The Max creators lead sequestered lives these days. "Even today, I still use the books for reference." "It was great stuff and established a certain style," said Fujitake. I couldn't draw enough."ĭennis Fujitake, another local cartoonist, remembers Peppo showing the sketches around back then and being mightily impressed. Suddenly, here was guys in cartoons with flat noses and black hair and making like real blalahs. "All we had to look at was mainland cartoons. "A major, major influence on me and everyone I know," Murakami said. Murakami, the Max books were nothing short of revolutionary.
HOW BIG a deal? For local author and cartoonist Jon J. Check these A-G entries with Lighter's RHHDAS A-G-ed.JAMM AQUINO / items available in the "Pidgin 2 Da Max" series. You can probably buy it on Amazon or Bookfinder or Bibliofind, if it's not in a local library. Careful how you use this.ĬHAWAN CUT.Like one upside-down bowl on top yo' head.ĭOO ITASHIMASHITE (don't touch my MUS tache)į.O.B.Fresh Off the Boat.(.) Also J.O.J.: Just Off the Jet.įUFUNA.Samoan or Tongan lady's da kine. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.īOBURA.Japanese person born and raised in Japan who has the nerve to come to Hawaii.īORO-BOROS.The most had-it clothes you own.īUDDAHEAD.Japanese person. It's the only slang book I've come across.īAFE, BAVE.To take one bocha, o'one showah.īANANA.Haolefied Oriental. I found this in a used bookstore near the University of Hawaii. The Bess Press (www.besspress,com), Honolulu In collaboration with Ken Sakata and Pat Sasaki If DARE doesn't have "shave ice," just don't blame me!Ĭonceived, written and illustrated by Douglas Simonson (Peppo) Mariani got his 1955 "haupia" from DARE (just re-checked). I have that copied somewhere in my apartment. It won a cookbook award.She says that "malassada" is in Katherine Bezore's Hawaiian cookbook (1940). This is the best Hawaiian food book I could find. "Shave Ice" and "Malassada" and much more are explained in THE FOOD OF PARADISE (1996) by Rachel Laudan. Next message (by thread): Pidgin To Da Max (1981).
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