Autumn has come! My Leaves of trees in my neighborhood started changing colors. Yesterday it was raining crazy… so most of leaves are gone now>_<
This weekend Kuririn and I are planning going to Central Park. I hope we’re not too late to check out beautiful trees!!!!
Brooklyn Botanic Garden always holds amazing events!!!
Today I was invited to do book signing and demonstration at their Halloween party Ghouls & Gourds! Most of them were too young for my books. But they seemed to enjoy my demonstration a lot!
I was just happy to be outside and have a great time with a lot of families, teens and adults!
They’re amazing!!! It reminds me of my puppeteer days! I used to walk on stilts and act. But I wasn’t good at dancing with it…
I showed up as a Panda Bear like last year. Some of kids remembered me! Yay—
I drew some Halloween-theme-illustration. I had only 15 minutes to do!
A lot of adults started gathering the tents. That was great!
And of course kids wanted to wear my Panda head. I let them wear during my demonstration. They’re sooooooo cuuuuuuuuuute!!! Aghhh.. too cute..
This is my favorite outside event. I could meet a lot of picture book authors who I barely have a chance to talk^_^
Okay… so now I should go back to work. Soon I’ll show some of sample pages from my new comic “Made in Japan volw1″!!
It was great to hang out with Kuririn’s family in NYC! Jimbo visited from Germany and his parents visited from Wisco.
Kuririn’s dad and Jimbo didn’t wear coats at all!!!!! Wisco-guys are strong! What about kuririn?
He grew up there too…
We’re checking “European Painting” area. I studied Art History when I was an exchange student in MO. But I lost the knowledge… Aghh.. If you want to know more about Art History, ask Jimbo! He knows a lot!
We’re trying to make his face. At the time a gentleman was watching us and said that Kurirn made a better face. Man!
Yesterday Kuririn and I were playing a song from Flaming Lips for Jimbo and Maria.
But I totally forgot cords… Kuririn gave me a guitar lesson for a long time. I’m such a bad student.
Well at least we look cool here.
Last week Kuririn and I took his family to Statue of Liberty. His parents are back’n Wisco! and his brother Jimbo is on a plane to Germany now.
In 1997 I visited NYC by myself and I went there too. On the way to the island, I took a photo of myself.
This is me in 1997
This is me in 2009(now!)
Hmm… I look younger now?!
Last night we went to Karaoke in Manhattan. I haven’t been there since my Japan trip!
This Karaoke Bar/booth has Japanese songs besides English. So Maria and I were rocking out in Japanese!
I think I was signing a really old Japanese pop song! CAT’s EYE!
While Jimbo was singing WEEZER, I was being his drum!
I look crazy—-…. I was being a backup singer for my baby Kuririn!
Kuririn’s brother Jimbo is visiting NYC from Germany.
We took him to some NY spots! And we visited my favorite toy shop FAO Shwaltz!
Me, Jimbo and a cool Guard! yay^_^
Kyaaaaaaa >_<
Kuririn looks like one of these lego toys…
Me and Jimbo tried to play this big keyboad!! Which showed up in a movie “BIG”
And Oh my God.. I can’t explain how much I’m moved to play this muppet!!!! I asked Kuririn this for my Christmas Present.
I think I’ll go back to FAO Shwaltz just to play with him again…
Japan Society interviewed me at NY Anime Festival last month.
Yay–
I’m invited to this big book festival on this Sunday at Columbia University NY!
The Great Children’s Read is a free big festival by NY Times and Target. I’m going to demonstrate and do book signing/merchandise-selling from 11am to 1pm at NY Comicon Booth.
Hope a lot of families, kids, lovers, bikers, and and.. will visit us!
