I've been an Anime / Manga fan since I first saw
Astroboy
and
Kimba
on TV in Florida. Since then, I've carried on an interest in Japanese
animation art and transforming robots for years, and was lucky enough to
spend 18 months in
Yokota
back in 1974, while I was in the US Air Force. I got watch stuff like
"Mighty
Raideen",
Casshan,
Gatchaman
right off TV... ![]()
Seems like about 2 years after I got back, that it all the things I enjoyed overseas seemed to follow me
back to the US. I'd enjoyed the exploits of the "Lovely Angels"
("Dirty
Pair") for many years, and have been drawing Kei and Yuri with pen and
ink, and even on an old CGA drawing program. Needless to say, these
books / videos were 'grey market' imports, and most weren't translated... I was delighted when I heard there was going to be a new comic book based
on them.
"Biohazards" was the most sexy and purely fun comic I'd read in years...
Adam
Warren's rendition of "The Pair" is by far my favorite one, and he's
come to be on of my favorite american "anime" artists. I've bought
nearly every issue of the
"Dirty
Pair" comic, and most of the rest of Adam's work that I could find, since
then... Many folks got involved with Anime fandom as a result
of Carl Macek's importation / translation of the three
series
Macross,
Southern
Cross, and
Mospeda... You may know the series better by it's US name,
Robotech. It was and still is good, but now seems dated in comparison to newer movies
and tv shows. My favorite Anime "series" of all time has to be Bubblegum Crisis... I bought the VHS cassettes from AnimEigo via mail order, long before it got popular, and started showing up in retail stores. I was really pleased when Adam Warren tackled the Knight Sabers in his "Grand Mal" series. As with "The Dirty Pair", Adam caught the flavor of the series well (tho his Priss was a little more seamy than I expected) and the book turned out to be a real treat. Dennis Moul has a great page on the comics, with pictures of the covers. I used to draw art based on many of these shows; you can see it on this page. |