Thursday, 26 June 2014
Japan Expo Paris - 2nd July - 6th July
In next week, "D.K./UMISEN-YAMASEN (me, Chie Kutsuwada, Artist DeadlyKawaii
)will be joining Japan Expo in Paris! Our table is DN93 in Hall 6.
Please visit us to check out new postcards, and get manga portraits!
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Do you want to taste a bit of Japanese horror manga?
A genealogy of Japanese horror manga - 200 years ago Japanese people
loved having a gathering of telling 100 scary tales especially in hot
summer night in order to get a little chill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakumonogatari_Kaidankai
But Sekien Toriyama published a Yokai catalogue which gave many scary folklores clear visual images. Collectionism is really a part of our culture（gotta catch'em all!!)
1960- Shigeru MIzuki (yokai stories) - '70&'80 - Kazuo Umezu (Sci-Fi/ monsters) - Hideshi Hino (lyrical spratter), '90~ Junji Ito (dark surrealism).
2000- There are more mangas of adaptation of urban legends. Such as Ryoko Yamagishi's "Yurei Dan (Ghost Tales)"Minetaro Mochizuki's "Zashiki Onna(Zashiki Woman)", and Masaaki Nakayama's "Fuan no Tane (Pet Peeve)".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyakumonogatari_Kaidankai
But Sekien Toriyama published a Yokai catalogue which gave many scary folklores clear visual images. Collectionism is really a part of our culture（gotta catch'em all!!)
1960- Shigeru MIzuki (yokai stories) - '70&'80 - Kazuo Umezu (Sci-Fi/ monsters) - Hideshi Hino (lyrical spratter), '90~ Junji Ito (dark surrealism).
2000- There are more mangas of adaptation of urban legends. Such as Ryoko Yamagishi's "Yurei Dan (Ghost Tales)"Minetaro Mochizuki's "Zashiki Onna(Zashiki Woman)", and Masaaki Nakayama's "Fuan no Tane (Pet Peeve)".
Those skillfully drawn and told horror manga are so eerie that you might don't want to keep the copy in your home...
By the way, m absolute favorite horror manga is "Tomie" by Junji Ito. Tomie is a name of a girl who most men fell in love instantly in first site. But then for no reason they develop an urge to cut her apart, but all parts of her body grow into another Tomie...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomie ohttp://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqtc8G3az1r4xqamo1_r1...
日本のホラー漫画の系譜をたどってみた。
江戸時代に流行した百物語怪談をはじめ、気持ち悪い怪談は日本人の間でとても人気があり、鳥山石燕の「画図百鬼夜行」刊行で古い妖怪話がきちんと形を伴っていったようだ。
６０年代以降にも水木しげる画の「妖怪図鑑」などがある。
その後も梅図かずお、日野日出志、伊藤潤二などの著名ホラー作家が名を馳せるが、９０年代をすぎると、妖怪や怪物の他に、じっとりと怖い都市伝説系のものも人気になる。
「ゆうれい談」山岸凉子、「座敷女」望月峯太郎、そして「不安の種」中山昌亮などが上げられる。
素晴らしい画力とストーリーテリング力で制作されたこれらの漫画は、素晴らしいのだが、その怖さ故に家に置いておくのは抵抗がある…。
自分のお気に入りのホラー漫画を一冊上げるとしたら、伊藤潤二の「富江」であろう。その美しさから、ほぼ全ての男性は一目で恋に落ちるのだが、何故か全員富江をバラバラに切り刻みたい欲求にかられ始める。バラバラにされた富江の身体は、その部分すべてがそれぞれ別の富江に育ち、また男性を惑わせ始める…。
異常なまでのねっちょりとした書き込みでじわじわ怖がらせる伊藤潤二の漫画は素晴らしいの一言！
By the way, m absolute favorite horror manga is "Tomie" by Junji Ito. Tomie is a name of a girl who most men fell in love instantly in first site. But then for no reason they develop an urge to cut her apart, but all parts of her body grow into another Tomie...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomie ohttp://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqtc8G3az1r4xqamo1_r1...
日本のホラー漫画の系譜をたどってみた。
江戸時代に流行した百物語怪談をはじめ、気持ち悪い怪談は日本人の間でとても人気があり、鳥山石燕の「画図百鬼夜行」刊行で古い妖怪話がきちんと形を伴っていったようだ。
６０年代以降にも水木しげる画の「妖怪図鑑」などがある。
その後も梅図かずお、日野日出志、伊藤潤二などの著名ホラー作家が名を馳せるが、９０年代をすぎると、妖怪や怪物の他に、じっとりと怖い都市伝説系のものも人気になる。
「ゆうれい談」山岸凉子、「座敷女」望月峯太郎、そして「不安の種」中山昌亮などが上げられる。
素晴らしい画力とストーリーテリング力で制作されたこれらの漫画は、素晴らしいのだが、その怖さ故に家に置いておくのは抵抗がある…。
自分のお気に入りのホラー漫画を一冊上げるとしたら、伊藤潤二の「富江」であろう。その美しさから、ほぼ全ての男性は一目で恋に落ちるのだが、何故か全員富江をバラバラに切り刻みたい欲求にかられ始める。バラバラにされた富江の身体は、その部分すべてがそれぞれ別の富江に育ち、また男性を惑わせ始める…。
異常なまでのねっちょりとした書き込みでじわじわ怖がらせる伊藤潤二の漫画は素晴らしいの一言！
Monday, 16 June 2014
Love unlimited
I gave a manga workshop at Phoenix Gallery last Friday titled 'Love Unlimited".
Having Chie Kutsuwada as a guest artist to talk about love romance manga including Yaoi with its brief history, recent trend, and broad genre treating some kind of "Love": Love manga for boys, for girls, Yaoi, Yuri, Otoko no ko, and so on with actual samples.
We also discussed with participants about escapism and gender issues on the market.
Why Yaoi market is ever so growing now?
Is it differ from Gay comic?
What group of people are attracted by Yuri manga?
There are countless subjects we could have explore more.
Finally we did an activity to try expressing a relationship by drawing 2 characters together.
Intense love? Or rivals? Tsundere? Bromance? Giving it try to explain what kind of relationship the characters have as much as possible by the drawing.
The way of expression of different kind of love are indeed unlimited. I hope the introductions and the practice would inspire all creators.
Having Chie Kutsuwada as a guest artist to talk about love romance manga including Yaoi with its brief history, recent trend, and broad genre treating some kind of "Love": Love manga for boys, for girls, Yaoi, Yuri, Otoko no ko, and so on with actual samples.
We also discussed with participants about escapism and gender issues on the market.
Why Yaoi market is ever so growing now?
Is it differ from Gay comic?
What group of people are attracted by Yuri manga?
There are countless subjects we could have explore more.
Finally we did an activity to try expressing a relationship by drawing 2 characters together.
Intense love? Or rivals? Tsundere? Bromance? Giving it try to explain what kind of relationship the characters have as much as possible by the drawing.
The way of expression of different kind of love are indeed unlimited. I hope the introductions and the practice would inspire all creators.
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