●BOOK● OTOMO: LA NOUVELLE VAGUE DU MANGA

French publisher PIX N LOVE has published the book OTOMO: LA NOUVELLE VAGUE DU MANGA (Otomo: The new wave of Manga) written by Ludovic Gottigny with preface by Jean-Pierre Dionnet. Gottigny previously worked in the AKIRA special number for the French magazine ROCKYRAMA.

The book was also published in a collector's hard cover limited and numbered edition of 1000 copies with an exclusive cardboard sleeve with selective varnish and a numbered certificate of authenticity.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

■Acknowledgments
■Preface
■Foreword
■Prologue: walking in the sky
■A youth in the heart of the Sendai plain
■Part 1: the path to prodigious deicide
-Chapter 1: On the shoulders of the giants, in the contesting typhon
-Chapter 2: On the influence of the New American independent cinema and Avant-garde manga
-Chapter 3: Tokyo vice
-Chapter 4: To the sound of the new wave
-Chapter 5: Children's dreams
-Chapter 6: Pop culture is about to explode!
-Chapter 7: Building on the ruins of Neo-Tokyo
-Chapter 8: Ghost writer
■Part 2: An animated destiny.
-Chapter 1: Omnibus departing from Armageddon
-Chapter 2: A.D. 2019.
-Chapter 3: Memories of digital issues.
-Chapter 4: Illusions lost in the steam
-Chapter 5: Short Peace
-Chapter 6: Staying original
■Part 3: From pencil to camera.
-Chapter 1: Cinema desires
-Chapter 2: In search of lost japan
-Chapter 3: A life on film
■Part 4: Inside Otomo
-Chapter 1: Jack of all trade, master of all
-Chapter 2: Quotes and thoughts
■Part 5: Side stories
-Chapter 1: The shadow of the AKIRA myth.
-Chapter 2: The book eater
-Chapter 3: All for the music
-Chapter 4: Corpus - A selective bibliography
■Bibliography

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