Jonathan Clements (born July 9, 1971) is a British author and scriptwriter. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. His non-fiction works include biographies of Confucius, Koxinga and Qin Shihuangdi (the First Emperor of China), as well as monthly opinion columns for NEO magazine. Confucius ( lit " Master Kung " September 28, 551 BC - 479 BC) was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher Koxinga ( Pe̍h-oē-jī: Kok-sèng-iâ/Kok-sìⁿ-iâ Lord with the Imperial Surname) is the traditional Western spelling of the popular appellation of Qin Shi Huang ( (259 BC – September 10 210 BC personal name Yíng Zhèng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BCE to 221 BCE (during the NEO is a 100-page monthly Magazine published in the UK and Ireland by Uncooked Media that focuses on various aspects of Asian entertainment such He is also the co-author of encyclopedias of anime and Japanese television dramas. (anime in Japanese, also called dorama (ドラマ are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily
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Early career
Clements speaks both Chinese and Japanese, and many of his works relate to East Asia. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities He wrote his 1995 Master's degree at the University of Stirling on manga and anime exports, predicting the rise of several trends in the international industry including back-to-front printing, direct American investment in anime, and the proliferation of attempts to substitute non-Japanese products. The University of Stirling founded in 1967 in Stirling, Scotland. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly (anime in Japanese, Subsequently he translated over 70 anime and manga works for British distributors, and worked as a voice director and actor.
He served two years at Titan Books in London as the editor of Manga Max magazine, an experience he would later fictionalise as the Judge Dredd adventure Trapped on Titan. Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company established in 1981 For the 1995 film see Judge Dredd (film. For the Reggae / Ska performer see Judge Dread. In 2000, he received the Japan Festival Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Understanding of Japanese Culture, specifically for his work on Manga Max magazine.
Script work
He left to work as a scriptwriter on an abortive Astro Boy movie project, before writing several episodes of Halcyon Sun for Kuju Entertainment, and the Strontium Dog series, starring Simon Pegg, and the Doctor Who spin-off Sympathy for the Devil, starring David Warner and David Tennant, both for Big Finish productions. is a Japanese Manga series and Television program first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966 Strontium Dog is a long-running Comics series featuring in the British Science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an award-winning English Actor, Comedian, Writer Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Sympathy for the Devil is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series David Warner (born July 29, 1941) is an Emmy Award-winning English Actor who is known for playing sinister or evil characters David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971 is a Scottish Actor. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to Compact disc and He also wrote Space 1889: Red Devils, a one-hour audio drama for Noise Monster Productions, and served as a writer or translator on TV programs, including Japanorama (BBC Three), Saiko Exciting (Sci-Fi Channel) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (BBC Two). Space 1889 is a Role-playing game of Victorian-era space-faringcreated by Frank Chadwick and originally published by Game Designers' BBC Three is a television channel from the BBC broadcasting via Digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms See Sci Fi Channel for a list of other Sci Fi channels SCI FI Channel (also SCI FI UK, or simply SCI FI) is a
Halcyon Sun episodes
- "No Bugles, No Drums" (2000)
- "Edge of Darkness" (2000)
- "Empire of the Mind" (2001)
- "The Long Night" (2001)
- "Doomed Battalions" (2001)
- "Terminal Beach" (2001)
Strontium Dog
- Down to Earth (2002)
- Fire From Heaven (2003)
Judge Dredd
- Trapped on Titan (2002)
- 99 Code Red (2003)
- Pre-Emptive Revenge (2004)
- Solo (2005)
Doctor Who
- Immortal Beloved (2007)
- Brave New Town (2008)
Other scripts
- Doctor Who Unbound: Sympathy for the Devil (2003)
- UNIT: Snake Head (2005)
- Space 1889: Red Devils (2005)
His most famous work, Schoolgirl Milky Crisis, does not actually exist: it is a name for a fictional TV series, which Clements often used in his Newtype USA columns in order to avoid breaking various non-disclosure agreements regarding serials that he has worked on as a writer, director or translator. UNIT Snake Head is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor is a popular monthly Magazine publication originating from Japan, covering Anime and Manga (and to a lesser extent Tokusatsu, Japanese A non-disclosure agreement (NDA also known as a confidentiality agreement, confidential disclosure agreement (CDA proprietary information agreement
Books
Clements is a prolific author, whose many non-fiction publications, on subjects ranging from the history of the Vikings to the life of Chairman Mao, serve as research for his fiction. A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas Mao Zedong ( 26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese Military and political leader who led His books have been translated into a dozen languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Korean. His major works include:
- The Moon in the Pines (2000, reprinted in paperback as Zen Haiku, 2007)
- The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (1st ed. (anime in Japanese, 2001, 2nd ed. 2006, with Helen McCarthy)
- The Dorama Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese TV Drama Since 1953 (2003, with Motoko Tamamuro)
- The Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty (2004)
- Confucius: A Biography (2004)
- A Brief History of the Vikings (2005)
- Coxinga: And the Fall of the Ming Dynasty (2005, paperback edition of Pirate King)
- The First Emperor of China (2006)
- Mao (2006)
- Wu (2007)
- Marco Polo (2007)
- Beijing: The Biography of a City (2008)
External links
- Muramasa Industries (The official web site of Jonathan Clements)
- 2000 AD profile
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