New Yorker on Miyazaki

An anonymous reader writes "The New Yorker issue of 17 January has an in-depth article on Hayao Miyazaki. It gives a nice look at the arc of his work, short interviews with him, and more extended interviews with his co-workers. Here is an interview with the article's author."

Comments

Re:Why don't you just say he's an animation artist

[philistine]

I'm astounded that you dont know who he is,
your really out of your depth around here .

Re:Why don't you just say he's an animation artist

[Anonymous Coward]

Ignore the other craphead ACs who replied to your post. You are abosolutely correct in admonishing Mikey for not identifying this guy's profession. I have never heard of him (her)?, either. Intelligent people are not really all that interested in anime, which, if you look at it objectively, is nothing more than a crudely-drawn slide show. The problem is that younger people were raised on this crap (e.g., Saturday morning shows like Dragonball Z, etc.), and think that it is actually art. (This is similar to many people of my generation, who feel similarly about the old Warner Brothers and Hanna Barberra cartoons (especially compared to newer dreck such as Transformers, etc.).)

This site is "News for nerds". Almost all nerds will know who Linus is, but only a small, anime-loving subset will know who Myasaki is. The rest of us never heard of him/her. That is why Mikey should have indicated who Myasaki is.