TaiyÅ Matsumoto
Taiyo Matsumoto (Japanese松本 大洋, Taiyo Matsumoto, born October 25, 1967 in the prefecture of Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. His works are aimed primarily at an adult audience and the His - genus assign.
Biography
Taiyo Matsumoto wanted to be a football player, but decided after reading of Katsuhiro Otomo's manga The suicide paradise pursue a career as a cartoonist, and only began during his literary studies at Wako University to seriously draw comics. As he admired the comic artist Seiki Tsuchida and this worked for the manga magazine Morning, he decided in 1986 to send its initial work on this magazine. The Kodansha publishing house wanted to establish at this time a sister magazine of the Morning, Afternoon, and was looking for new talent for this. Matsumoto won the 1987 Young Investigator Award of the afternoon, the Shiki prize, and soon released his first work as a professional manga artist with Straight. In this comic, he dealt with the baseball sport.
In the late 1980s, after the release of his debut work, he went to Europe to report for Morning on the Paris-Dakar Rally. In Europe, he gained new influences and found primarily in French comics inspiration in terms of his drawing technique. As a model looks Matsumoto especially Miguelanxo Prado but also Moebius and Enki Bilal. The heavily modified by the Europe travel style he employed in the manga series Zero, which he for the Big Comic Spirits magazine created in 1991. Then brought the Shogakukan publishing house, for he currently works, the manga in book form out. As already presented in the author Straight people, practicing a discipline, in the foreground of the story, this time the boxes. Also for Big Comic Spirits, he recorded the following year, the 700 pages in three books comprehensive Hanaotoko, which, as already straight, focused on baseball.
It was followed by the short story collection Aoi Haru. In most of the seven stories contained Matsumoto describes the lives of high school students who feel oppressed by the hard school system of Japan. The figures are modeled partially former classmates of the signatory. One of the short stories in Aoi Haru he drew in collaboration with the famous comic book writer Caribu Marley. Another collection of short stories was published by Matsumoto Magazine House 1995 Nihon no Kyodai. Some of the nine manga short stories in Nihon no Kyodai were previously in the manga magazine Comic Are! published.
The breakthrough came with the manga series Tekkon Kinkreet, which until 1994 in about 600 pages in Big Comic Spirits ran from 1993 and subsequently appeared in three anthologies; the anthologies sold in Japan about a million times. Add Tekkon Kinkreet Matsumoto paints a picture of two boys who fight for power by force in a city in the near future. The manga was made into a stage play and 2006 as an award- winning anime film.
From 1996 to 1997 Shogakukan brought out five volumes of his manga series Ping Pong. These had been previously unpublished unusual for manga in a magazine, but came out the same in book form. For the first time since Hanaotoko he devoted himself with Ping Pong again a sports manga. This was nominated in 1997 and 1998 for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize - comprises about 1000 pages and was, like Aoi Haru filmed. Following the publication of the two Artbooks 100 and 101 and the single band Go Go Monster, who won the Prize of the Association of Japanese comic artist in 2001, Matsumoto concentrated on his longest work to date, Number Five. The 1100 -page in eight books manga series from 2000 to 2005 to read in Ikki magazine. The science fiction thriller set in a desert landscape in the future. Since 2006, Taiyo Matsumoto is working with Issei Eifuku to the manga Samurai Takemitsu.
His work is translated into English and French. 2004 and 2006 he was nominated for ping pong or Go Go Monster on the French Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême in the category Best drawings.
Matsumoto is married to the cartoonist Saho Tono. His cousin Santa Inoue is also a well-known mangaka.
Works
- Straight (ストレート, Sutorēto ), 1987
- Zero, 1991
- Hanaotoko (花 男), 1992
- Aoi Haru (青い 春), 1993
- Tekkon Kinkreet (鉄 コン 筋 クリート, Tekkon Kinkurīto ), 1993-1994
- Nihon no Kyodai (日本 の 兄弟), 1995
- 100, 1995
- Ping Pong (ピンポン, Pinpon ), 1996-1997
- 101, 1999
- Go Go Monster ( GOGOモンスター, GOGO Monsutā ), 2000
- Number Five (ナンバー ファイブ, Namba Faibu ), 2000-2005
- Takemitsu Samurai (竹 光 侍), since 2006