Nerd Alert: Original Tatsumi for Sale, any takers?

[franseen]

This is not a drill. From Mistuhiro Asakawa's collection. 


www.ebay.com/sch/sahkha/m.html

[BubblesZine]

I got this one. Wow you never see this kind of stuff come up for sale. Pretty cool!!

[grubcubman]

It's hard to pick! Thanks for the heads up -- this is really cool stuff.

[BubblesZine]

He took them all down because he was getting too many messages haha. I hope he puts them back up one by one.

[skoden]

What were the prices?

[teemcgee]

Nov 24, 2021 22:41:46 GMT skoden said:

What were the prices?

 

$200 a page!

[griffen]

While walking to my room to go to bed at 1:00am, I checked eBay and the first two sets of these were up. Ended up waiting until everything was posted and managed to grab 5 pages. Mistuhiro Asakawa was extremely nice and informative in our messages back and forth and dropped that he would mail the pages out on his way to go see Yoshiharu Tsuge in Tokyo the next day. Ended up getting to bed at 5:30am.

Pages arrived today and just can't believe it, Tatsumi has been a favorite since that first Drawn & Quarterly book came out in 2005, when I was working at Borders in Chicago and purchased it with my monthly store credit.

Attachments:

[griffen]

Final two.

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[wigshop]

Gosh I'm so jealous. Was late to this but am eying eBay and will be ready should the seller wish to relist anything.

[BubblesZine]

Wow five! That's amazing. I heard Asakawa sold too many to fast and got annoyed by all the messages, which he require to purchase haha, so he took them all down. I wonder if he'll put any back up. Pretty amazing to be able to own one of these. So little manga art is out there for sale, especially by artists we actually know and love. I mean the Billy Ireland owns one Tezuka piece, that's it.

I got mine in the mail yesterday, here's some close ups on it and the back. I always love to see the backsides of pieces like this.






And so I can remember here's the ebay description:

Description
I believe this is the first time on eBay to listing the original art of Japanese Gekiga Originator YOSHIHIRO TATSUMI.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:
BuyItNow price is for ONE page of these ten different originals. Let me know the exact page you want to purchase after (or before) you click BIN. When some of the listings were sold, I will replace the image with "SOLD OUT" notification.

This one of a kind piece was originally published in 1962 from Tokyo Top Sha. The Title of this story is オリにかえれ (Go Back to the Cage), written in May, 1962, then had been published as a newly drawn story collection for book-lending shops which was popular in Japan from the late 1950s to early 1960s.

At that time, these original drawings were outright purchase by the publisher.

Many of the originals were cut and sent to the readers as a direct sales service.

I purchased these pages about 30 years ago from the collector who had directly purchased them from the publisher.

This is one page of the total 138 pages story.

Not a complete set, so I decided to sell them individually.

Bulk purchase of the museums or galleries are welcome. But the offer must be done before someone bid the each page of my listings.In my opinion, this kind of art piece should be belonged in the public museum of Japanese Manga. But as you might know, the Japanese government reckons Manga as an "economic weapon" of Japanese culture so called "cool contents", and they don't care about the original drawings of Manga as an art.

Manga is not only for the entertainment. I believe that Manga is one of the strongest artistic expressions which can be reached by anyone's mind without any differences of religion, culture, race or language. Don't miss a chance to get the piece of Manga/Gekiga art in history!

Frame size: Approx. 150 mm x 216 mm
Original paper size : Approx. 205 mm x 290 mm (however, paper size of each page varies due to the printer who cut the blank space to make a film as many as possible at once)

As you can see on the pics. What you see is what you get.

[BubblesZine]

Griffen, check it out. One of the pages from that crowd scene you own can be seen here: page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/q293988393



 

[griffen]

Wild that's why he pulled the rest off. He was nice in all our correspondence and it was above and beyond. Like he was telling me little anecdotes, about his background and stuff. Hopefully he puts them up again so more people can get some.

Brian those close ups are cool. Mine too, all have glued newspaper(?) on the back in the same spot. Also of note for process heads: 

- All pages are ruled with small pin punches and pencil, and the panels in some that take up two rows have been erased so it seems these were all pre gridded.
- From what I can make out is there is a light non-photo blue on the paper that seems painted on and it's what becomes grey in the book. - There is pencil drawing under the ink with both lead and red colored pencil. - He used both ink and a thick marker for the heavy letters and some fill ins.

Thanks for the reference! I saw the same pages on another site and they seem to be the only shots I could find from the book. Gotta hunt down a copy that will ship to the US!

[BubblesZine]

You Griffen! Thanks to the great Mangaberg I got a copy of this book and took photos of the pages we bought. Enjoy!!

[griffen]

Holy guacamole! Brian, you and Mangaberg are a couple of princes. This rules! Thanks so much for sharing.

[griffen]

For anyone who was interested the remaining pages have just been put back up on eBay, same price.

Hurry up seems like they are going fast!