MIYAZAKI HAYAO
Spirited Away
2011-12-17
Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated feature, Spirited Away tells the story of 10-year-old Chihiro, a girl in the midst of a move to the suburbs who wanders into a strange town and finds a world of spirits ruled over by the mysterious Yubaba.
People of the Desert
2011-12-14
A manga which Miyazaki wrote for a newspaper targeted for children. It is more of a graphic novel than a manga, since most of the text are written outside of the frames and there are very few dialogue bubbles (though towards the end of the story, it moved closer to the traditional manga style).The surprisingly dark story deals with the devastation of war, betrayal, and the ugliness of the human nature under desperate situations, including deaths of several characters. One can see the influence of TEZUKA Osamu in the art style of this manga (as in most of the manga written in this time), but you can also clearly see the style and motives you find in Miyazaki's later works such as "Nausica�¤". In a sense, this is a prototype of "Nausica�¤".
Otto Carius
2011-12-13
Hayao Miyazaki's comics version of the memoirs of the German tank ace Otto Carius in Estonia, not long before the end of WWII. All characters are drawn as pigs. Miyazaki lets his tank fandom loose.