Anime Encyclopedia Author Wins IMAF Achievement Award
Helen McCarthy Received the 2006 IMAF Award for Outstanding Contribution to Anime and Manga
[USPRwire, Thu Dec 21 2006] Stone Bridge Press is pleased to announce that Helen McCarthy, co-author of the newly released guidebook The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised and Expanded Edition, was recently awarded the International Manga and Anime Festival's 2006 award for Outstanding Contribution to Anime and Manga. She received this lifetime achievement award on Friday, November 10th 2006 at County Hall, Westminster, London. The distinguished panel of judges included Paul Gravett (Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics) and Andrew Prentice, director of Trocadero Studio.
McCarthy, a veteran of the international anime industry, is the former editor of Anime UK and Manga Mania magazines and the author of several books, including The Anime Movie Guide and Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation. She wrote the Anime Encyclopedia with Jonathan Clements, former editor of Manga Max magazine and translator of dozens of anime, including Samurai Gold, Slow Step, and Plastic Little. Both authors have been winners of the Japan Festival Award for outstanding contributions to the understanding of Japanese culture. Since the original Anime Encyclopedia’s release by Stone Bridge Press in 2001, the authors have spent innumerable hours updating and expanding the definitive encyclopedia. The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised and Expanded Edition, released in November 2006, includes over 3,000 entries exploring Japanese animation since 1917.
The International Manga & Anime Festival (IMAF) was founded in 2004 in order to meet the growing demand for Manga & Anime related activities in the UK. The festival is free to the public. In 2006 a cash prize fund of $75,000 was on offer.
ABOUT STONE BRIDGE PRESS: Stone Bridge Press is an English-language publisher specializing in books about Japan and Asia. Founded in 1989 by publisher and editor-in-chief Peter Goodman, the company has over 85 titles in print and has received numerous awards for publishing excellence, including two Benjamin Franklin Awards. Among its authors are Donald Richie (The Inland Sea, The Japan Journals) and Leonard Koren (Wabi-Sabi). Stone Bridge's books about anime, manga, and film have established the press as a leading source of information about Japanese popular culture.
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