The AX collection book is now about quarter the way done, thanks to the excellent work of translator Spencer Fancutt and designer Ian Sharman who are working with me on putting the collection together. Top Shelf have hired Eric Skillman to design the cover/back and here is what it looks like above. Pretty damn good.
It continues to excite a lot of interest amongst fans of mature manga. The excellent blog by Ryan Sands, Same Hat!, Same Hat!, has on ongoing consideration of the AX book on it, plus Tatsumi's books with D&Q. see here:
http://samehat.blogspot.com/2009/02/preview-of-tatsumis-drifting-life.html
Plus they have even started a 'AX anthology research project' to garner more info on the various Japanese manga ka that will be featured in the book. Now that's dedication for you! Feb 13th: I've now added three pages here to give the folks over at AX project some visuals of the people they are researching: top: Kiriyama, middle: Kawasaki, bottom: Fujieda
See it here:
http://blog.electricantzine.com/tag/ax
Here is a list of all the great manga ka that will be in the book - most of them appearing in English for the first time. Plus the original edition of the Japanese AX they appeared in is listed, and how many pages they will have in the new English AX collection:
Osamu Kanno: 菅野修「眺める男」(44)12P
Yoshihiro Tatsumi: 辰巳ヨシヒロ「愛の花嫁」(31)22P
Imiri Sakabashira: 逆柱いみり「空の巻き貝」(44)16P
Takao Kawasaki: 川崎タカオ「屋上哀歌」(47)10P
Ayuko Akiyama: 秋山亜由子「瓢箪の中」(31)8P
Shigehiro Okada: オカダシゲヒロ「俺」(45)16P
Katsuo Kawai: 河井克夫「画鋲女」(18)8P
Nishioka Brosis: 西岡兄妹「心が壊れた」(22)8P
Takato Yamamoto: 山本タカト「闇の方へ」(30)8P
Toranosuke Shimada: 島田虎之介「エンリケ小林のエルドラド」(14)20P
Yuka Goto: 後藤友香「隣人」(22)13P
Mimiyo Tomozawa: 友沢ミミヨ「300ねん」(2)10P
Takashi Nemoto: 根本敬「黒寿司十八番」(1)12P
Yusaku Hanakuma: 花くまゆうさく「息子はイヌ」(12)10P
Namie Fujieda: 藤枝奈己絵「輝く人。」(37)10P
Mitsuhiko Yoshida: 吉田光彦「兎と亀」(40)20P
Kotobuki Shiriagari: しりあがり寿「双子のオヤジ 存在」(2)6P/「神様」(17)6P
Shinbo Minami: 南伸坊「ロボとピュー太」(56)4P/(58)4P
Shinya Komatsu: コマツシンヤ「Mushroom Garden」(52)12P
Einosuke: 英之助「菅原家」(33)6P
Yuichi Kiriyama: 桐山裕市「屍錦」(42)7P
Yunosuke Saito: 齋藤裕之介「アリゾナ」(49)10P
Akino Kondo: こんどうあきの「雨の白シャツ」(40)8P
Tomohiro Koizumi: 古泉智浩「わいわいパーティ3」(56)8P
Shin'ichi Abe: 安部慎一「私」(36)4P/「父」(38)4P
Seiko Erisawa: 衿沢世衣子「さかあがり」(47)4P
Shigeyuki Fukumitsu: 福満しげゆき「おじさんのうた」(20)18P
Kataoka Toyo: 東陽片岡「哀愁劇場」(48)4P/(51)4P
Hideyasu Moto: 本秀康「岡田幸介と50人の息子たち」(2)13P
Keizo Miyanishi: 宮西計三「Les ラスコーリニコフs」(2)10P
Hiroji Tani: 谷弘兒「妖花アルラウネ」(22)10P
Otoya Mitsuhashi: 三橋乙揶「灯明」(9)10P
Kazuichi Hanawa: 花輪和一「六富道」(59)26P
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10 comments:
Hello Sean Michael,
i'm so glad your hard work is near to be published!! Congratulations!
the front and back cover is amazing and your project so interesting that i cannot wait to get a copy of it!
The only manga ka i know is Shin'ichi Abe, and i've read his manga "paradise" (a french edition)
and it's great!
as you say: Gambatte!!
all the best
Erika
Imri Sakabashira yeaaaaaaaaaahhh!!
Incredible all the authors, what an incredible book that will be that!!
I dont have more words towards you and the book, really I think that I have said all!!
but another congratulations and saying thanks for editing and publishing this kinds of things you reallly deserve it!!
saludos sean!!
ps: KAZUICHI HANAWAAAAAAAAAA AHAHAHHAHAHAHA the bes!!
Arigato for your support!
But Erika that second cover image is not the back for AX collection, its one of the covers from the Japanese AX, isue 53.
As you can see Ive added 3 more pages from the book now, pages by Kiriyama, Fujieda and Kawasaki. with more to come, just to let you see little previews, bit by bit, of the book to come.
ta,
Sean
hi Sean. i got to you through Same Hat.I asked ryan if he had a nice scan of that group photo in the 1958 Matenrou scan,do you know the one i´m talking about? The one of the young gekiga artists.He told me it was part of a presentation you did, and suggested me to ask you directly.I would love to have that picture,maybe frame it and hang it in my studio. I would really apreciate if you uploaded (maybe photobucket or something), if it´s not an inconvenient for you.
Thanks, greetings from Argentina.
Hi Berliac - yes i know that photo. Nice, aint it!
But I am not sure if I am allowed to send a copy of it to you. Let me ask!
Cheers,
Sean
HI Sean.
Thanks you very much.I want it not for commertial purposes,of course, just to frame it and hang it right next to my drawing board.The author´s, by the time of that picture, might have been my current age, so, you understand, it´s some kind of incentive to me.
Thanks once again.My email is in my profile,if you want to write to me privately.
Wassup, Sean, could you ask about the pic?
Hi Berliac, not yet - sorry about that. But i have asked. Chotto mate, ne...
I love it! Very creative!That's actually really cool.
謝謝你的文章分享,請你有空到我
馬城界隨意部落格
參觀,Thanks
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