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My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #But 100% Confident: "Ignorance is Bliss..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “’Murican Exceptionalism! Beliefs and statistics collected from across these United States...”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #You Really Only Need 2: "Just Because..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “5 Excuses for Every Bad Decision (‘How to answer the critics’)”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #Over 500 Strips so Far: "Since 2007..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Origin Story ‘Why I became a cartoonist...’”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #90° and Above: "I Prefer Cooler Climes..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “The Heat Index - My personal guide to how hot Los Angeles has been this summer”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #For the 2028 Games: “Going for the Gold...”

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Olympic Events I’d Really Like to See.”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #3 Billion Made Yearly: "Egg Fried Rice, Please..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “If Artificial Intelligence Wrote Fortune Cookies”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #110 Billion Humans Alone: "Spectres..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Questions, I have Questions (Ghost Edition)”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #First Activated in 1958: "True A.I...."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “Intellectual Fantasy (An informal examination of my intelligence level...)”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #24 Little Hours: "Intention > Actualization..."

Neal Yamamoto

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “What I INTEND to do each day”

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #69-66 Million Years Ago: "A Terror of T-Rexes..."

Neal Yamamoto

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

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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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