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As you may have heard, Naoki Urasawa is going to be hosting a weekly series of hour-long NHK documentaries on the lives of cartoonists next month; subjects include Akiko Higashimura (Princess Jellyfish), Kazuhiro Fujita (Ushio and Tora) and Inio Asano (it’s Tumblr, I needn’t say more), but it will not surprise you to learn that I am most looking forward to the episode on Golgo 13 creator Takao Saitō, which is set to air on 9/25.

But that’s not *just* because Duke Togo was my imaginary friend as a child - Urasawa himself is actually tied to G13 history, insofar as one of his earliest shorts, 1983′s BETA!!, ran as a space-filling bonus feature in a contemporaneous Golgo 13 reprint book. Future Urasawa editor/co-writer/enabler Takashi Nagasaki was managing Saitō-Pro’s reprints at Shogakukan at the time, and it was through BETA!! that the two met; I doubt it was a coincidence that future Urasawa collaborators like Kazuya Kudō (Pineapple Army) and Hokusei Katsushika (Master Keaton) were both Golgo 13 scriptwriters. 

Anyway, in 2008 Shogakukan put out an enormous collection of thirteen Golgo 13 storylines as selected by thirteen celebrities; Urasawa was one of the participants, and above we see an excerpt from the story he picked, 1968′s “Roaring in the Delos Island”. A sharply traditional pick, as the tale’s staff represents the originating G13 creative team: writer Kazuo Koike; layout man Saburō Takemoto; work team heads Takemoto, Mikijirō Kōra and Fumiyasu Ishikawa, who managed individual groups of junior artists responsible for different parts of the story; and director Takao Saitō himself, who was still personally drawing parts of the comic at that time - perhaps it was him who decreed that these final five pages occur without dialogue, all the better to chase the cinematic dreams of commercial gekiga…

(Golgo 13, Takao Saitō & Saitō-Pro c. 1968)

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La Planète Encore (Another Planet)    Moebius

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Bernharda Xilko

Unapologetically, Yugoslavian artist Bernharda Xilko creates illustrations laced with brazen depictions of cartoonish creatures that adopt obviously sexual physical characteristics of varying proportions. While these elements engage our sense of humor, the driving force of the works resides in the themes that run under the images. There we see, Xilko explores how sex and sexuality influence our individual relationships, through the roles that we play, or by shaping our perception of ourselves. Simultaneously, Xilko broadens the suggestion that these characters are a metaphor for the way groups of people (ie. nations) act toward each other by inflaming emotions and inciting war. 

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dragi pobratime, 2015

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011, 2015, images posted with permission of the artist.

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NightApe by Patrick Keck, from Vision Quest No. 1.

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Night Passage from the Desert, 2013

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Originally published in Rough House #2 (Spring 2014).

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(Mai, the Psychic Girl, Ryōichi Ikegami, written by Kazuya Kudō, c. 1985-86)

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Titre : Grandma Moses In Doses Auteur(s) : Josephin Ritschel Éditions : Re:Surgo! Année : 2014 Collection : Mini Zines Technique d’impression : sérigraphie manuelle, deux couleurs sur papier jaune. Format : 110 x 150 mm Nombre de pages : 16 Tirage : 125 exemplaires numérotés (en l’occurrence # 73/125) Pays : Allemagne (Berlin)

Notes : chaque titre de cette collection est le nom d’un artiste suivi de « On » ou « In » plus quelque chose… / les sérigraphies sont réalisées manuellement par Anna Hellsgård et Christian Gfeller. Blast babil : l’architecture a toujours une bonne place dans les images de Josephin Ritschel, bâtis à la règle ces éléments donne un petit côté appliqué qui crée une dichotomie savoureuse entre une certaine rigidité et une souplesse assez naïve dans le traitement des autres formes. Le recours au muet confère une étrangeté supplémentaire au récit.

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Mevameva Re:Surgo! Offline

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(Mai, the Psychic Girl, Ryōichi Ikegami, written by Kazuya Kudō, c. 1985-86)

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Antonio Rubino: “Lupetto e la Nina” original art (published in Corriere dei Piccoli, 1952)

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Daredevil, Mephisto, and demons by John Romita Jr.

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Written by KOIKE Kazuo (小池一夫) and drawn by HIRANO Jin ( 平野仁 ), Shounen no Machi ZF / 少年の町ZF

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Crickets 4 coming next month. Pre-order it here. 

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