The Eastern Edge

Hayao Miyazaki's Kaze Tachinu comic, which was originally thought to be a short serial of four or so parts with about 6 pages a pop, has somehow ended up at part 8.
Even Model Graphix, the magazine this is being published in, doesn't know (or just won't tell) how long Kaze Tachinu will continue.

I, for one, am not complaining and hope Miyazaki keeps going until I've got a giant-sized graphic novel worth of pages to eventually extract from the magazines and collect into a homemade volume.

I'm not going to do a full write up on this until it's done, but since this is a historical comic about the Mitsubishi Zero Fighter and its designer, I know it will end eventually.

I'm hoping I have at least a few months worth of chapters to enjoy before it ends and I blog the whole thing, but in the meantime there is nothing stopping me from sharing a little bit of Miyazaki's art.

Here's a little from chapter 8, and two pics from a short accompanying article about Miyazaki out with a bunch of model enthusiasts flying model planes. The plane in the pic at the bottom is a working model of the same one shown in this chapter of the comic (the comic version of which you can see at the bottom left of the 3rd pic below):