Brandon Graham's Blog, page 44

Here’s some rough sketches for a couple of comic pitches. Me and...

Here’s some rough sketches for a couple of comic pitches. Me and Alejandra were talking about bringing back a character from one of my old porn comics (Stix from Perverts of the unknown) as a investigator looking into problems in a interdenominational brothel and the last page was a rejected megadeth short– I liked drawing the horse skeleton face. 

Want a list of some current manga to pursue? :3 Good manga that is, more seinen than shounen.

yess, I’d love that. 

Brandon!Can you link us or make a nice big post of your favorite manga or the essential manga people need to experience in their lifetime?

Sureee,  maybe I’ve talked all of these into the ground but here: 

My wheelhouse is mostly 1980′s boys manga 

some good stuff to track down– Tezuka (astro-boy, Black Jack) Matsumoto (Yamoto, Harlock) Go Nagai,(Devilman) Lone Wolf and cub,  Blade of the Immortal, Nana, Barefood Gen, Fist of the northstar, City hunter. 

Dragon ball (the early stuff especially)  and Doctor Slump– 

Toriyama’s work

was a big gateway for me into manga and the stuff he was doing in the 80′s really clicked with me– Also his later Sandland is pretty great too. 

Shirow’s Appleseed– What would a perfect society look like and what problems would it have? but also lots of cyborg cops. One of my favorite comics ever. it’s dense and sometimes confusing in really interesting ways. I think Shirow’s choices and page layouts and storytelling are fascinating. 

a comic about some of his storytelling that I did in Image plus– that was reprinted in my Royalboiler artbook

Grey– a shortish manga (6 issues in the US 80′s release) about a guy who will do anything to realize the dream of his dead girlfriend. Drawn in a sparse style 

I made a comic about Grey–

Lum and Ranma  and Maison Ikkoku– Takahashi’s 80′s stuff has such a fun tone to it. 

A comic lovers I did about her work– 

Area 88–  A commercial pilot tricked into joining a war. 

Urasawa’s work (20th century boys, Pluto and Monster) really revived my interest in modern manga and taught me a lot about the value of plot and structure– as well as helping me see the value in the assistant system in modern manga. 

Venus wars, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s drawing always looks so effortless– the same feeling I get from like an Alex Toth’s work. 

Otomo (Akira, Domu) I have an especial fondness for his pre Domu work. but that stuff is rare in english. 

nausicaa– I have a theory that Akira is best at the start – Its at it’s most Akira– the gangs, the mystery and the characters are at their strongest. but Nausicaa continues to build and build in quality and theme until the end. ( not to shit on Akira– even with that critique, no one else can Otomo like Otomo) Nausicaa is my favorite thing Miyazaki has done, it’s a shame he is so much more interested in animation than comics. 

Berzerk– Kind of like if Conan had one running revenge plot that pulled you through the entire saga. Another book I started reading when I was disenchanted with modern manga– that got me excited about what is possible in comics. – 

Uzumaki– Ito is the best horror comic artist I’ve encountered. 

Children of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi. The weather this artist draws ties his work to reality in a way I haven’t seen before. 

jiro taniguchi walking man– I feel like this comic is like the pure element of something that I need in all comics. that slow relatable feeling of just being a person in  the world. 

There’s also some manga that I’ve never read in English that has influenced me a lot like You are not alone – the way the artist shows feet specifically

and To-Y that I talk about in this comic lovers about music. 

Anyway, that is the list off the top of my head. I’m in a period removed from much going on in comics right now and certainly what’s going on in manga. I look forward to coming back to them in the future and finding more work that inspires me to make stuff. 

royalboiler:Another thing I’d love to see translated: Pages from...

royalboiler:

Another thing I’d love to see translated: Pages from mayumi yoshida’s We are not alone. That ran in Mimi Magazine. It’s about a single mother and her teenage daughter and I love the art. 

Big fan where can I purchase art prints from you ?

Thanks! 

I dunno if this Tumbr will last much longer– 

I think the only prints I have up right now are through WOODROCKET here 

in the last few of the daily drawings– Gundam

in the last few of the daily drawings– Gundam 

A diary comic I did this afternoon

A diary comic I did this afternoon 

smillingcartoonist:Heavy Metal 292 #The Smile of the Absent...

smillingcartoonist:

Heavy Metal 292 #

The Smile of the Absent Cat Part 3

This is interesting– cool to see Gerhard drawing a Morrison script 

An old Wizard Magazine Gerhard drawing backgrounds I got from...

An old Wizard Magazine Gerhard drawing backgrounds I got from here

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