●ILLUSTRATED ESSAY● MANJU KOWAI (饅頭こわい) #25

MANJU KOWAI (饅頭こわい) #25
Hisa uchi Michio kaku toko no rūtsu “yamamoto san”-ka no baai
ひさうちみちお描くとこのルーツ“山本さん”家の場合

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Published in Variety (バラエティ)
1981-VIII-21 | 2 pages | B&W

●ILLUSTRATION● KITAN (綺譚) magazine

Katsuhiro Otomo has drawn the cover illustration for the fourth number of KITAN (綺譚) magazine.

●MAGAZINE● MANGA KISŌTENGAI No.7 Otomo Katsuhiro Special

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

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Publisher: Kisōtengaisha (奇想天外社)
Release date: 1981-VIII-15
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 308
Size: A5
Retail price: ¥590





AVAILABILITY

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Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/2ICRVOq

●MANGA● KIBUN WA MOO SENSOO - SAISHŪ KAI ( SONO ICHI ) SARABA ITOSHIKI KUNIGUNI YO (気分はもう戦争 - 最終回 (その１) さらば愛しき国々よ)

KIBUN WA MOO SENSOO - SAISHŪ KAI ( SONO ICHI ) SARABA ITOSHIKI KUNIGUNI YO (気分はもう戦争 - 最終回 (その１) さらば愛しき国々よ)

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Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)
1981-VIII-13 | 16 pages | B&W

Written by Yahagi Toshihiko (矢作俊彦) 

Illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Collected  in the books:

●KIBUN WA MŌ SENSŌ [1982 edition]

●KIBUN WA MŌ SENSŌ [2000 edition]

●ILLUSTRATION● FUSION PRODUCT Jun Ishikawa Special Report

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

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Publisher: Fusion Product
Release date: 1981-VIII-1
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 224
Size: A5
Retail price: ¥490





AVAILABILITY

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Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/38IuXQy

●MANGA● NOA NO HAKO FUNE (ノアの箱船) -That's Amazing World-

NOA NO HAKO FUNE (ノアの箱船) -That's Amazing World-

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Just Comic (ジャストコミッ)
1981-VIII-1 | 5 pages | B&W

Collected in the book:
●OTOMO KATSUHIRO ANTHOLOGY 1 






Otomo's note from Anthology's postface

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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.