I be famous! Doctor F's Catch as Catch Can, an online "Essay and Essay" (!) posted on the Japanese-language Tornado Base web site, is a collaboration between legendary subculture publisher Doctor F and manga-ka Kondo Yutaka. (Sharp-eyed readers will recognize his trademark handiwork from Hello, Please! too.)
That's me, apparently, in the middle, hoisting a three-pack of Illanena's Daikaiju Trump soft vinyls amidst the chaos of WonderFest. The best part, aside from the fact I've been drawn wearing a T-shirt reading "gaijin" (oh, if only my wardrobe were so fly) is the all-katakana rendition of my speech, which probably sounds to native-speaking Japanese people like a recently-immigrated Indian cabbie's speech sounds to a New Yorker. "Cool desho?"
Cool.
Wish I was there.
Posted by: Gilles Poitras | September 01, 2007 at 09:39 PM
I am _so_ goddamn jealous of you right now.
He could have included Yaco with a mosaic over his face.
Posted by: Roger | September 01, 2007 at 10:54 PM
Well, shucks. Am I famous by extension if I own the toys?
Cool beans, Matt!
Posted by: Corey | September 03, 2007 at 01:51 PM
Since when did you get so weathered-looking? That's
a serious hobo/drifter face he's got on you there ...
Posted by: Ryan | September 07, 2007 at 12:49 AM
It's a hard life, collecting soft-vinyl kaiju...
Posted by: Matt | September 07, 2007 at 09:59 AM
Incidentally, popping Doctor F's website into Babelfish gives us the following translation. I couldn't have done it better myself.
"There it happens along, mat alto!
America it was the mat which has lived in Boston, but the beauty wife of the Japanese the you take, now revive the company of translation in Japan.
From time of infancy the Japanese animation lover. Especially liking the toy of the super alloy, the nice guy-gin which writes also the how book, well it is nice mania. When bean jam ball large quantity you buy, you get angry to the lady."
Posted by: Matt | September 21, 2007 at 11:02 AM