By Your Side: The First Hundred Years of Yuri Anime and Manga On Sale June 1, 2022
The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Anime and Comics
Two decades in the making, By Your Side: The First Hundred Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is a collection of essays, scholarly and approachable, by the Western Hemisphere's authority on the subject, Erica Friedman.
James Welker, Professor of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies at Kanagawa University calls this “The first in-depth study of Yuri in English.”
Factual, funny and highly entertaining, By Your Side is a series of ground-breaking interlocking essays, articles and lectures on Yuri anime and manga. Meant to be approached as informal discussion in the manner of convivial conversation over multiple dinners, or panels at an anime convention, through these essays, readers will become familiar with the key creators, tropes, concepts, symbols and titles of the first 100 years of the Yuri genre.
By Your Side will be available from Journey Press on June 1, 2022.
About Erica Friedman
Erica holds a Masters Degree in Library Science and a B.A. in Comparative Literature, and is a full-time researcher for a Fortune 100 company. She has lectured at dozens of conventions and presented at film festivals, notably the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has participated in an academic lecture series at MIT, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Harvard University, Kanagawa University, and others.
She has edited manga for JManga, Seven Seas and Udon Entertainment, most recently Riyoko Ikeda's epic historical classic, The Rose of Versailles.
Erica has written about Yuri for Japanese literary journal Eureka, Animerica Magazine, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Dark Horse, and contributed to Forbes, Slate, Huffington Post, Hooded Utilitarian, Anime News Network, Mangasplaining Extra and The Mary Sue online. The founder of Yuricon, she has written news and event reports, interviews Yuri creators and reviews Yuri anime, manga and related media on her blog Okazu since 2002.
About Journey Press
Founded by Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus, Journey Press, is an independent publisher focused on bringing unusual and diverse science fiction and fantasy to the forefront of the publishing landscape. We are dedicated not only to modern science fiction, but also to elevating classics that have fallen by the wayside. You'll find us supporting the women and queer people who have been erased from the history books and reprinting forgotten known novels in addition to publishing new novels by creators of all types.
Two decades in the making, By Your Side: The First Hundred Years of Yuri Anime and Manga is a collection of essays, scholarly and approachable, by the Western Hemisphere's authority on the subject, Erica Friedman.
James Welker, Professor of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies at Kanagawa University calls this “The first in-depth study of Yuri in English.”
Factual, funny and highly entertaining, By Your Side is a series of ground-breaking interlocking essays, articles and lectures on Yuri anime and manga. Meant to be approached as informal discussion in the manner of convivial conversation over multiple dinners, or panels at an anime convention, through these essays, readers will become familiar with the key creators, tropes, concepts, symbols and titles of the first 100 years of the Yuri genre.
By Your Side will be available from Journey Press on June 1, 2022.
About Erica Friedman
Erica holds a Masters Degree in Library Science and a B.A. in Comparative Literature, and is a full-time researcher for a Fortune 100 company. She has lectured at dozens of conventions and presented at film festivals, notably the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. She has participated in an academic lecture series at MIT, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Harvard University, Kanagawa University, and others.
She has edited manga for JManga, Seven Seas and Udon Entertainment, most recently Riyoko Ikeda's epic historical classic, The Rose of Versailles.
Erica has written about Yuri for Japanese literary journal Eureka, Animerica Magazine, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Dark Horse, and contributed to Forbes, Slate, Huffington Post, Hooded Utilitarian, Anime News Network, Mangasplaining Extra and The Mary Sue online. The founder of Yuricon, she has written news and event reports, interviews Yuri creators and reviews Yuri anime, manga and related media on her blog Okazu since 2002.
About Journey Press
Founded by Hugo Award Finalist Gideon Marcus, Journey Press, is an independent publisher focused on bringing unusual and diverse science fiction and fantasy to the forefront of the publishing landscape. We are dedicated not only to modern science fiction, but also to elevating classics that have fallen by the wayside. You'll find us supporting the women and queer people who have been erased from the history books and reprinting forgotten known novels in addition to publishing new novels by creators of all types.
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