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Phoenix art by Osamu Tezuka

Artist: Osamu Tezuka (All)

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Phoenix art by Osamu Tezuka Comic Art

 

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Title: Phoenix art by Osamu Tezuka
Artist: Osamu Tezuka (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 2,189
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Comments: 9
Added to Site: 11/3/2016
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Tezuka = God of Manga


This was a very unexpected find on my recent trip to Tokyo. It is an unused partial page from his most important work, Phoenix. It is from issue 9 (in the English books) circa 1974. This page is from a battle sequence but different art is present in the copy I have. The panel arrangements and off square shape of the art suggest these were part of a larger page that was later reformatted or redrawn. It is signed(later) by Tezuka on a yellow mat with the signature touching the art. Tezuka, like Herge, was known to redraw pages from edition to edition so it is possible this was an earlier version of a page that was later replaced. I am hoping to find out a bit more about this piece in the coming days. Tezuka did not use assistants so this is pure Tezuka art. I already have one Tezuka page in my collection from Black Jack that is likely a forgery. I have a few other small scraps from Tezuka.

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Marvel Two-in-One Guy 
Member Since 2003

Posted on 11/3/2016

Wow!

Aaron N.  
Member Since 2009

Posted on 11/3/2016

Wow, is right!

Eric F 
Member Since 2009

Posted on 11/3/2016

Fantastic catch!!!

Timothy Finney 
Member Since 2006

Posted on 11/4/2016

Congratulations for finding this small gem from the God of Manga.

Kyle K 
Member Since 2012

Posted on 11/5/2016

This is really cool. Firstly, Tokyo is amazing and I'm dying to go back; hope you had a good time! I was recently looking into Dragon Ball manga OA but found nothing. I'm very curious how the manga OA market operates, and what sort of interest it has in Japan. I'm usually able to track things down with success, so the almost complete lack of information surrounding the plethora of Dragon Ball artwork produced was a surprise! Anyhow, congrats on the Tokyo pickups -- cool stuff!

Jeff Singh 
Member Since 2004

Posted on 11/8/2016

Kyle K wrote:

This is really cool. Firstly, Tokyo is amazing and I'm dying to go back; hope you had a good time! I was recently looking into Dragon Ball manga OA but found nothing. I'm very curious how the manga OA market operates, and what sort of interest it has in Japan. I'm usually able to track things down with success, so the almost complete lack of information surrounding the plethora of Dragon Ball artwork produced was a surprise! Anyhow, congrats on the Tokyo pickups -- cool stuff!

It is my understanding that it is almost impossible to find any art by top manga artists. I have been told that is looked at as a loss of face to sell art as it means you were not good enough to make a living on the published work alone. I am not sure how true that is. Most of the art exists but is owned by studios who don't sell art so only rare pages get out. Some are gifts, some are reworked pages or pages that may have been kept by assistants. There are a handful of pages out there from most series but they are pretty rare and when they come up at auction, they sell for quite high prices.

Kyle K 
Member Since 2012

Posted on 11/8/2016

Jeff Singh wrote:

It is my understanding that it is almost impossible to find any art by top manga artists. I have been told that is looked at as a loss of face to sell art as it means you were not good enough to make a living on the published work alone. I am not sure how true that is. Most of the art exists but is owned by studios who don't sell art so only rare pages get out. Some are gifts, some are reworked pages or pages that may have been kept by assistants. There are a handful of pages out there from most series but they are pretty rare and when they come up at auction, they sell for quite high prices.

Wow! Thanks for the info, good to know.

Fabio C. 
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/8/2016

a Tezuka piece is pure gold (it was fantastic to see it in Lucca!)

Eric Seffinga 
Member Since 2005

Posted on 11/8/2016

Amazeballs.

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