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MidJourney
It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]
Crunchryroll Expo Unveils Slate of Anime Movies Streaming in August
To start, Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA and Makoto Shinkai's your name will be launching on Crunchyroll this Thursday Mamoru Hosoda's critically acclaimed catalog of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Wolf Children, and The Boy and the Beast will be heading to our service soon too. Poster art: Crunchyroll New movies started launching on Crunchyroll last Thursday, August 11 and will continue to drop every[...]
Akira: 4K UHD Blu-Ray Coming from Funimation in January 2022
Akira, the seminal Katsuhiro Otomo anime movie adapted from his own apocalyptic cyberpunk manga series that helped put anime on the map in the West back in the 1980s, is getting released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray from Funimation on January 18, 2022 You could say that the anime movies of Akira and Masamune Shiro's Ghost in[...]
Kaneda and Motorcycle Crew, from "Akira" 1988
Anime Expo is currently underway at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and one of the Thursday panels spotlighted the legendary career of Katsuhiro Otomo Major anime buffs may not be familiar with the name, but Otomo is responsible for the manga series that inspired an anime movie that revolutionized the industry That manga (and movie)[...]
Katsuhiro Otomo Wins Grand Prix And Presidency For Angoulême 2016
Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo has won the Grand Prix for Angoulême, recognising a comic book creator's contribution to the artform His acceptance speech is below. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRu112Arjwo[/youtube] Otomo won with 38% of the vote, against Alan Moore and Hermann. A special prize has also been given to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. [...]
Hermann Declines Angoulême Grand Prix – Is It A Lock For Otomo? (UPDATE)
Yesterday, it was announced that the three finalists for the Angoulême Grand Prix award, which celebrates a comic book creator's lifetime contributing to the form, were Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo and Hermann. Moore had previously declined the nomination And yesterday, Hermann also declined the nomination. If Moore continues to reject this year's call, then it looks like[...]
Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo and Hermann Are Angoulême Grand Prix Finalists
Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo and Bill Watterson Moore won but declined to be so honoured, and Watterson was duly voted in. Well, the judges have picked their top three from the long list And it seems that history is repeating itself rather… Sadly not Stan Lee Not this year. And the three finalists are Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo and Hermann. It's unlikely that[...]
stan lee
This year it was won by Bill Watterson, after Alan Moore declined the honour. Nevertheless, he is nominated again, as well as for the first time, Stan Lee! Christophe Blain Christian Binet Charles Burns Daniel Clowes Nicolas de Crécy Pierre Christin Cosey Étienne Davodeau Edika Emmanuel Guibert Hermann Alejandro Jodorowsky Quino Stan Lee Milo Manara Taiyo Matsumoto Lorenzo Mattotti Alan Moore Katsuhiro Otomo Marjane Satrapi Joann Sfar Bill Sienkiewicz Jiro Taniguchi Richard Corben Jean Van Hamme Chris Ware Favourites are Katsuhiro Otomo, after he[...]
Boycott Threatens To Disrupt Angoulême Grand Prix
Binet, Christophe Blain, Charles Burns, Pierre Christin, Daniel Clowes, Richard Corben, Bernard Cosey, Étienne Davodeau, Nicolas de Crécy, Edika, Emmanuel Guibert, Hermann, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Manu Larcenet, Milo Manara, Lorenzo Mattotti, Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo, Quino, Marjane Satrapi, Joann Sfar, Jiro Taniguchi, Jean Van Hamme, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson. But the Academy, who normally vote on[...]