Talks

Below is a selection of talks about manga history and translation that are available online. For a full list of lectures and public interviews given at universities, symposia, and festivals, please see my CV.

September 2024

Igaguri-Kun and The Judo Manga Revolution still.

Small Press Manga Publishing: Mangaberg vs Bubbles

CXC Comics Crossroads Columbus  

September 2022

Igaguri-Kun and The Judo Manga Revolution still.

Igaguri-Kun and The Judo Manga Revolution

SPX Small Press Expo  

September 2022

Yamada Murasaki’s Talk to My Back talk still.

Yamada Murasaki’s Talk to My Back

New Books Network  

August 2022

Yamada Murasaki and Women’s Alt-Manga still.

Yamada Murasaki and Women’s Alt-Manga

Multiversity Comics  

June 2022

Manga 4 point 5 talk video still.

Yokoyama Yuichi, Plaza, and Translation

Living the Line  

December 2021

Manga 4 point 5 talk video still.

Bat Kid, Baseball, and Bubbles

Gutter Boys Podcast  

June 2021

Manga 4 point 5 talk video still.

Me, Manga, and Translation

Adam Savage  

April 2021

Manga 4 point 5 talk video still.

Manga 4.5: Building Comics with Mats and Stone

NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium  

March 2021

The Manga Translation Industry talk video still.

The Manga Translation Industry

ROAR: Deep Dives, Middlebury Institute of International Studies  

May 2020

The Swamp talk video still.

Tsuge Yoshiharu’s The Swamp: Interviewed by Tom Devlin

Drawn & Quarterly  

July 2019

Yoshitoshi and Manga talk video still.

Yoshitoshi and Manga

Philadelphia Museum of Art (paired with a talk by Ronald Wimberly)  

September 2018

Gekiga a la Mode talk video still.

Gekiga à la Mode: Baron Yoshimoto, Comics, and Japanese Men’s Fashion

SPX Small Press Expo  

November 2017

Garo talk video still.

Garo and the Birth of Alternative Manga

Honolulu Museum of Art School  

November 2017

Fukushima Devil Fish talk video still.

Fukushima Devil Fish: The Antinuclear Manga of Katsumata Susumu

Honolulu Museum of Art School  

April 2017

Manga Translation as Typographic Voice Acting talk video still.

Manga Translation as Typographic Voice Acting

Baruch College, New York