Me and the Devil Blues
Found a manga loosely based on the life and works of cult blues guitarist Robert Johnson: Me and the Devil Blues by Akira Hiramoto. It is interesting to view black people’s life in the 1930’s deep south through the eyes of a Japanese mangaka. In spite of the usual cultural collisions, I think it works quite well. The story is serialized in one of my favourite manga magazines, Afternoon. It goes on my must-buy list when I get to Japan.
April 7th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
OH MY GOD!
I NEVER knew this existed and I always wanted to create comics showing my history. I am African American but I cannot draw that well to do comics and I am trained as a lawyer!
There is a WONDERFUL cartoon that you may be interested in called Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans by Roland Owen Laird, Jr. You can buy it from http://www.amazon.com used. I think they stopped printing it.
Thank you for sharing with us!
I plan on going to Japan next year!