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Shõnen Jupiter | Jiro Kuwata | pg.5
Shõnen Jupiter | Jiro Kuwata | pg.5
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Boy Jupiter by Jiro Kuwata
size : 27,3 x 39,2 cm
Jiro Kuwata (1935-2020), a post-war drawing prodigy who signed his first project at thirteen in 1948, became instrumental in Japan's weekly manga magazine boom. In 1966, capitalizing on the success of ABC's Batman TV series, publisher Shōnen Gahōsha acquired Japanese rights and entrusted Kuwata with adapting the character for Shōnen Gaho and Weekly Shōnen King magazines from 1966-1967.
To adapt Bob Kane's creation, Kuwata applied Tezuka's foundational principles, creating a subtle synthesis of golden-age comics and manga techniques. This success wasn't accidental. For nearly a decade, Kuwata had been perfecting his craft through original Japanese superheroes inspired by Tezuka but with distinctly comic book influences: Phantom Detective - Maboroshi Tantei (1957), Moonlight Mask (1958), predating America's Moon Knight by fifteen years, X-Man (1960), Esper 3 (1964), Boy Jupiter (1965), and the famous 8 Man (1963-1965), scripted by Kazumasa Hirai and resembling Astro Boy.
Kuwata's Batman work was imported to America by David Mazuchelli and Chip Kidd in 2008, demonstrating the lasting impact of his East-West superhero fusion.
size : 27,3 x 39,2 cm
Jiro Kuwata (1935-2020), a post-war drawing prodigy who signed his first project at thirteen in 1948, became instrumental in Japan's weekly manga magazine boom. In 1966, capitalizing on the success of ABC's Batman TV series, publisher Shōnen Gahōsha acquired Japanese rights and entrusted Kuwata with adapting the character for Shōnen Gaho and Weekly Shōnen King magazines from 1966-1967.
To adapt Bob Kane's creation, Kuwata applied Tezuka's foundational principles, creating a subtle synthesis of golden-age comics and manga techniques. This success wasn't accidental. For nearly a decade, Kuwata had been perfecting his craft through original Japanese superheroes inspired by Tezuka but with distinctly comic book influences: Phantom Detective - Maboroshi Tantei (1957), Moonlight Mask (1958), predating America's Moon Knight by fifteen years, X-Man (1960), Esper 3 (1964), Boy Jupiter (1965), and the famous 8 Man (1963-1965), scripted by Kazumasa Hirai and resembling Astro Boy.
Kuwata's Batman work was imported to America by David Mazuchelli and Chip Kidd in 2008, demonstrating the lasting impact of his East-West superhero fusion.
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