Roger Dahl's Comic Japan : best of Zero Gravity cartoons from the Japan Times.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahl, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.

Americans.

Japan--Description and travel--Comic books, strips, etc.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Tuttle Publishing, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Roger Dahl's Zero Gravity cartoon strip has been a popular feature of Japan's leading English-language daily newspaper, The Japan Times, since 1991. Now, for the first time, Roger Dahl's Comic Japan brings together the best of Zero Gravity in book form. Offering a Western artist's take on Japan, the strip stars Larry and Lily, a young American couple working as English teachers in Tokyo. Larry and Lily never manage to fully integrate into Japanese society, and Zero Gravity takes a whimsical approach to the meeting of cultures as well as the quirky dynamics of changing relationships between gen

Contents:

Cover; Dedication; Contents; My Expat Escapades in Tokyo; PART 1 Surviving; PART 2 Relationships; PART 3 Work; PART 4 Language; PART 5 Seasons; PART 6 Culture; PART 7 Food, Shopping, and Travel; PART 8 Junko; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4629-1501-9