This weekend in Los Angeles we’ll be attending at or hosting a few different events!
Reading Evil: A Short Review of On the Set of Resident Evil 2: The TV Commercial
Norman England’s new book documents the production of George Romero’s Resident Evil 2 commercial from 1997.
Ride on, Lonely Soldier Boy: The Production History of Mospeada
On the anniversary of Mospeada’s TV premiere, we take a look at the unusual production history behind one of the more iconic shows to come out of the gunpla boom.
Zimmerit Goes to Wonder Festival US
The first Wonder Festival event in the US happened at MomoCon in Atlanta this past May. We had a table and sold some kits.
Front Mission Talk in Huffman: Yoshitaka Amano vs Kow Yokoyama
The 1995 art book Front Mission in Huffman brought together Yoshitaka Amano and Kow Yokoyama for a conversation about their early careers, Japanese painting, video games, and making models.
Resin Punks Now Available
The latest Zimmerit book is all about ’80s garage kit culture.
Mecha from Montreal, A History of Heavy Gear Ch. I: Protoculture Addicts & Mecha Press
Wearing its VOTOMS influence on its sleeve, the tabletop game Heavy Gear rose to prominence in the late ’90s. It had come, albeit indirectly, out of foundations laid in 1987 by a handful of Canadian Robotech fans who wanted to start a fanzine.
The Five Star Stories Original Video That Never Was
In early 1988 General Products began advertising a Five Star Stories original video that would feature animation by Hideaki Anno and direct involvement from the manga’s creator, Mamoru Nagano.
On the Precipice of Professional Anime Magazines: Animag
In 1987 fans from the Bay Area published what was, for its time, the closest thing to a professional anime magazine in English.
Comic Margarita’s Daicon IV Travelogue
A translation of a Daicon IV convention report originally published in the pages of the short-lived Comic Margarita.