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Thanks to Lindsay Tsuji for this write-up and thanks to Nadine Bukhman for the photos.<\/em><\/p>\n A chilly Toronto\u2019s eve didn\u2019t stop friends and fans of one artistically inclined JET alum from dropping by the Goodfellas Gallery<\/strong>\u00a0in Toronto to celebrate the launch of his new book\u00a0Life After the B.O.E.<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0JETAA Toronto\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0David Namisato<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(Aomori<\/a>-ken CIR, 2002-04)<\/strong>\u00a0was the cause of some serious hurrah on February 8.<\/p>\n Most JETs are no stranger to David\u2019s comics. Started back in 2005, they chronicle the ins and outs of what life is like as a foreigner on the JET Programme. The enkais<\/em>, the onsens<\/em>, the team teaching…it\u2019s all in there.<\/p>\n David Namisato is interviewed by Wai Wai Wide (OMNI).<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n What started as a small part of the JETAA Toronto Newsletter later became the more recent editions that continue to appear on JET websites as well as ESL teaching websites around the world.<\/p>\n Namisato kicked off the evening by offering a copy of his book to the Japan Foundation<\/strong> director Takashi Ishida<\/strong> and head librarian Mariko Liliefeldt<\/strong>.\u00a0Life After the B.O.E.<\/em>\u00a0is due to be catalogued for the Japan Foundation library. James Heron<\/strong> from the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre<\/a><\/strong> has offered to carry copies of the book at the JCCC’s cultural gift shop.<\/p>\n A big thanks goes out to Hitoshi Murakami<\/strong> and the folks at the Goodfellas Gallery for helping out with the event.<\/p>\n Didn’t make it to the event? You can still buy a copy of the book! Click\u00a0here for amazon<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0here for createspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n To learn more about David Namisato, you can read this JETAA Toronto interview with him<\/a> as well as this JQ Magazine book review<\/a> of <\/em>Life After the B.O.E.\u00a0by JET alum Sharona Mosokowitz.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" **************** Thanks to Lindsay Tsuji for this write-up and thanks to Nadine Bukhman for the photos. A chilly Toronto\u2019s eve didn\u2019t stop friends and fans of one artistically inclined JET alum from dropping by the Goodfellas Gallery\u00a0in Toronto to celebrate the launch of his new book\u00a0Life After the B.O.E.\u00a0JETAA Toronto\u2019s\u00a0David Namisato\u00a0(Aomori-ken CIR, 2002-04)\u00a0was the cause […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,12,53,304,282,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cartoonillustration","category-events","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"Davids_launch_2\"](\"http:\/\/www.jetaatoronto.com\/images\/stories\/Davids_launch_2.jpg\")
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