Hirohiko Araki, Jiro Taniguchi, Mari Yamazaki, Daisuke Igarashi, Katsuya Terada, Shin'ichi Sakamoto as well as non-Japanese artists
The Louvre Museum in Paris has its own comics line, currently with 11 contributing artists, which aims to convey the museum's charms. Most of the comics are by French artists, though Hirohiko Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) has contributed Rohan at the Louvre (pictured below) and Jiro Taniguchi (The Summit of the Gods,The Walking Man) has contributed Guardians of the Louvre.
Now a Louvre comics exhibit is headed to Japan, and five more Japanese artists are contributing their works. The project's website posted preview images:
"Louvre no Neko" (Louvre's Cats) by Taiyo Matsumoto (Sunny, Ping Pong)
This story will run in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original on June 20.
This story will run in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original on June 20.
"Nike" by Daisuke Igarashi (Children of the Sea)
"Ōhi Antoinette, Mona Lisa ni Au" (Queen Antoinette Meets the Mona Lisa) by Shin'ichi Sakamoto (Innocent,Kokou no Hito)
This work ran in the May issue of Shueisha's Grand Jump Premium on Wednesday.
This work ran in the May issue of Shueisha's Grand Jump Premium on Wednesday.
An as-yet-untitled work by Katsuya Terada (Blood: The Last vampire original novel art, The Monkey King)
"Palmyra au musée: Bijutsukan no Palmyra" (Museum of Palmyra) by Mari Yamazaki (Thermae Romae)
Manga creators aren't the only Japanese artists contributing to this exhibit: voice actor Hiroshi Kamiya (Attack on Titan's Levi) will narrate a guide to the exhibit and musician Kenshi Yonezu will contribute the image song "Number Nine."
The exhibit will debut in Tokyo from July 22-September 25 and then move to Osaka from December 1-January 29, Fukoka from April-May 2017, and Nagoya in summer 2017. The exhibit is titled "Louvre No.9 ~Manga, 9-Banme no Geijutsu~" (Comics, the Ninth Art) after the idea that there are nine types of art: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, literature and poetry, plays, films, media arts, and comics.
NBM Publishing has offered previous graphic novels from the Louvre art museum's comics line in English. NBM Publishing released Rohan at the Louvre in 2012 and is listing a mid-April release date for Guardians of the Louvre.
[Via Kai-You]
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