#TaiyoMatsumoto ‘#Sunny’ #Manga Animated Adaptation Showcases 1st Images http://dlvr.it/TKHbKK

Il manga “Sunny” di Taiyo Matsumoto diventerà un film d’animazione

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Annecy Animation Showcase at Cannes: GKIDS and Dwarf to Produce Taiyo Matsumoto’s Manga ‘Sunny’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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#TaiyoMatsumoto ‘#Sunny’ #Manga Getting Animated Adaptation http://dlvr.it/TKDK7P

« Tokyo, ces jours-ci » de Taiyô Matsumoto aux éditions Kana, une fantastique trilogie manga sur un éditeur qui démissionne après l’arrêt de sa revue de mangas et se retrouve à contacter nombre de dessinateur.ices plus ou moins âgé.es et oublié.es autour d’une nouvelle revue de son idéal. Où se percutent, avec des illustrations brutes, lâchées et saisissantes, les crises existentielles sous forme de pèlerinage plein d’humanisme.
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NDR | Graphic Novels: Matsumoto, Thomas Mann und die „Alten Knacker 8“
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Currently reading *Cats of the Louvre* by Taiyo Matsumoto.

A surreal journey into the secret world of the museum's feline residents. It’s the perfect escape to get lost in another world.

Originally in Japanese, it's available in German, French, English, and Spanish. Highly recommend for a unique, immersive read! 📚🐾

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Cats of the Louvre, a graphic novel by Taiyo Matsumoto

Happy Caturday!!

There are just 37 days remaining until election day, November 5. While Trump continues to display his growing cognitive issues as well as his ignorance of public policy, Kamala Harris has been making substantive appearances in which she intelligently spells out what she will do as president. Earlier in the week she spoke about her economic plans. Yesterday she visited the border in Arizona and gave a speech outlining her proposed immigration policies and attacking Trump’s failures. 

CNN: Harris goes to the border to take Trump to task for blocking bill to fix migration issues: ‘He prefers to run on a problem.’ 

Vice President Kamala Harris went on the offensive against former President Donald Trump on immigration Friday during her visit to the southern border in Arizona as she tries to turn a political vulnerability on its head.

Immigration has featured prominently in the 2024 presidential election, with polls showing voters placing more trust in Trump to handle the issue than Harris.

Democrats, grappling with years of border crises, have tried to gain ground by pointing to the bipartisan border measure that congressional Republicans blocked earlier this year after Trump came out against it. Harris on Friday lambasted Trump for his role in stymying that bill.

“It was the strongest border security bill we have seen in decades. It was endorsed by the Border Patrol union. And it should be in effect today, producing results in real time, right now, for our country,” she said at a rally in Douglas, a town on the US-Mexico border.

“But Donald Trump tanked it. He picked up the phone and called some friends in Congress and said, ‘Stop the bill,’” she said. “He prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. And the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games and their personal political future.”

She said she would ask Congress to pass the measure if she is elected, and would sign it into law. She also laid out a series of proposals that she said were “not just about some rhetoric at a rally,” but would help stem the flow of migrants into the United States.

A bit more:

“Solutions are at hand if we focus on fixing a problem and not running on a problem,” Harris said.

She said she’d work with Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for “hardworking immigrants who have been here for years, for years, and deserve to have a system that works,” as well as “Dreamers” – undocumented immigrants brought into the United States as children, who are allowed to live and work in the US under an Obama-era program but generally cannot become citizens under current law.

“They are American in every way. But still, they do not have an earned pathway to citizenship. And this problem has gone unsolved at this point now for decades,” Harris said. “The same goes for farmworkers who ensure that we have food on our tables and sustain our agricultural industry – and they too have been in legal limbo for years because politicians have refused to come together and fix our broken immigration system.”

Earlier this year, Biden announced an executive action severely limiting the ability of migrants to seek asylum at the US southern border if they crossed unlawfully – a departure from decadeslong protocol. Immigrant advocates have likened the executive action to Trump-era policies.

The measure can be turned on and off and lifted when there’s a daily average of fewer than 1,500 encounters between ports of entry, among other criteria. It remains in place.

Homeland Security officials have credited the action for driving down border crossings to the lowest point since 2020.

The Washington Post: Harris, in visit to border, proposes new restrictions on immigration. 

DOUGLAS, Ariz. — Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign on Friday proposed new border restrictions that would go further than the emergency rules the Biden administration deployed in June, making the announcement during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border Friday in an effort to confront one of her biggest political vulnerabilities.

By Taiyo Matsumoto

Harris’s proposed executive action would build on President Joe Biden’s current policy of essentially closing the U.S. asylum system unless illegal border crossings stay below 1,500 daily crossings for a week. Harris would lower that threshold and extend the period it must be met, advisers said, although exact figures were not immediately available.

The action might have a limited practical impact, at least in the short term, but the proposal appeared designed to send a message that Harris is taking a more assertive immigration posture than the administration in which she serves and that she is not ceding the issue to Donald Trump, who consistently scores higher marks among voters on border security and immigration.

In what her campaign had billed as a major speech in this community, which sits on the border, Harris also emphasized her support for an enforcement-heavy border security bill crafted by a bipartisan group of senators earlier this year. She decried Trump’s central role in derailing it, noting that he had urged Republicans in Congress to oppose the legislation.

“Donald Trump tanked it,” she said, standing amid six different signs that said in capital letters, “Border Security and Stability.”

“Because, you see, he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem,” she added. “And the American people deserve a president who cares more about border security than playing political games and their personal political future.”

Read more details at the WaPo link.

NPR: At the border in Arizona, Harris lays out a plan to get tough on fentanyl. 

Vice President Harris walked along the U.S. border with Mexico on Friday alongside a stretch of border wall built during the Obama administration, talking with border officials about their work.

It was a photo op meant to illustrate that she supports border security — one of the biggest concerns voters have about Harris — and to try to defang criticism from her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump.

Later, she embraced a mother whose son died of a fentanyl overdose, and made her most extensive remarks to date on how she would address border security and immigration reform.

“I will reach across the aisle and I will embrace common sense approaches and new technologies to get the job done,” she said….

She said her experience as a prosecutor and attorney general gave her experience to tackle the fentanyl problem.

“I’ve seen tunnels with walls as smooth as the walls of your living room, complete with lighting and air conditioning, making very clear that it is about an enterprise that is making a whole lot of money in the trafficking of guns, drugs and human beings,” she said.

“Stopping transnational criminal organizations and strengthening our border is not new to me, and it is a long standing priority of mine. I have done that work, and I will continue to treat it as a priority when I am elected president of the United States,” Harris said.

Read more at NPR.

Trump very much has not been focusing on policy, and if you’ve paid attention to his rallies and other public appearances, you know that he’s simply not capable of doing so. Even though he was “president” for four years, he has learned nothing about how the government works or about serious issues. He is incapable of learning, and why the media keeps propping him up is a mystery. Here are a couple of “issues” raised by the Trump camp over the past couple of days.

The New York Times: Trump Threatens to Prosecute Google for Showing ‘Bad Stories’ About Him. 

Former President Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to prosecute Google if he was elected to the presidency a second time, claiming that the tech company had been “illegally” showing only “bad stories” about him and only “good” ones about Vice President Kamala Harris.

By Taiyo Matsumoto

It was the latest instance of Mr. Trump threatening to prosecute his perceived opponents should he return to office. This month, he called for the prosecution of lawyers, political donors and operatives if they engaged in “unscrupulous behavior.”

Mr. Trump said at a news conference on Thursday that the former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted in connection with the security lapses by which a mob of his own supporters attacked the Capitol during the transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021.

And on Friday, in Michigan, he called for an attorney general “somewhere, like in a Republican territory” to investigate Ms. Pelosi and her husband over reports that Mr. Pelosi had sold Visa stock ahead of the Justice Department’s filing an antitrust lawsuit against the company.

It was not immediately clear what prompted Mr. Trump to make the statement about Google on his social media website, Truth Social.

“It has been determined that Google has illegally used a system of only revealing and displaying bad stories about Donald J. Trump, some made up for this purpose while, at the same time, only revealing good stories about Comrade Kamala Harris,” Mr. Trump wrote.

“This is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, and hopefully the Justice Department will criminally prosecute them for this blatant Interference of Elections,” he added. “If not, and subject to the Laws of our Country, I will request their prosecution, at the maximum levels, when I win the Election, and become President of the United States!”

Google said it did not manipulate search results to favor any candidate.

“Both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of search for relevant and common search queries,” a Google spokesman said.

The New Republic: Trump Is So Mad About His Bad Press That He’s Unleashed a New Threat. 

The source of Trump’s claim appears to be the right-wing Media Research Center, which published a report on Wednesday covered this week by Fox News and The New York Post.

MRC’s report “analyzed the Sept. 6 Google search results” for the terms “donald trump presidential race 2024” and “kamala harris presidential race 2024.” The group alleges that the results favored outlets with “a history of leftist bias,” and that, while Trump’s campaign website appeared sixth in his search results, Harris’s campaign website appeared third in hers.

Dismissing MRC’s report, a Google spokesperson told Fox, “Both campaign websites consistently appear at the top of Search for relevant and common search queries. This report looked at a single rare search term on a single day several weeks ago, and even for that search, both candidates’ websites ranked in the top results on Google.”

Trump’s Truth Social post recalls his previous claims that Google search results are biased against him, which Google has denied.

It is also yet another example of Trump promising to prosecute his perceived political foes if he retakes the White House. Earlier this month, for example, Trump posted to Truth Social that, if he wins, “those people that CHEATED”—such as “Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials”—“will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences.”

This is what Trump is preoccupied with a month before the November election.

Oh, and JD Vance continues to say the quiet part aloud when it comes to women’s control over their own bodies and lives. Recently, close Trump adviser did it too.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo: Trump Camp Says State Menstrual Surveillance Programs are A-OK. 

One of the most toxic and politically explosive parts of the current abortion rights debate is tied the complexities and perhaps inanities of leaving national abortion policy up to individual states. And a comment yesterday from Trump spokesman Jason Miller put the question right back into the center of the campaign.

By Taiyo Matsumoto

It’s not enough for many anti-abortion stalwarts to ban the procedure in their state. They want to ban legal drugs designed to induce abortion. They want to surveil and block women traveling to other states to obtain an abortion. One of the most threatening dimensions of these programs is that they threaten to make doctors and other medical professionals — who might give counsel on or simply know about a woman’s plans to obtain an abortion — responsible for reporting her actions. If you visit your OB-GYN and discuss traveling to another state to get an abortion, does your OB have to report you to the local sheriff? It applies to third parties who might assist a woman either in traveling to get an abortion or getting FDA-approved medications to induce an abortion at home. The cases we’ve already seen range the gamut from sheriff’s departments wanting to pull medical and travel records for evidence of pregnancies that ended for unexplained reasons, gaps in menstruation, trips out of state that coincided with a pregnancy not brought to term….

…[Y]esterday in an interview on Newsmax of all places, a host asked Trump spokesman Jason Miller whether Donald Trump supported or wouldn’t aim to prevent states from enforcing their own menstrual surveillance regimes. It was one of those Fox-like interviews in which the host seems to go out of his way to signal what the right answer is. You wouldn’t do this, right?

“But he wouldn’t support monitoring pregnancies, even if a state decided to do that?” the host asked.

Miller responded that “he’s [i.e., Trump’s] made it very clear that he’s not going to go and weigh in and push various states on how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That’s going to be up to the states.”

So he went there. It’s totally up to the states. Trump’s “leave it up to the states” approach applies to all these menstrual surveillance and travel restriction regimes as well. It’s a new opening for the Harris campaign to focus attention on an issue that hasn’t yet gotten enough attention — not just abortion rights as a general issue but states and county sheriffs’ effort to restrict women’s travel, access their medical records and current state of menstruation or gestation, and bar access to legal medications.

What else is on Trump’s befuddled mind these days? He’s “obsessed” with Olivia Nuzzi/RFK Jr. story.

The Daily Beast: Trump Is ‘Obsessed’ With RFK Jr.’s Sexting Scandal. 

Donald Trump has become “obsessed” with the sexting scandal surrounding his new ally Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi, according to a report.

The former president even called up the 70-year-old Kennedy—who’s married to Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines—to ask if the bombshell reports about him and the 31-year-old journalist were true, and if the relationship ever went beyond the sending of “demure” nudes, according to Puck News.

“[Kennedy] denied the whole thing to Trump,” a source with direct knowledge told the outlet. “He said he hardly knows her. He said he met her one time.”

Trump was also apparently close to making a public statement about the alleged digital dalliance, having “almost posted to Truth Social, his social media platform, ‘My condolences to Ryan Lizza…’” according to the Puck report. Lizza, a Politico journalist, ended his engagement to Nuzzi last month after learning of her relationship with Kennedy, according to Vanity Fair.

Trump apparently exercised more restraint than his adviser, Corey Lewandowski, who tweeted and then later deleted his own post sharing the Kennedy gossip.

Nuzzi had interviewed Trump for a piece published earlier this month which, in part, featured a detailed description of the GOP nominee’s ear bandaged up following the attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in July.

By Taiyo Matsumoto

I’m sure he’s read the latest gossip about the scandal at Page Six. The Daily Beast: ‘Madly in Love’ Olivia Nuzzi Had ‘Incredible’ FaceTime Sex With RFK Jr: Report. 

The forbidden love between New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been chronicled in a new report that reveals even more details of their dalliances.

The Page Six report, which cites only anonymous sources, claimed Friday the 31-year-old Nuzzi fell “madly in love” with the Kennedy scion, 70, after he “love bombed” her and sparked a virtual relationship during his campaign.

The two reportedly exchanged “I love yous” and had an affair that lasted nearly a year, complete with the duo having “incredible” FaceTime sex and speaking on “long calls.” The report also alleged that Nuzzi and Kennedy shared “endless texts” with each other.

Page Six reported that Nuzzi and Kennedy’s supposed relationship kicked off as Nuzzi worked on a profile of the failed presidential candidate for New York.

Nuzzi, who was engaged to Politico’s Ryan Lizza at the time, traveled to Los Angeles to interview Kennedy during a hike together in October 2023. It was on that hike that Kennedy, who has been married to the actress Cheryl Hines for 10 years, reportedly made his first pass at Nuzzi and grabbed her arm “as a romantic overture.”

Page Six reported that Nuzzi and Kennedy’s relationship heated up after the journalist contacted Kennedy with follow-up questions as she wrote her profile. The relationship reportedly remained under wraps for months, but word of it had reached Lizza by August.

Vanity Fairreportedthat Lizza had a “heated” call with Kennedy over the alleged affair upon learning of it. It remains unclear how Lizza caught wind of the reported fling, but the Daily Beast exclusively revealed this week that Kennedy had been bragging about receiving nude photos of Nuzzi.

I hope this will be the end of Nuzzi’s career in journalism, but it probably won’t be. She could always go to Fox News.

I’ve tried to keep this post light, because the news overall has been so depressing lately. In that spirit, I’m going to end with another hilarious, gossipy story about a Republican candidate.

Rolling Stone: Childless GOP Candidate Borrows Friend’s Wife and Kids for Photo Ops. 

Republicans have taken umbrage with the notion that they’re weird — specifically when it comes to accusations that they’re weird about people (usually women) who don’t have children. 

The sentiment in Republican politics that childless Americans are — as JD Vance put it — disorienting and disturbing has become so prevalent that one GOP candidate has taken to borrowing his friends’ wife and children for photo ops.

According to a Friday report from The New York Times, Derrick Anderson — a former Green Beret running for the House of Representatives in Virginia — has repeatedly featured a woman and her three daughters in campaign materials. 

One photo features the group posing close together in an image that you could probably find framed on a grandmother’s mantle, the type of photo that your parents made your uncle with a DSLR camera take because “we never get nice pictures together.” https://twitter.com/JacobRubashkin/status/1839759803729752271

In one campaign video, Anderson is seen walking side-by-side with the same woman. In another video, which was featured on the National Republican Campaign Committee’s website and on his YouTube channel, shows Anderson speaking to the woman and the three girls while seated in a home dining room. 

According to the Times, the woman and girls are “the wife and children of a longtime friend.” Anderson’s campaign website does not mention a wife or children, but notes that he “lives in Spotsylvania County with his dog, Ranger, a Dalmatian.” The Republican candidate recently revealed on social media that he is engaged to his girlfriend, Maggie, and has posted pictures of her — she is decidedly not the woman featured in the photos and videos.

By Taiyo Matsumoto

You can see the “family photo” in this article at Mediaite: Anti-Abortion GOP Candidate Borrows Friend’s Wife and Daughters for Campaign Photo Op.

A Friday article at The New York Times, headlined “G.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their Wives,” reported how “male Republicans struggling to appeal to female voters concerned about their records on reproductive rights are unleashing their spouses to make the pitch on their behalf.”

Male GOP candidates who are worried about getting dragged down by the abortion issue in November are putting their wives front and center in their campaign ads. That’s hardly a new phenomenon — candidates have showcased the stereotypical [husband + wife + at least two children + probably a dog or two] family photo for ages — but the Republican angst about Dobbs is so acute, at least one candidate resorted to faking an entire family for his ads.

These GOP ads included anodyne images of “women in softly lit living rooms and pristine kitchens vouching for their husbands’ characters,” “a wholesome family gathering around the dining room table,” and moms “driving S.U.V.s with young children in the back seat as they stop for gas and groceries, talking about how their husbands are champions for their families, and can be champions for yours, too.” [….]

So what do you do if you’re running for Congress with an R after your name but don’t have your own wife and kids?

If you’re Derrick Anderson, a candidate running in an open race for Virginia’s seventh congressional district, you borrow a wife and daughters from a friend.

From the Times report:

The campaign of Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret who is running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia’s Seventh District, has posted footage of him posing with a woman and her three daughters in what looks like a photo that might be used for an annual holiday card. In another scene filmed for potential use in a campaign ad, Mr. Anderson is seated around the dining room table with the same woman and three girls, chatting and smiling.

But the people are not relatives. They are the wife and children of a longtime friend. Mr. Anderson, who announced this month that he was engaged, does not have any children of his own. His campaign website says he lives with his dog and does not display any of the photos.

Isn’t it strange that Trump is never accompanied by his wife and family, but the media never mentions it?

That’s it for me today. Please take care, especially if you are/were in the path of Helene.

https://skydancingblog.com/2024/09/28/lazy-caturday-reads-179/

#abortionRights #CatsOfTheLouvre #DerrickAnderson #fakeFamily #Google #immigrationPolicy #JapaneseManga #OliviaNuzzi #RobertFKennedyJr_ #TaiyoMatsumoto

Comics 2024: Die interessantesten Neuerscheinungen | NDR.de - Kultur - Buch - Tipps
https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/tipps/Comics-2024-Die-interessantesten-Neuerscheinungen,comicausblick100.html

#Manga #HeroesManga #graphicnovel #TaiyōMatsumoto #KatzenDesLouvre #松本大洋 #ルーヴルの猫 #CrossingBorders

jungle.world | Die Katzen des Louvre
https://jungle.world/artikel/2024/26/die-katzen-des-louvre

#PAYWALLED #Manga #GraphicNovel #KatzenDesLouvre #TaiyoMatsumoto #松本大洋 #ルーヴルの猫

NDR | Graphic Novels: „Die Katzen des Louvre“, „SCUM“, „Zum Sterben schön“
https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/tipps/Graphic-NovelsDie-Katzen-des-Louvre-SCUM-Zum-Sterben-schoen,graphicnovels248.html

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Noir/Kuro du manga "Amer Béton" de Taiyo Matsumoto. #amerbeton #tekkonkinkreet #taiyomatsumoto

Extrait de « Sunny » (サニー), un manga de Taiyo Matsumoto (松本 大洋) dans lequel il s’inspire de sa propre expérience de vie dans un foyer pour enfants pendant six ans.

« Sunny » est l’histoire des enfants placés dans le foyer Star Kids, une combinaison de pension et d’orphelinat. Ils sont confrontés à la fois aux problèmes quotidiens de la croissance et à ceux spécifiques aux enfants abandonnés ou orphelins. Leur seul moyen de s’en sortir est la Sunny, une vieille voiture délabrée qui se trouve sur la pelouse de l’établissement. La Sunny est utilisée par les enfants pour aller comme par enchantement où ils veulent, voyager dans le monde, aller dans l’espace, ou simplement trouver un refuge face aux problèmes de la vie (extrait de Wikipedia en anglais).

Fait notable, pour cette série, Matsumoto a décidé d’utiliser pour les dialogues le dialecte du Kansai (région d’Osaka), considéré comme comme étant à la fois plus mélodieux et plus rude que le japonais standard, « afin de rendre cette histoire plus légère » a-t-il déclaré.

Edition française chez Kana :
https://www.kana.fr/series/sunny/

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