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by Hisashi Eguchi, いしかわ じゅん, 和田 誠

今回の特集「1979 COMIC REVOLUTION」とは、つまり、「ニューウェーブ(マンガの)」です。
江口寿史×浦沢直樹対談、いしかわじゅん×村上知彦対談の二本立。

あれはまさしく「革命」、または「ルネッサンス」だった。
もう一度、マンガを(もちろん一般の本や雑誌も含めて)を自分たちに取り戻すために、この時期を考えてみた。

136 pages, 雑誌

First published August 14, 2009

About the author

Hisashi Eguchi (江口寿史 , Eguchi Hisashi), is a Japanese illustrator, manga creator and animation concept artist. Eguchi is considered one of Japan's most prominent illustrators of female characters. He has been nicknamed 'king of pop', for the strong influence of pop-art in the evolution of his drawing style.
Eguchi was born in the Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto in 1956. He started his career and earned fame as a gag manga cartoonist in the late 70's. After winning the 1977 Young Jump Award, Eguchi serialised his first comic series Susume!! Pirates in the pages of 'Weekly Shōnen Jump' from 1977 to 1980. His next and most famous comic series, Stop!! Hibari-kun!, was serialized in the same magazine from 1981 to 1983. The manga is a romantic comedy where the main female character, Hibari, is a cross-dressing teenager boy. It was adapted into an anime by Fuji Television in 1983-1984.
In the animation field, Eguchi worked as a character designer for the movies Roujin Z, Spriggan and Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue.
Nowadays Eguchi mostly keeps himself occupied as an illustrator for Japanese magazines and advertisement.