Monday, 15 June 2009

THE MANGA REVOLUTION


Where did I find this? ... I seem to have forgotten. I was just searching the internet for naruto front covers. This is a poster advertising the Tokyopop's website. For those who don't know Tokyopop is a really big American manga translator. I immediately saw it and thought: "Wow, is that not russian constructivism, wood block influenced or what!"... It's the bold primary colours; red, yellow and black; industrial themes- It even has the stars embedded into the title borders (communism!!!).
Tokyopop is really quite a good manga translator, I suggest checking it out some time.

THOSE CRAZY JAPANESE. shonen gangan.


Talk about colour harmony gone wrong.

This is an "editorial" (article) page about some game,but it comes from the famous shonen GanGan (the first post I did was about gangan). I actually scanned this page in from my gangan that I have (authentic Japanese!). I seems to use a primary colour co-ordination to crate a strong clash or "discord". Artwork wise I think is really good, exspecially how smooth the art work is next to the very geometric shapes of the text boxes. The way they have used shapes and colour (and overlapping) to create a sense of action while maintaining some clarity with it's strong grid system. I think is fascinating.

P.S. the Word gangan comes from the japanese sound effect for a quick/fast action.