GENGA! This Katsuhiro Otomo Monograph COMPLETELY Revolutionizes the Artist Edition Format!
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- Опубліковано 2 січ 2023
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"Highway Star" and "Fireball" are both Deep Purple songs.
The copy I have came with a booklet of translations of all the interviews and conversations, I can scan them and send them over if you like
Hey, I'd be keen if you can send the scans of the translations as well! Got the book in Japan, but didn't come with it.
Same as mine
Can you comment some? :0
My copy of this book actually comes with an extra pamphlet with all the translations for the text. That might have been done for overseas distribution since i got my copy from the German version of Amazon back in the day.
They did that with the Amazon english Genga I think. I think I lost the interviews. Or it could have been Kaba 2. All I remember is he was interviewed by some manga artist that only makes short works. Otomo was a big fan of hers and she was a big fan of him. It was pretty interesting them airing their frustration that short, limited stories are a hard sell to editors in Japan unless you are established and even then its tough.
@@johnhunt6555 That sounds like the last interview in this book with Fumiko Takano. I don't have either of the Kaba books sadly, I always wondered how much overlap there is between those and Genga (Ed mentions some pieces as also being in one of the Kaba books)
Can you share it?
The two faces at 7:24 --the dude with the big sunglasses on--are portraits of Miles Davis!
Yep. He is also at the 14 minute mark
Good catch. Miles’s been especially popular in Japan during the 80s and spent some time over there.
The images Ed wasn't sure they were from at 35:50 are production paintings for the anime movie Harmageddon aka Genma Taisen. Otomo did the character designs and concept art for it.
You guys are spot on with the 2005 bicycle stuff. It was for a magazine where they hired him and Katsuya Terada to write and illustrate their coverage of a bike race in Italy. Terada and Otomo have a bicycling club with some other artists. They released the whole thing plus some other stuff like personal journal/sketchbook stuff as a two book set called Viva Il Ciclissimo. It's been out for over a decade but very affordable still online.
Yeah, it was for the 2008 Giro d'Italia.
Super collaboration from two of my favourite artists.
I got a copy when I went to Japan in 2009. It came packed with a tote bag!
@@RailroadJerk Same, it came with a cool tote bag but I gave it away to my sister. Really liked that design on it lol
I have to keep watching this in short implements because I keep having to pause the video and pour over the artwork. It's cats like Otomo who I genuinely wonder "Were you just BORN with a pencil attached to your hand?" Because the dudes level is just insane.
Steve!
@@Untitled_Coffee_Art Zee!!! HA! Awesome. Hope you're doin good Zee!
What an gorgeous volume, great vid. The Otomo Complete Works edition of Domu (vol.8) prints those bloody corridor scenes with the red colour.
Man, this is one of my most treasured books! Grabbed a copy in 2019 when I was in Japan. Aki kindly pointed it out to me and I snatched it up with a quickness before any of the other artists we were with could get their grubby hands on it! Score!
It's a beautiful book. I went to the exhibition at the Nezu Art Museum. There are extras too like the exhibition bag, flyer, postcards, etc. I still have a bag from the show. I met him there...which is a long story not for here, but was amazing.
Jeez! I can't have this video playing while I'm drawing!
... and I can't look away either. Man, this is masterful!
Great book, got it on a discount from the Seattle Kinokuniya a few years ago. It's amazing, but also reminds me of how little of Otomo's comics have been released in English outside of Domu and Akira.
Highway Star and Fireball could also refer to Deep Purple, as both are song titles from the band... They were very current in the mid 70s, and pretty popular in Japan at the time...
Otomo has admitted to being a big fan of them at the time
Y'all are killin' it with this Otomo stuff! Thank you!
Thanks for the shout out Ed! 銃音/A Gun Report is very hard to find. I spend a lot of time dogging in shops but have never seen it in the wild. The Complete edition was supposed to be released in Nov/Dec, but as we all know it's been delayed to get #23 Akira out the way Otomo wanted it. I can't wait for it though. His first tankobon is gonna be a goldmine of reflection on his art. :)
Otomo is very similar to Kurosawa here in japan, the nerds like me love them but the general public don’t really know or appreciate them. Ty for showing the greatness of this amazing artist, forever studying him.
Thanks, guys, for another look at Otomo's work. What huge range of styles he has! Simply outstanding!
i wonder if Tsai Ming-Liang reads Otomo, they both love watermelons
Haha!
Exact same thought came to me.
When you got to the different paper the paintings at the start of that were from Harmageddon an anime film he did design for which was released in 1983.
I've been waiting a lot for this video, somehow nobody on internet properly shared pictures and thought about this book.
Defenitely gonna try to get it, from Amazon Japan maybe, and I hope it being reprinted via the Complete edition this year.
I see a Milton Glaser influence in the colour work at 36:40.
Such an incredible book! I managed to find one last year at used book store.
Side Note- at the 24:54 minute mark the image on the right of the man on the bed is a study of an Andrew Wyeth piece of art.
Wasn't Satoshi Kon an assistant of Otomo? Kon's art is heavily influenced by Otomo.
I need this ❤
If you want to read it, how about Google Glass for translation?
All bow down.
Fuckin' rad.
32:02 I've been trying to figure out if Jim and Ed are talking about screen printing? Or is it colored screen tones? Trying to get the same finish for my own art.
colored screen tones
👀
It's funny what you said the quality of the artwork being there but something still being boring; I've often noticed the reverse about many comics from my childhood (Silver Age/Bronze Age) and before (Golden Age and early Silver). There were a lot of 60's Charlton and even many of DC's Golden Age JSA stories that the art is objectively "bad" or "lazy" even for their times that were some of the most exiting issues I ever read while others from the same eras and "modern" that even though my brain tells me is clearly high quality and skilled, just never drew me in. Even when the plots and writing were no better or worse than one another. Some magic ingredient is just missing. But man oh man when it has all those or even two of those elements is it amazing. True gifted art in every sense.
What happened to Kaba2?
This channel is proving to be expensive to watch 😂