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Yoshihiro Tatsumi Dynamite Magazine #2 (1962) pg.116

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Title:	Yoshihiro Tatsumi Dynamite Magazine #2 (1962) pg.116
Artist:	Yoshihiro Tatsumi (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	104
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Added to Site:	1/8/2023
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Page from one of the all time great mangaka, Yoshihiro Tatsumi who is credited with creating the term gekiga which translates to "dramatic pictures," of which he was one of the early leading voices.

This piece is from the Yoshihiro Tatsumi Dynamite Magazine #2, from a story titled "Go Back to the Cage," which was a publication made for the Japan rental market. Cards on the table, I have not read this story in full only the pages that were offered up for sale, and bought pages from this book solely based on my love of Yoshihiro Tatsumi and how rare it is to find original manga pages available to the public. I am still trying to track down an affordable copy of the book.

Purchased this on eBay from editor and manga researcher, Mitsuhiro Asakawa, who US based readers may know from the many essays written for English gekiga manga reprints, right as pages were first put up, so luckily I was able to get every page I was interested in.

This page is referencing the opening scene of the story where the performer, our protagonist has taken out of the picture, is performing in front of a large crowd in a similar composition. For a manga that I assume would be on a heavy deadline it's amazing how many great visual metaphors Tatsumi can weave into the story, such as here where the streamers that are let down for the performance double as strings that show us the protagonist is in control of not only the audience he is performing for but the larger plots of the story of which at this point he is in total control of, truly the puppet master of the story.

The blue color on the page shows up as a light shade in the printed version.

If anyone has further information or corrections please let me know as I would be very appreciative of any insight.

Pencil, Ink on paper.

Roughly 8" x 11" original size but paper has been cut up to film as many pages as possible.

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