Japanese Fine Manga & Anime Art Collection

Brief Introduction to Modern Manga History...

At the end of the Second World War, Ozamu Tezuka, rightly seen as the father of modern manga, crystallized a great number of manga codes. In endeavoring to depict movement, he was one of the inventors of lines running through a square, which heightened the intensity of action, and of “big eyes,” which take up a considerable amount of a character’s face and have been highly criticized in the West. Nevertheless, according to his friend and translator Frederik L. Schodt, Tezuka’s inspiration for the eyes of characters like Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy) in 1952 came from American culture, which had entered Japanese soil in the form of Walt Disney’s Bambi and Betty Boop, a character created by Max Fleischer’s studio in the 1930s and which also did not arrive in Japan until after the war. Atomu’s design was innovative and, once adapted for the Japanese public, became a huge success. Other artists followed suit, gracing the faces of their characters with the same distinctive pairs of eyes.

Osamu Tezuka became known under the honorable title of manga kamisama, “the God of manga.” The whole of his works cover some 150,000 pages, including over 700 mangas and seventy animated series, the vast majority of which are only available in the original Japanese. On February 9, 1989, the date of the master’s death, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun published the following: “Foreign visitors to Japan often find it difficult to understand why Japanese people like comics so much. One explanation for the popularity of comics in Japan, however, is that Japan had Tezuka Osamu, whereas other nations did not. Without Dr. Tezuka, the postwar explosion in comics in Japan would have been inconceivable.”

Japanese Traditionnal Animation...

The most esteemed mangas are adapted to cartoons. Animation was Osamu Tezuka’s real passion, and in January 1963, he directed the first weekly Japanese animated series for TV based on one of his works: Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy). In America, NBC purchased the distribution rights, and Fred Laderman—better known as Fred Ladd—a specialist in cartoon dubbing, was commissioned to adapt 104 of 193 episodes of this televised series for the American market. The success of this reformatted Astro Boy paved the way for other works by Osamu Tezuka: Gigantor (Tetsujin 28-go) in 1964 and Kimba the White Lion (Janguru Taitei), the first animated television series to appear in color, in 1965. The American market owes a great deal to these two men: Ozamu Tezuka for his creativity and Fred Ladd for granting audiences access to Japanese animation in English.

More about the CAF gallery owner...

Author of the A rated MA thesis "Market Research of Graphic Products in Japanese Animation", graduated from the ESSEC business school (Operations management , FT Top 10 ranked business school) and UQAM Montreal training / internship "Knowledge of North American market". In charge of FIST OF THE NORTH STAR mother tongue french fan board PR. Certificates are officially recognized by global insurance company, several auction houses and premium private collectors. Been working for years in cooperation with museum conservators, art and painting restorers, scientists, polymer material specialists and famous collectors to offer the best guarantees for your artwork control procedure and to avoid any counterfeiter to fool you.

Since the 1960s, Japanese animation has shaped several generations of children in front of their television set. This medium claims to be even more powerful than the big screen, which paved the way for popular pictures three decades earlier, because TV transports the culture of the “Land of the Rising Sun” via Hertzian waves directly into viewers’ living rooms. Be it in the United States, Arabic-speaking countries, Europe, or Asia, anyone with a TV has at one point in his life been stirred in front of the adventures of Japanese characters. These are the same people who, regardless of their social class, were thrilled in front of their family TV set—that babysitter of the 1980s—and for whom Japanese animation has become the transporter of global identification. Able to assist you all over the world to accompany your Japanese styled exhibition projects by providing important advice for arts framing coupled with conservation aspects as humidity and temperature levels. May also lend you a private collection fund recreating 40 years of traditional handmade TV animation.

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Astro Boy manga

Art Details

Artist:	Osamu Tezuka (All)
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Cover
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	1361
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	6/24/2011

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Benoit Spacher
Member Since:	June 2011

Astro Boy manga
Artist: Osamu Tezuka (All)
1361 Views, 1 Comment

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Astro Boy - 1st TV series

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Artist:
Media Type:	Paint - Acrylic
Art Type:	Animation
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	6264
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	6/24/2011

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Benoit Spacher
Member Since:	June 2011

Astro Boy - 1st TV series
Artist: 6264 Views, 2 Comments

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Astro model sheet HD

Art Details

Artist:	Studio Tezuka (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	2257
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	11/4/2011

About the Owner

Benoit Spacher
Member Since:	June 2011

Astro model sheet HD
Artist: Studio Tezuka (All)
2257 Views, 2 Comments

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Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman)

Art Details

Artist:	Masami Suda (All)
Media Type:	Pastels
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	1494
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	6/24/2011

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Benoit Spacher
Member Since:	June 2011

Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman)
Artist: Masami Suda (All)
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Tomorrow Joe

Art Details

Artist:	Akio Sugino (All)
Media Type:	Pastels
Art Type:	Other
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	1255
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	6/24/2011

About the Owner

Benoit Spacher
Member Since:	June 2011

Tomorrow Joe
Artist: Akio Sugino (All)
1255 Views, 2 Comments

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Space Adventure Cobra

Art Details

Artist:
Media Type:	Mixed Media
Art Type:	Animation
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views	781
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	4/16/2013

About the Owner

Benoit Spacher
Member Since:	June 2011

Space Adventure Cobra
Artist: 781 Views, 2 Comments

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+ Cobra Art Details Artist: Buichi Terasawa (All) Media Type: Marker Art Type: Convention Sketch For Sale Status: NFS Views 546 Comments: 0 Added to Site: 2/12/2017 About the Owner Benoit Spacher Member Since: June 2011 Cobra Artist: Buichi Terasawa (All) 546 Views

+ 2014-2015 season - Cultural Exhibition Art Details Artist: Media Type: Photograph Art Type: Other For Sale Status: NFS Views 434 Comments: 0 Added to Site: 5/29/2014 About the Owner Benoit Spacher Member Since: June 2011 2014-2015 season - Cultural Exhibition Artist: 434 Views

+ 2014-2015 season - Cultural Exhibition Art Details Artist: Media Type: Photograph Art Type: Other For Sale Status: NFS Views 359 Comments: 0 Added to Site: 5/29/2014 About the Owner Benoit Spacher Member Since: June 2011 2014-2015 season - Cultural Exhibition Artist: 359 Views

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