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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #1 Supplier: "A Company Making Everything..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Why ACME is the World's Best mail Order Company”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #15th C. Prose: "Weapons are Bad for Me..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Mythical Weapons I Should Never Possess...”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Only 2 Choices: "Do or Not Do..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “How I Make My Creative Decisions”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #My Top 6: "Holy Crappy Cartoon, Batman!"

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Super Hero Catchphrases”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #2/14/23: "The Most Dangerous Day..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Gift-Giving Faux Pas (Valentine's Day Edition)”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Lesson 3450: "Sharpen Your Pencils!"

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Complete the Cartoons, II: More creative drawing exercises (be imaginative!)”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #6am – 8am: "Childhood Delusions..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Cartoon Lies!! How Saturday Morning Cartoons Deceived Me...”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #78.79 Years: "This Mortal Coil..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Life Between Breaths — a Primer —”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #At Least 195 Degrees...: "Unusual Tastes..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Only in Japan (so far...) Ramen Edition”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #About 3.4 Million in 2021: "SCARY!..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Unforseen Deaths: unexpected things that kill Americans each year...”

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About

As a Freelance (i.e., unemployed) Artist, Neal Yamamoto has spewed forth a wide variety of scribblin's and scrivenin's, including humorous illustrations, gag cartoons and comic/sequential art for over a hundred books, comics, magazines and educational publications nationwide. Mr. Yamamoto has also been caught conducting cartooning and comic book illustration workshops at unsuspecting institutions like CSULA, Pasadena City College, Glendale Adult Education and Santa Monica City College. His fevered meanderings can also be seen in a weekly cartoon called "My Name is Neal, which he has been illegally posting on the Discover Nikkei website for the past couple of years.

As yet, he has not been successfully prosecuted.

Nikkei interests

  • community history
  • family stories
  • festival/matsuri
  • Japanese/Nikkei food
  • Japantowns
  • taiko

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