such a niche subject. She said it all started when Chip Kidd enlisted her help with understanding a collection of Japanese manga artist Gengoroh Tagame’s work. "My approach to some of the artwork is based on some level of voyeuristic fascination,” she says. "But actually, once I discovered this genre of manga—how deep it went, how rich it was, how beautiful and important for gay men—I knew it was imperative for it be brought to a Western audience, if only for one reason: to celebrate the Asian masculine male persona.”
I was also super interested to ask Anne what words proved most difficult to translate. In this case, it was the sexual sounds. She says, "The rote onomatopoeia used in Japanese is not just phonetically implausible in English; it's much more nuanced because of the spelling system. I don't know if this will make sense, but you can describe gasping in Japanese much more accurately.”
I love this.
To chat with Anne Ishii or Graham Kolbeins IRL, stop by McNally Jackson, Sunday January 18 at 7 PM for the launch of Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
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Pre-game faces: OC contributor Fiona Duncan and McNally's Matt Pieknik in archival Massive x Opening Ceremony
Check out McNally Jackson this Sunday evening for Tiger Beer and AsiaDog, and to celebrate an epic anthology of gay erotic manga with our good friends behind Massive, Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins.
For this occasion, I had the chance to ask Anne about the book and what ignited her interest in such a niche subject. She said it all started when Chip Kidd enlisted her help with understanding a collection of Japanese manga artist Gengoroh Tagame’s work. "My approach to some of the artwork is based on some level of voyeuristic fascination,” she says. "But actually, once I discovered this genre of manga—how deep it went, how rich it was, how beautiful and important for gay men—I knew it was imperative for it be brought to a Western audience, if only for one reason: to celebrate the Asian masculine male persona.”
I was also super interested to ask Anne what words proved most difficult to translate. In this case, it was the sexual sounds. She says, "The rote onomatopoeia used in Japanese is not just phonetically implausible in English; it's much more nuanced because of the spelling system. I don't know if this will make sense, but you can describe gasping in Japanese much more accurately.”
I love this.
To chat with Anne Ishii or Graham Kolbeins IRL, stop by McNally Jackson, Sunday January 18 at 7 PM for the launch of Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It
McNally Jackson Books
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
MAP
Pre-game faces: OC contributor Fiona Duncan and McNally's Matt Pieknik in archival Massive x Opening Ceremony