PR: Mimei Sakamoto signing

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Brigid Alverson

MANGA ARTIST MIMEI SAKAMOTO BOOK SIGNING AT LOS ANGELES KINOKUNIYA

Renowned cartoonist and TV personality Mimei Sakamoto will sign copies of her latest manga from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 2, at Kinokuniya Books, 123 Onizuka St., Los Angeles.

Sakamoto, whose popular “Nippon no Mimei” manga series appears in the weekly Japanese magazine “Spa,” is co-author of “Harvey and Etsuko’s Manga Guide to Japan,” a zany east-meets-west look at what happens when a cartoon mouse from Manhattan asks a manga cat from Tokyo to help him find the keys to fame and fortune in Japan.

She is also a regular panelist on Nippon Television’s current-affairs program “Sukkiri.”

Published in November 2007 by Japanime Co. Ltd. and already in its second printing, “Harvey and Etsuko’s Manga Guide to Japan” is Sakamoto’s first manga to be released in English. She will sign copies of that book and her other manga on sale at Kinokuniya.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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