Since the Painting with Water thread is dedicated to fan creations, I took the liberty to make a thread where we can discuss Inoue's art (not necessarily focused on Vagabond), post some stuff or just appreciate it!
I'll start with something based on Aaz's cool thread, Guts' face: graphic evolution and variations.
The Amazing Musashi's face: graphic evolution and variations!
That's one face per non-Kojiro volume, 1-13, and then 21-32!
And now some stuff that's not so easy to find scans of, and I never found them selling anywhere except Italy.
Piercing: he made this between Slam Dunk and Vagabond, it's a one-shot.
Nope, it's not Ueda! Baby Face, also a one-shot. This one kinda reminds me of City Hunter, the first manga he ever worked on as an assistant to Tsukasa Hojo.
This drawing he made as a tribute to another mangaka whose name and work I completely forgot over time, although I'm pretty sure it's from Shonen Jump. I used to know the name and I also had this scan in HUGE quality, but I lost it. If you have it, post up!
Now it's time for something weird. The infamous Inoue Manga Scandals!
People started to accuse him of plagiarism because he used famous pictures as reference for some scenes in Slam Dunk. Big fucking deal, I personally think it's awesome. Look at Miura, is his artwork any less beautiful and original even though we know he uses places and other things that exist in our world as inspiration or reference?
You can check out the pics here: http://www.geocities.jp/slamdunk_trace/
There's more, but it's a bit more difficult to find.
As for real plagiarism, there was a mangaka accused of copying several Slam Dunk panels to her own basketball manga.
She even admitted it and apologized. Her manga was canceled and her career, destroyed.
I can't feel sorry, though. Check out the news, but I couldn't find pics comparing the panels. Post them if you find them!: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-10-19/kodansha-and-suetsugu-apologies
Anyway, I'm sharing stuff I didn't see around here, but please, feel free to post and discuss anything you feel like about his art.
Oh, and if you think of a good name for the thread, share it! This one is too generic, isn't it? Also, should the thread have the spoiler warning or not? I honestly don't know.
I'll start with something based on Aaz's cool thread, Guts' face: graphic evolution and variations.
The Amazing Musashi's face: graphic evolution and variations!
That's one face per non-Kojiro volume, 1-13, and then 21-32!
And now some stuff that's not so easy to find scans of, and I never found them selling anywhere except Italy.
Piercing: he made this between Slam Dunk and Vagabond, it's a one-shot.
Nope, it's not Ueda! Baby Face, also a one-shot. This one kinda reminds me of City Hunter, the first manga he ever worked on as an assistant to Tsukasa Hojo.
This drawing he made as a tribute to another mangaka whose name and work I completely forgot over time, although I'm pretty sure it's from Shonen Jump. I used to know the name and I also had this scan in HUGE quality, but I lost it. If you have it, post up!
Now it's time for something weird. The infamous Inoue Manga Scandals!
People started to accuse him of plagiarism because he used famous pictures as reference for some scenes in Slam Dunk. Big fucking deal, I personally think it's awesome. Look at Miura, is his artwork any less beautiful and original even though we know he uses places and other things that exist in our world as inspiration or reference?
You can check out the pics here: http://www.geocities.jp/slamdunk_trace/
There's more, but it's a bit more difficult to find.
As for real plagiarism, there was a mangaka accused of copying several Slam Dunk panels to her own basketball manga.
She even admitted it and apologized. Her manga was canceled and her career, destroyed.
I can't feel sorry, though. Check out the news, but I couldn't find pics comparing the panels. Post them if you find them!: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-10-19/kodansha-and-suetsugu-apologies
Anyway, I'm sharing stuff I didn't see around here, but please, feel free to post and discuss anything you feel like about his art.
Oh, and if you think of a good name for the thread, share it! This one is too generic, isn't it? Also, should the thread have the spoiler warning or not? I honestly don't know.