Friday, December 17, 2010
Gothic Monsters from Tatsuya Morino
Artist Tatsuya Morino puts a unique twist on the great monsters of Gothic literature in a series of illustrations featured in the book Kaibutsu Gensō Gashū. You can definitely see similarities to great (and strange) American comics artists like Basil Wolverton and many of the underground artists from the 60's. See all the images here at Pink Tentacle.
Labels:
Gothic,
H.G. Wells,
Lovecraft,
Manga,
Pink Tentacle,
Poe,
Tatsuya Morino
JAPANESE ARTISTS FACING INDIFFERENCE AT HOME
From the Wall Street Journal:
Last year, leading Japanese auctioneer Shinwa Art Auction Co. decided to sell contemporary art, so it set up shop—in Hong Kong. With demand very weak in Japan, Shinwa's Yoichiro Kurata says, "It's really hard for young Japanese artists to survive."
Read the full article
Last year, leading Japanese auctioneer Shinwa Art Auction Co. decided to sell contemporary art, so it set up shop—in Hong Kong. With demand very weak in Japan, Shinwa's Yoichiro Kurata says, "It's really hard for young Japanese artists to survive."
Read the full article
Thursday, December 16, 2010
"Extreme Sex" Manga Under Scrutiny in Tokyo
From The Sydney Morning Herald
TOKYO - Japan's capital city is to restrict the sale of manga comics and anime films with extreme depictions of rape, incest and other sex crimes, a plan that has brought cries of censorship.
The bill before the Tokyo assembly would require publishers and shops to sell only to readers aged over 18 any material that depicts "virtual sex crimes" if the images are "unjustifiably glorified and exaggerated".
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Note that the comics are not being "banned" but merely subjected to age restrictions.
TOKYO - Japan's capital city is to restrict the sale of manga comics and anime films with extreme depictions of rape, incest and other sex crimes, a plan that has brought cries of censorship.
The bill before the Tokyo assembly would require publishers and shops to sell only to readers aged over 18 any material that depicts "virtual sex crimes" if the images are "unjustifiably glorified and exaggerated".
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Note that the comics are not being "banned" but merely subjected to age restrictions.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
JUNOT & JAIME: Together at last
Friday, February 26, 2010
Mmmm...Olivia
Olivia Munn may be the best combination of incredibly sexy and incredibly funny to occur in a single bipedal humanoid in recent memory...but I think she could use a better book design (Chipp Kidd wasn't available?). Love the title, though.
Labels:
AOTS,
Geek,
Olivia Munn,
OMFG,
Wonder Woman. Sucking It
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
GIANT ROBOT Needs Some Cash Money!
This really surprised me. It's pretty obvious that print newspapers and magazines are on a steady decline to obsolescence, and yet I LOVE them so much...and Giant Robot is one of the best and most diverse mags in print. These guys (Eric & Martin) own retail stores, and even a vegan restaurant, so I assumed the magazine was on very solid ground. But apparently not.
Having briefly published a magazine myself I know how excruciatingly hard it is to get advertising; how distribution and rising shipping costs can be utterly dispiriting; and how everything in print is losing ground to the immediacy (and illiteracy) of the web. So anyway, watch the video and throw a few bucks to GR, if only to keep them around for your (and my) own edification.
Having briefly published a magazine myself I know how excruciatingly hard it is to get advertising; how distribution and rising shipping costs can be utterly dispiriting; and how everything in print is losing ground to the immediacy (and illiteracy) of the web. So anyway, watch the video and throw a few bucks to GR, if only to keep them around for your (and my) own edification.
Labels:
Asian Pop Culture,
Eric Nakamura,
Giant Robot,
magazines,
Martin Wong,
print
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Ink Mountain
I don't surf around the web to keep up with all the amazing art and illustration stuff out there now but here's a most excellent comics & art blog by people I don't know. Take it from Kanye~
INK MOUNTAIN
INK MOUNTAIN
THE LIST OF DELICIOUS THINGS
This TOMER HANUKA cover for IDN magazine's special "Colour Issue",
originally done as a book illustration for Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Boudoir. Of course Tomer and brother Asaf did their first ever print interviews way back in TCI #5 Vol. ; and Tomer was so generous that he offered to do an original cover as well.
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