FRANK QUITELY Joins us to Explore AKIRA Vol. 5 by Katsuhiro Otomo! EPIC CONVERSATION!

[@TOKYOTOYBANZAI]

I worked at a manga studio here in Japan back in 2005-2007 and apprenticed under the creator of Fist of the North Star, and was an assistant on the prequel, Fist of the Blue Sky. But yeah usually whatever has the cover feature, or is popular, get a few color pages printed. Also, after the initial weekly run of each manga goes out, we would go back and clean up anything that was rushed or rough due to the strict deadlines, and print the fixed versions in the tankobon. A lot of pages were almost completely changed. It was a wild working enviroment. Would love to share my experiences sometime! Cheers guys!!

[@ALbertoDoriguzzi]

Ehi that's sound super interesting! Thanks for sharing it!. ..com'on guys, thumb up on this comment so the guys will see it 😉👍🏻

[@pawel785]

Would love to hear more on the show!

[@MikoDoodles]

You can't just say you were Hara Tetsuo's assistant like it's nothing, tell us more! How much of the backgrounds did you guys do and how much direction for them you got from Hara sensei? How did your work day usually look? How does the job application process work?

[@alexauclair1]

Wow that’s incredible inside baseball

[@TOKYOTOYBANZAI]

@@ALbertoDoriguzzi thanks dude!

[@5colorcowboy]

This one is special … Kayfabe Boys ..marveling at a master’s work while a master overlooks and chimes in his approval We are all at the feet of Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA

[@kamikawakak]

Frank’s back! With Akira! Hell yes! Look guys, you’ve hung, and continue to hang out with my favorite modern artists, Mignola, Darrow, Quitely, so great! The channel has become such a great resource of comic interviews and history ON TOP of just being damn entertaining. Don’t stop!

[@benjenkins819]

Frank Quitely--what a decent human being. He still has joy in comix, and humility in the presence of the masters though he needn't pay deference to any other talent.

[@444WORLD]

wasn’t expecting to see ed interview himself but i’ll take it

[@gauche9999]

do y'all see the moebius influence in otomo's work? Jean giraud's silver surfer does similar massive city destruction. do you think the eyeball on a blindfold was a scanners reference?

[@rudak6718]

Wha? No Tom Scioli? Bummer man, I was hoping for the original Akira trio PLUS a guest! (STILL y’all are the best, I just miss Tom!)

[@sebastianmichaels143]

Such a fabulous series this has become!

[@KygohugZ]

I’ve been waiting for this episode! Cheers fellas

[@Michael-tf8om]

VIN! Man, youse guys are golden!

[@EnterGalacticComics]

WHAT IF... Obi-Wan Kenobi was a CARTOONIST/comic book artist

[@Noils]

At about 1:36:00 when they're looking at the 2 page spread - just before he begins to merge with the jet - I think Jim starts to describe this effect but I love this approach of really rendering out the jet on the right hand page, so that it feels both extremely heavy and imposing against the smaller figure and maybe draws attention to the magnitude of the interaction, but it also jars the reader by slowing down such a fast object and sort of pauses time in the narrative by revealing the detail not perceptible when objects are in motion. I'm probably using too many words to describe, but I love this idea of rendering and detail as a means of managing narrative and reading pace/time.

[@MattJohns54321]

That’s a great point, and something to bear in mind when we’re producing our own art 👍

[@The_Ice_Cream_Police]

Hell yeah, my art hero talking art! Was just recently googling for his art for Bowmore Whisky. Stunning work I couldn't stop staring at.

[@antonydrossos5719]

1:17:30 I can't be the only guy that laughed out loud when "Scott Pilgrim..." lampooned this sequence!

[@nathanielyoung7418]

I love this but...Vol 6 though! It was the first book in the series I read (I found it my middle school library), I'd love to feel that feeling of reading it for the first time again. Good vid guys!

[@johnnydi2203]

Frank Quitely is my favorite comic artist. I hope to see him work with Grant Morrison again. Thanks for all the art, Mr. Quitely. Such a pleasure for the eyes.

[@sublow]

THANK U FOR THIS VIDEO

[@darioscomicschool1111]

48:00 So Well COMPOSED!

[@JPTDco]

What a treat. Thank you for such an inspiring discussion. Please do more episodes with Frank. You three compliment each other so well.

[@crashline]

That jacket is dope Ed.

[@lucasfilappi]

This is awesome, I just read this volume for the first time last week, great talk!

[@MicahBuzanMUSIC]

Yes, so glad these are back! I was hoping to hear your thoughts on the final two volumes of Akira.

[@zeroman614]

great stuff! That building on pg 39 looks to be the Disney World Contemporary Resort.

[@davidaaronartist]

i was redy for issue 6! this is great, blessings guys

[@Mr.Ego.]

Made my sunday better ! Thanks for the vid guys , cheers from Athens Greece !!

[@jbnj11]

Is an episode on “A DISTANT SOIL” by Colleen Doran possible?? She incredible, she writes and draws the book since the 80s when she was in high school. Thanks for the content! Best comics show around!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@SeferinoVelachaques]

not gonna lie, I just click on the video because its says: FRANK QUITELY, but I stay (and susbscribe) 'cause you do a GREAT JOB!

[@oceguera]

DC just released a couple of weeks ago the Poster Portfolio: Frank Quitely. I'm guessing thats a good way to support him right now while waiting for the Millar book. Royalties!

[@fevr5157]

Wonderful

[@Iamthegtard]

Instant bookmark

[@MattJohns54321]

This is probably my favourite video of yours, guys. The fanboy-level drooling over each panel is so relatable, it’s like I’m there with you! And Eddie’s reactions to Otomo’s backgrounds made me chuckle: ‘Those f***ing buildings, man!…’ ; ‘Draw that in a day, Jimmy!’ ! So great to have Frank there with you too- he is the closest thing we have in the West to Otomo imo. So humble and down to earth too, just like Ed and Jim. Thanks for this great read-through, fellas. PS, just picked up Hulk GD Madness and it is epic! Big congrats, Jim!🤟

[@jameslove-vani797]

That jacket aHEEHEEs

[@samankucher5117]

awesome to see Frank 🙂

[@MrSuperbigrich]

Oh fuck yeah!!!! Another hitter! Love you guys

[@drawrobot]

Yes, you can totally do a negative image on some older walk up copiers. I remember that from back in my Stinko’s days.

[@darrylldoucette6895]

Thrilled at the MOTHER SARAH reference. One of my favourite comics of all time.

[@junkdraw]

God damn this channel is the best. Drawing is Life!

[@MrTylerLenaz1]

this is so awesome, thank you guys so much

[@christismellow]

So happy to see things like this!🙏

[@ericmengel]

Aka “the pillow” hahaha

[@Therealmrmeow]

Just awesome!

[@Moonlight_night345]

I love manga and western comics! I support both 💕

[@erictorres3942]

35th anniversary box set is on sell on Amazon for $150 right now.

[@silviorosati2518]

Please do a Berserk episode in the future.

[@ALbertoDoriguzzi]

Uhmmmm damn a great guest! Nice! 😉👍🏻

[@tentsio]

whaaaaaat?!!! Incredible!!!

[@lorcannagle]

I think the first translated manga to keep the original lettering was Neon Genesis Evangelion. Viz offered it in regular and special editions, with the special edition being unflipped with original sound effects. Definintely the first one I remember, and a few years before Mixx/Tokyopop would start doing it as standard.

[@hanktremain]

Hell yeah!!!!!!

[@InfantOfAtocha]

Interesting to see what stuck out to y'all drawing nerds. Akira is a real masterpiece, pretty much unrivaled in scope and execution. If you guys are interested in layout and flow, editing, cuts, transitions, pacing, directing the readers eye, etc. I have a real dark horse candidate for the book that does that the best. Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth, a book that would probably be mostly forgotten if not for a tv show. His art style rubs a lot of people the wrong the way, but I'm talking about mechanical execution of layouts and editing in support of a narrative. Especially when talking about a book with an extended run, nothing I have found does pacing better. I don't think that level of precision could have been possible with a writer/artist team, the subtlety of focus would be so hard to get across in a script. If Akira cribs from Kubrick, Sweet Tooth cribs from Coen Brothers.

[@alexauclair1]

Wow epic indeed

[@RVAlien]

Greatness

[@MrSamfonseca]

4:41 sometimes you flip the drawing and the thing looks like a Picasso :(

[@SethMcFartlane]

Get Katsuhiro Otomo for Vol.6. _Thanks_

[@lakibjornson281]

Dunno if anyone else noticed this but Frank and Ed could be long lost cousins😂

[@geminisundone]

Great artist.

[@vuillardetbonnard2561]

Amazing trick of the trade revealed by Otomo during a public event at Angoulème in 2016 (in japanese and french). Incredible to learn how Otomo created personalized screentones after Gustave Doré's book of prints 'Don Quixote' to draw various textures and shadings in Akira. (at 1 hour 05 minutes in this video -->) kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJW7laylo5qFjZosi=g81V5bIizBn0xbtH

[@LLKoolJosh]

I enjoy a good katsuhiro otomo episode

[@demonknight3986]

Wtf I see 2 Ed Piskors

[@TheBump45]

Fastest I’ve ever clicked play

[@stoatystoat174]

:)