{"id":2573,"date":"2026-04-03T19:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:55:28","slug":"interview-the-graphic-novelists-next-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/?p=2573","title":{"rendered":"Interview: The Graphic Novelists Next Door"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-03-164203.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2574\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In February, I was interviewed by local art journalist Katie Clary about my cross-cultural interest and history with graphic novels and manga between the United States and Japan for the <em>Open Studio<\/em> Newsletter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually have opportunities to talk about my former experiences as an English-Japanese translator and a teen goodwill ambassadorship in Japan, and how it shapes my love of comics. In the article, I talk about how I owe my love of comics to two people, my friend Yoshiko and Keiko, both of whom shared shojo manga with me at a time dominated by bulky DC and Marvel superheroes. It changed my impression of the storytelling capabilities of sequential art at a young age, and for that, I am very grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u826f\u5b50\u3055\u3093\u3001\u6075\u5b50\u3055\u3093\u3001\u5c11\u5973\u6f2b\u753b\u3092\u7d39\u4ecb\u3057\u3066\u304f\u308c\u3066\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/openstudio.beehiiv.com\/p\/open-studio-newsletter-43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, I was interviewed by local art journalist Katie Clary about my cross-cultural interest and history with graphic novels and manga between the United States and Japan for the Open Studio Newsletter. I don&#8217;t usually have opportunities to talk[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/?p=2573\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katklockow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}