Yûshi (Bank Loan)
On gay adult comic anthology ‘BTM Employer & TOP Employee’ (private publishing), August 10, 2019
BTM Employer & TOP Employee is a private publishing (Doujin) book of gay adult short comic collection by four popular gay comic artists, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Satoru Sugajima, Kazuki Minamoto and me.
Samples.
You can order at Rainbow Shoppers from outside Japan from the link below.
Rainbow Shoppers: BTM EMPLOYER & TOP EMPLOYEE[ reservation Limited offer]
Shin Deka Modoki (False Detective – Resurgence): Geibôi (Fancy Homosexual Boy), Chapter 1
Tezucomi volume 9, June 5, 2019, on sale
It’s my new for-all-age comics and also dedicated work for Osamu Tezuka. Tezucomi series were published as the 90th birth anniversary of Tezuka, and various modern manga artists are publishing their dedicated comics based on Tezuka’s works. [REFERENCE]
I picked up his discontinued series ‘Deka Modoki (False Detective)’ what was published in early 70’s and was interrupted for only two chapters. It was collected short stories of a detective and a scammer become an odd partner and solve murder cases. They both are men but living together and the scammer might love in the detective. [REFERENCE] I really love their relationship and had been regretting the series was discontinued, so am going to write the sequel by myself to add an element of underground gay cultures in 60’s Japan.
‘My Brother’s Husband’ is shown on British Museum’s Manga exhibition from May 23rd to August 26th, 2019.
More detail is here.
I’ll go to London to join a private view of the exhibition, and will be on talk event at Japan House London on May 22nd.
More detail is here.
If you are in London, don’t miss the exhibition and the event!
My new for-all-ages gay comics Bokura No Shikisai (Our Colors) is translated into French and will be published in digital format as one-by-one chapter style ahead of paper book edition.
French title is ‘Our Colorful Days’, and the first chapter was already published on April 18.
Paper book edition will be published on 2020.
More detail, please check the publisher’s webpage on the link below.
Akata: Annonce : Our Colorful Days débarque en simultrad!
Now I’m showing 4 bloody male nude art prints on a group exhibition ‘Cruel & Beauty’ at Vanilla Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo.
無残絵展 (exhibition of cruel images) – cruel and beauty –
February 19th (Tue) – March 3rd (Sun)
Vanilla Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
[Website] [Map] [Facebook]
Artists: Gengoroh Tagame, Hajime Sorayama, Hiroaki Samura, Shintaro Kago, Shou Tajima and others
with special exhibition – Bloody Ukiyoe of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Fee: 500 yen
Talk Show: Violence & Catharsis of Tukioka Yoshitoshi’s works
Gengoroh Tagame & Kenji Hinohara (chief curator of Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
February 23rd 17:30 – 19:00 (door open 17:20)
Fee: 2,000 Yen (+ 1 drink) [ticket purchase]
