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I've been an Anime / Manga fan since I first saw
Astroboy
and
Kimba
on TV, here in Florida. Since then, I've carried on an interest in Japanese
animation art and transforming robots for years, and was lucky enough to
spend 18 months in
Yokota
back in 1974, while I was in the US Air Force. I got watch stuff like
"Mighty
Raideen",
Casshan,
Gatchaman
right off TV...
Seems like about 2 years after I got back, that it all seemed to follow me
back to the US. <grin>
I've been drawing for years, and used to draw a great deal of anime influenced
art. One reason I gave up doing it is that I found the anime fandom
to be very clannish, and very good at shunning newcomers, and
"outsiders"... It seemed to me that unless you knew somebody who knew somebody
who knew somebody... that nobody wanted much to do with you, or your artwork.
The reaction I always used to get is "ho hum, yet another fan artist"...
Especially from the "good" folks at
Antartic Press who ignored my
letters and contest contributions repeatedly. After being discouraged so
thoroughly, I discovered Furry Fandom, and pretty much gave up on anime art,
and now do furry art pretty much exclusively...
In any event, I've got a great deal of old anime art off-line, and as I get
time, I'll try to scan and upload it.
All the artwork on this page is mine... Click any picture to enlarge
it.
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Many folks got involved with Anime fandom as a result
of Carl Macek's importation / translation of the three
series
Macross,
Southern
Cross, and
Mospeda...
You may know the series better by it's US name,
Robotech. |
It was and still is good, but now seems dated in comparison to newer movies
and tv shows.
I'd enjoyed the exploits of the "Lovely Angels"
("Dirty
Pair") for many years, and have been drawing Kei and Yuri with pen and
ink, and even on an old CGA drawing program. Needless to say, these
books / videos were 'grey market' imports, and most weren't translated...
:P
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I was delighted when I heard there was going to be a new comic book based
on them.
"Biohazards" was the most sexy and purely fun comic I'd read in years...
Adam
Warren's rendition of "The Pair" is by far my favorite one, and he's
come to be on of my favorite american "anime" artists. I've bought
nearly every issue of the
"Dirty
Pair" comic, and most of the rest of Adam's work that I could find, since
then.......
Click the pic to the left to see my drawing of "The Dirty Pair", based on
Adam Warren's work... |
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My favorite Anime "series" of all time has to be
Bubblegum
Crisis...
(you can tell by my artwork on the left)
I bought the VHS cassettes from
AnimEigo via mail order,
long before it got popular, and started showing up in retail
stores like Blockbuster... |
I was really pleased when
Adam
Warren tackled the Knight Sabers in his
"Grand
Mal" series. As with "The Dirty Pair", Adam caught the flavor of the
series well (tho his Priss was a little more seamy than I expected) and the
book turned out to be a real treat. Dennis Moul has a
great page on the comics,
with pictures of the covers.
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Another of my favorite american "anime" artist s is
Fred
Perry...
His comic, "Gold
Digger" is one I rarely miss, even when I'm short of funds.
(it's published by Antartic
Press... Yuck)
I've done a few sketches of Brittany Diggers, aka Cheetah... (see left) |
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One series I enjoyed that hasn't gotten much recognition is
"Outlanders".
Johji
Manabe is an excellent artist,and another of my favorites.
You may notice that there seem to be two very similar pics of Kahm above.
The one with the sword was drawn on paper, colored with Prismacolor pencils
and scanned... |
Anime / Manga that I like:
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