Welcome to the Mikka Bouzu Web Cartoon. I’m into the fifth year of cartoons now and must thank all those of you who have written nice things and linked to this site from your own. I would like to especially thank Dave Whiteland (Grand Master of Fudebakudo), for all his advice and friendship.
If you’re new to the site, whether you’re a martial artist or not, I hope you will enjoy it and tell others to navigate to it at some time. I’ve been a freelance cartoonist for years, freelance of course meaning ‘doesn’t earn any money so I have to do a proper job’. So the rest of the time have to teach Psychology.
I’ve been practicing martial arts on and off since I was 11 years old, but for the last 18-ish years I’ve been studying Aikido with my brilliant and long suffering sensei, Simon Ford-Powell (thinking about it I’m sure I do most of the suffering). A big thanks must go to him and everyone else at the Leicester Aikidokan and Kanokwai Jiu-Jitsu for a lot of the inspiration behind these cartoons.
A big thank you to Steven and Shoko Reilly for their input. Steven for his training and Knowledge and Shoko for help with the Japanese (distinctly the less painful of the contributions). Thanks also to Tim Corrigan for all the the tech guidance. Similarly, Steve Allen, Mike Grant and Damien Tomkiewicz for all the tech help and amusement at my incompetence. Actually I think that’s just Mike. A special thanks to Mark Shepherd, my linguistic conscience (any mistakes found on the website are because I haven’t yet decoded his proof reading koans). Mark, like Dave, is a true polymath. A one time training partner, he still causes me pain even though he now lives in Poland.
Lastly thanks to my wife for her years of encouragement to actually get around to doing something like this.
Please don’t copy these cartoons without asking first. If you do I’ll have to send the ninja round.