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Savings Account: Johnny Bunko
Manga Career Guide
This week and next (and maybe beyond), it's jobs and career advice, starting with some info about a terrific new book.
Daniel Pink, a fantastic writer and visionary, is the author of two great books; Free Agent Nation, published in 2002, about the rise of the independent worker, and A Whole New Mind from 2005, about the future of creativity and how integrating our creative and pragmatic minds gives us, well, a whole new mind.
His new book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need is something else entirely. It's manga, the Japanese form of graphic storytelling, like a comic book or graphic novel. Actually, it's a westernized version of manga, read right to left (like Hebrew) and not the other way around, as in English, but the artist, Rob Ten Pas, incorporates most of the medium's conventions, so unless you're a nit-picker or mega-fanboy, manga it is! (A formal review of it, along with a couple of more traditional offerings, is here.)
Anyway, there's a video promo for the book here (and a Q&A session here), plus a website with book excerpts and more. In fact, before very long, the whole thing will be on the site, since he's posting a couple of pages every few days. Or you can get a big chunk (23 pages) in a pdf file by clicking here.
Daniel Pink, a fantastic writer and visionary, is the author of two great books; Free Agent Nation, published in 2002, about the rise of the independent worker, and A Whole New Mind from 2005, about the future of creativity and how integrating our creative and pragmatic minds gives us, well, a whole new mind.
His new book, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need is something else entirely. It's manga, the Japanese form of graphic storytelling, like a comic book or graphic novel. Actually, it's a westernized version of manga, read right to left (like Hebrew) and not the other way around, as in English, but the artist, Rob Ten Pas, incorporates most of the medium's conventions, so unless you're a nit-picker or mega-fanboy, manga it is! (A formal review of it, along with a couple of more traditional offerings, is here.)
Anyway, there's a video promo for the book here (and a Q&A session here), plus a website with book excerpts and more. In fact, before very long, the whole thing will be on the site, since he's posting a couple of pages every few days. Or you can get a big chunk (23 pages) in a pdf file by clicking here.
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