Helen McCarthy is the co-author of The Erotic Anime Movie Guide and the exhaustive The Anime Encyclopedia with Jonathan Clements.
11 Facts About Helen McCarthy
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Helen McCarthy contributed to Manga Mania magazine, and after Anime UK closed she edited it from 1997 to 1998.
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Helen McCarthy has written on anime and manga for British magazines and newspapers including the Daily Telegraph, NEO, SFX and ImagineFX.
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Helen McCarthy was able to apply her convention-running knowledge gained in SF and media fandom when Anime UK ran the successful one-day convention AUKcon, which attracted attendees from all over Europe in 1994.
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Helen McCarthy has written numerous articles and essays and is a frequent convention guest, as well as speaking at film festivals and academic gatherings in Europe, America and Japan.
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Helen McCarthy has curated and delivered four successful seasons of lectures and screenings at the Barbican Cinema in London.
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Helen McCarthy has been a guest speaker at the University of Maryland, and at Akita International University.
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Helen McCarthy is a founder member of the Fandom and NeoMedia Studies Association, gave the keynote address at their inaugural conference, and spoke at their first Japanese symposium at Yamanushi Gakuin in 2017.
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Helen McCarthy is interested in the many crossing points and influences between anime, manga and other arts.
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Helen McCarthy has since expanded her needlework activities with workshops for the Japan Foundation and at conventions.
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Helen McCarthy worked with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and his team on TeZuKa at Sadler's Wells in 2011, and on Pluto at the Barbican in 2017 and in European City of Culture Leeuwarden in 2018.