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It's Comiket 79. Fernando Ramos has a photo gallery of the cosplayers at his site Mr. Outside Works.
In what is turning into a monthly ritual, I spent part of today searching the interweebs for the latest chapter of Genshiken. It's not up yet, but the hunt did scare up a trove of doujinshi and this collection of character portraits by Gofu. I have so much to learn. D
Carl, not Oswald. Hockey's oldest invitational tournament is back for another year with a new trophy and an expanded format. This year for the first time there are six teams: host HC Davos, Team Canada, Sparta Prague, Spartak Moscow, SKA St. Petersburg, and first-timers HC Servette Geneva. Since 1923, Davos have won the tournament fourteen times, though with a lengthy drought between 1958 and 2000; Team Canada have won eleven times, Spartak Moscow five times, SKA three times and Sparta Prague twice. Team Canada as usual are made up of Canadians playing in Germany and Switzerland. Mark Messier is coaching, and the team are wearing the traditional black uniform. Wait, what? Black? Serge Aubin is the Canadian captain. Spartak Moscow have Dominic Hasek in goal. SKA's roster includes former NHLers Maxim Afinogenov, Sergei Brylin and our old buddy Alexei Yashin. Geneva (aka Genf) have an ex-Senator too in Brian Pothier, and are coached by Chris McSorley. [Dec. 31: SKA beat Canada 4 - 3 in the final.]
Kit Williams, the painter/jeweler behind the bestselling books Masquerade and The Bee On the Comb, who seems to me (D) to be firmly in the tradition of Victorian fairy painters, has been out of the public eye since the 1980s, but he has been busy, as this documentary shows. Here he is reunited with his famous Golden Hare:
If you can get near the Japan Society building, Manhattan, go see this exhibition of works by Hakuin Ekaku for me. D
I'm just sayin'.