New video: NO RELATION:
the art of storytelling
with Alissa Sallah.
(technically, this went live
months ago and I forgot to
send it here. sorry, but enjoy!)
NO RELATION with David Brothers is an excuse to talk about music, movies, life, and whatever else I find interesting. Think of it like a comic convention panel in the form of a video essay. Does that make the comments Q&A?
Either way, this NO RELATION is about storytelling in Moto Hagio’s A Cruel God Reigns, Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, and Akimi Yoshida’s Banana Fish, and the lessons that cartoonist Alissa Sallah has learned from the techniques used in their work.
0:00: Alissa Sallah, Weeaboo, & Bonfire Anthology
6:52: Moto Hagio’s A Cruel God Reigns
18:50: Kentaro Miura’s Berserk
34:23: Akimi Yoshida’s Banana Fish
NO RELATION:
–Sandman Sims & The Street Sweeper (“Little Foot, Big Foot” by Childish Gambino) featuring Jamila Rowser
–Heroes Eventually Die (a close look at Armored Core 6)
Alissa’s latest work is Sun Tribe: Waffle Shack Index, a one-shot released on Viz Media’s VizManga app and viz.com. Perfect Crime Party (an anthology story with me!) funded on BackerKit and will be available this spring/summer. The Viscere folk horror anthology funded back in December and will be on the way shortly.
NO RELATION with David Brothers
The Art of Storytelling
featuring Alissa Sallah
Works:
Sun Tribe: Waffle Shack Index (VizMedia),
Perfect Crime Party (Iron Circus Comics),
Weeaboo (Oni Press)
Discussed:
Moto Hagio’s A Cruel God Reigns, volume 2
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk, volume 9
Akimi Yoshida’s Banana Fish, volume 8
Mentioned, in order:
Bonfire Anthology
Floating World Comics
The Comics Journal 269
Moto Hagio’s Marginal, A Drunken Dream, Heart of Thomas, The Poe Clan, Otherworld Barbara
George Morikawa’s Hajime no Ippo
Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto
Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal
Usamaru Furuya’s No Longer Human
Mandy (2018)
Roger Ebert x Hayao Miyazaki, RogerEbert.com
Emma Riós’s Anzuelo
Kazune Kawahara & Aruko’s My Love Story
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc (2012)
Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics
Nier: Automata (2023)
Jerry Maguire (1996)
Berserk (1997)
Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Part 2: Battle Tendency
W. David Marx’s Ametora
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Banana Fish (2018)
The Weekend’s “Out of Time”