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Keiichi Koike
(born in 1960) is a Japanese manga artist. Born in Tokyo, Koike won the prestigious Tezuka Award in 1976, when he was 16. His style, similar to Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius, is marked by vivid representations of psychedelic experiences. Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however, LSD is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of manga ''Heaven's Door'' and ''Ultra Heaven''. His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016. Works * 1985: '' Shadow Man'' * 1985–1986: ''Spinoza'' * 1988: '' Katajikenai'' * 1988: '' G'' * 1989–1991: ''Astroid'' * 2002–hiatus: ''Ultra Heaven'' * 2003: ''Heaven's Door Heaven's Door may refer to: * Pearly gates, the door to heaven * ''Heaven's Door'' (2009 film), a Japanese drama film * ''Heaven's Door'' (2013 film), an American spiritual drama film * "Heaven's D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga Artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot. While sometimes a stand-alone manga, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tezuka Award
The is a semi-annual manga award offered by the Japanese publisher Shueisha since 1971, under the auspices of its ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' magazine. It awarded new manga artists in the Story Manga category. Its counterpart award, Akatsuka Award, awards new manga artists in the Comedic Manga category. The award is named after the manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka and is designed to cultivate new artists. The prize for a top Selected Work is two million Japanese yen and for a lesser but still worthy work, a million yen. The award also has third place honorable mentions for contestants deemed worthy, that includes half a million yen. These cash prizes may not be awarded (as is often the case) if the judges deem none of the candidates worthy. Historically the recipients have been in their early twenties, although two notable winners were over 90 years of age. Selection committee Committee chair * Osamu Tezuka (1971-1988) * Fujio Akatsuka (1989-2008). Due to his failing health, this title was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsuhiro Otomo
is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator and film director. He is best known as the creator of '' Akira'', in terms of both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. He was decorated a ''Chevalier'' of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, promoted to ''Officier'' of the order in 2014, became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012, and was awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government in 2013. Otomo later received the Winsor McCay Award at the 41st Annie Awards in 2014 and the 2015 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, the first manga artist to receive the award. Otomo is married to Yoko Otomo. Together they have one child, a son named Shohei Otomo, who is also an artist. Early life Katsuhiro Otomo was born in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture and grew up in Tome District. He said that living in the very rural Tōhoku region left him with nothing to do as a child, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim under the pseudonym Mœbius (; ), as well as Gir () outside the English-speaking world, used for the '' Blueberry'' series—his most successful creation in the non-English speaking parts of the world—and his Western-themed paintings. Esteemed by Federico Fellini, Stan Lee, and Hayao Miyazaki, among others,Screech, Matthew. 2005. Moebius/Jean Giraud: ''Nouveau Réalisme'' and Science fiction. in Libbie McQuillan (ed) "The Francophone bande dessinée" Rodopi. p. 1 he has been described as the most influential ''bande dessinée'' artist after Hergé. His most famous works include the series ''Blueberry'', created with writer Jean-Michel Charlier, featuring one of the first antiheroes in Western comics. As Mœbius, he created a wide range of science-fiction and fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychedelia
Psychedelia refers to the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s and the psychedelic experience. This includes psychedelic art, psychedelic music and style of dress during that era. This was primarily generated by people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, mescaline (found in peyote) and psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) and also non-users who were participants and aficionados of this subculture. Psychedelic art and music typically recreate or reflect the experience of altered consciousness. Psychedelic art uses highly distorted, surreal visuals, bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons) to evoke, convey, or enhance the psychedelic experience. Psychedelic music uses distorted electric guitar, Indian music elements such as the sitar, tabla, electronic effects, sound effects and reverb, and elaborate studio effects, such as playing tapes backwards or panning the music from one side to another. A psychedelic experience is characteriz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica (''hentai'' and '' ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and mang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven's Door (manga)
Heaven's Door may refer to: * Pearly gates, the door to heaven * ''Heaven's Door'' (2009 film), a Japanese drama film * ''Heaven's Door'' (2013 film), an American spiritual drama film * "Heaven's Door" (song), a 2010 song by Beni * "Heaven's Door", a 2009 song by Alicia Keys from '' The Element of Freedom'' * ''Himmels-Tür'' (Heaven's Door), a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, part of the ''Klang'' cycle {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultra Heaven
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiichi Koike. It was serialized intermittently in Enterbrain's manga magazine ''Comic Beam'' starting in its July 2001 issue and has been collected into three . The manga is set in a future where drugs are legally sanctioned and follows the addict Kabu's experiences as he tries a drug called "Ultra Heaven" and experiments with devices called amplifiers. Plot Volume 1 Kabu is a junkie and dealer with suicidal tendencies. Drugs are injected through tubes called "pumps" or little patches placed on the skin. Kabu's drug of choice is called "Peter Pan," a euphoric hallucinogen. The drug isn't really doing it for him anymore, so he goes to pump bars and tries dangerous drug combinations that might kill him, so he can have the ultimate high of a near-death experience. He goes to a pump bar and asks for a dangerous mixture of drugs, but instead the maestro gives him a special called "Nova Express," which simulates the exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Man (manga)
Shadowman or Shadow Man may refer to: Film * ''Streets of Shadows'' (1953 film), released as ''Shadow Man'' in the U.S. * ''Shadow Man'' (1988 film), a Dutch-British film with Tom Hulce * ''Shadow Man'' (2006 film), a 2006 Steven Seagal film * ''Shadow Man'' (2014 film), an Indian film * ''Shadowman'' (2017 film), a 2017 documentary about street artist Richard Hambleton *'' Nuits Rouges'' or ''Shadowman'', a 1974 film by Georges Franju Television *"The Shadow Man", a 1985 episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' directed by Joe Dante *"Shadowmen", a 1992 episode of '' The Young Riders'' Video games * ''Shadow Man'' (video game), a 1999 video game by Acclaim Entertainment loosely based on the comic book *'' Shadow Man: 2econd Coming'', a 2002 sequel *Shadow Man, a boss in '' Mega Man 3'' Music * ''Shadowman'' (Steve Walsh album), 2005 * ''Shadowman'' (Link Wray album) * ''Shadow Man'' (Johnny Clegg & Savuka album), 1988 * Shadow Man (Tim Berne album) * "Shadow Man" (song), a song wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
G (manga)
G, or g, is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''gee'' (pronounced ), plural ''gees''. History The letter 'G' was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of ' C' to distinguish voiced from voiceless . The recorded originator of 'G' is freedman Spurius Carvilius Ruga, who added letter G to the teaching of the Roman alphabet during the 3rd century BC: he was the first Roman to open a fee-paying school, around 230 BCE. At this time, ' K' had fallen out of favor, and 'C', which had formerly represented both and before open vowels, had come to express in all environments. Ruga's positioning of 'G' shows that alphabetic order related to the letters' values as Greek numerals was a concern even in the 3rd century BC. According to some records, the original seventh letter, 'Z', had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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