You probably missed my last post on this..
https://partiko.app/hockney/manga-at-the-british-museum
A lot of this post refers to things explained in the previous post.
This is the sequel. I had a guided tour from one of the curators - an American lady who spoke Japanese (I think fluently, but what do I know?).
She read us the Death of Eel Dog story in Japanese, so we could hear the different laughs!
I learned that manga drawings are shrunk to 81% when they are printed. The same amount by which original drawings were reduced when turned into woodblock prints in the Edo period!
Anyway...
Two interpretations of Alice in Wonderland
This by Otomo Katsuhiro, who did Akira. So are these..
...inspired in part by this...
From the 19th century, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
This theatre curtain is unlikely to ever leave it's home again as it is too fragile to travel...
There was a "bookshop" where you could browse and download material in many languages:
A giant head...
...and more jazz:
I've got another visit on Monday for a lecture, but two posts is enough.
Next we'll go from manga to Munch.
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I think this is awesome. The artwork is really cool. That's interesting that they shrink it 81% I suppose that makes sense though.
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Yeah, I have it in my head that Marvel comics are 50% from artwork, but I could easily be wrong on that.
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Western comics are usually printed at about 66% of the illustrated size. 10” x 15” is common to draw at, with printed comics being about 6.625” x 10.25”
Some artists, like Frank Cho, draw bigger though... like 15” x 22” perhaps, which creates a 50% Print size, but that’s pretty rare.
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Thanks Bryan. One sees those giant format books of some comics these days, which are presumably then blown up, which seems counter-productive.
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I ought to get there for a look. I'm still a relative novice when it comes to #comics, but I can appreciate the impact the images can have even if I can't read the words.
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There was one comic on display - Bounty Hunter - that went for a dozen pages without dialogue, as two horseback riders raced each other and fired their pistols. It's very exciting.
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