Brandon Graham's Blog, page 207
August 26, 2015
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As you may have heard, Naoki Urasawa is going to...
As you may have heard, Naoki Urasawa is going to be hosting a weekly series of hour-long NHK documentaries on the lives of cartoonists next month; subjects include Akiko Higashimura (Princess Jellyfish), Kazuhiro Fujita (Ushio and Tora) and Inio Asano (it’s Tumblr, I needn’t say more), but it will not surprise you to learn that I am most looking forward to the episode on Golgo 13 creator Takao Saitō, which is set to air on 9/25.
But that’s not *just* because Duke Togo was my imaginary friend as a child - Urasawa himself is actually tied to G13 history, insofar as one of his earliest shorts, 1983′s BETA!!, ran as a space-filling bonus feature in a contemporaneous Golgo 13 reprint book. Future Urasawa editor/co-writer/enabler Takashi Nagasaki was managing Saitō-Pro’s reprints at Shogakukan at the time, and it was through BETA!! that the two met; I doubt it was a coincidence that future Urasawa collaborators like Kazuya Kudō (Pineapple Army) and Hokusei Katsushika (Master Keaton) were both Golgo 13 scriptwriters.
Anyway, in 2008 Shogakukan put out an enormous collection of thirteen Golgo 13 storylines as selected by thirteen celebrities; Urasawa was one of the participants, and above we see an excerpt from the story he picked, 1968′s “Roaring in the Delos Island”. A sharply traditional pick, as the tale’s staff represents the originating G13 creative team: writer Kazuo Koike; layout man Saburō Takemoto; work team heads Takemoto, Mikijirō Kōra and Fumiyasu Ishikawa, who managed individual groups of junior artists responsible for different parts of the story; and director Takao Saitō himself, who was still personally drawing parts of the comic at that time - perhaps it was him who decreed that these final five pages occur without dialogue, all the better to chase the cinematic dreams of commercial gekiga…
(Golgo 13, Takao Saitō & Saitō-Pro c. 1968)
August 25, 2015
I like to redraw panels, here’s some examples off of...
I like to redraw panels, here’s some examples off of Kougami Eri stuff
more of stuff I sketched today.I drew Marian on there hissing.
more of stuff I sketched today.
I drew Marian on there hissing.
Sketchbook fanart of Adam Warren’s Empowered.
Sketchbook fanart of Adam Warren’s Empowered.
I sketchbook page –drawing from manga and photos...
I sketchbook page –drawing from manga and photos –and Marian drew herself at the top. Bad dude #1
is it alright if i use the writing system in arclight #1 in my own notes and drawings? they'll probably stay private and i'm not sure if it was you, brandon, or ariana who invented it, but i figure i ought to ask you guys just to be polite.
Yes, by all means. I think that would be awesome if you did.
We actually came up with that alphabet pre-Arclight, because we wanted a language for the god creatures we were painting.
What is inkstuds? Has it been kickstarted already? Is it like an artbook?
It is my pal Robin’s comic book interview show that I sometimes co-host. (you can hear it here. We did a kickstarter awhile back to travel the globe and it’ll have an art book that I’ve been slowly working on. It’ll be sent to people that donated but also sold in comic shops.
Will Jesse Moynihan be doing anything for Island? Please say "YES".
I haven’t talked to Jesse since we did the AT episode, but yeah, that would be cool. I wanna get a couple adventure time guys– like my old pal Tom Herpich and Andy Ristaino and Rebecca Sugar would be awesome to get in Island.
The intro page and list of serious dudes in ISLAND #3 –I...
The intro page and list of serious dudes in ISLAND #3 –I think this will be a rad issue.
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