Otomo's ongoing series: APPLE PARADISE was not published this month due to author's circumstances, and the magazine in which it was being serialized published a 16 page Katsuhiro Otomo special instead; collecting works in progress illustrations and sketches of Otomo's illustrations.
MAGAZINE DETAILS Publisher: Kisōtengaisha (奇想天外社)
Release date: 1981-VIII-15
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 308
Size: A5
Retail price: ¥590
No matter what I'm writing, I'm always pursued by deadlines, and the closer the deadline, the harder I find it to persuade myself that the drawings are up to scratch. Then, as a reaction, the more I wish I could draw properly... When I feel like that, writing a lengthy piece is an impossibility, so I figure that at any rate I might as well draw something short but in which the pictures are sharp and clear. However, since these stories ran as a serial in a monthly magazine, I found myself once more hounded by deadlines, felt increasingly unable to drawn and came more and more to dislike what I was drawing... These are all Western parodies, but I would like to do some Japanese ones someday.
Katsuhiro Otomo has contributed with an illustration to this month's FUSION PRODUCT magazine special issue on his friend manga author Jun Ishikawa (いしかわじゅん).
MAGAZINE DETAILS Publisher: Fusion Product
Release date: 1981-VIII-1
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 224
Size: A5
Retail price: ¥490