this artist came to my attention from a copy of bizarre magazine (japanese fetish magazine, not the juvenile humour uk/usa mag or the classic john willie one) from around 1990, sent to me by masami akita - a five page gallery of a series of 13 drawings of “amputee robot doll bondage” as previewed on the baby art blog last week - the drawings made in 1986, pre-dating the gothic lolita look (straight cut bangs, oversized bows etc) by at least a decade! - quite influential for me as you can see, for example, by my wheelchair amputee girl - i pushed masami akita for more information about the artist but he was fairly dismissive just saying he’s done some manga but they’re no good - hmmm, i think he just hates anything otaku, period: anime and manga are all spurned as rubbish - slightly spurious coming from someone who kinda fits an otaku archetype? - ha, bet i’ll be hated for saying this?! - anyway, the drawings re-found recently while throwing out old books - a bit of googling revealed the artist is (and maybe was) pretty much unknown and unpopular and now forgotten - no doubt almost completely unknown outside japan, even amongst the undergound manga fixated japanophiles - yay! A BABY ART EXCLUSIVE!!! - i thought i’d hold back from mentioning the artist’s name to stop anyone now fighting to get hold of his books before i could quietly acquire them myself! - but too late! - my post was reprinted on a very popular japanese art blog yesterday - so now it’s going tp be impossible to get his manga for a while i suspect - at least i managed to get one (which could be his best?) before my bubble popped - …sigh!…
…i actually got to see the original artwork of the bizarre magazine drawings - they fell (!) into the hands of a writer/musician who shall remain nameless (no, not masami akita) along with a lot of other original and valuable artworks by other artists which bizarre magazine failed to return to the respectful owners - disgraceful but of course typical!
Ten years before Gothic Lolita, but two years after Blade Runner…. http://i27.tinypic.com/nn39xi.jpg
Priss is the original creepy android love doll.
eeek, no, that’s ten years after ziggy stardust!
before gothic lolita, before itsuki, before priss, before ziggy, there was of course
that link leads to a Japanese farmer who appears to be wearing a haystack, and his thick legged wife? I see some vague resemblance to Ziggy, tho…
(I still say Priss was the influence for this particular art, because Blade Runner was so Gojira big in Japan.)
urgh! - guess i forgot - links are now illegal on the internet - my comment amended - sorry
Bellmer is an evidence for many & Itsuki Takashi is in the vein
Thanks TB
for the information dolls thema is also in the new Bernhart exibition
Wow, that looks quite awesome. I would love to see those images a bit bigger as a lot of detail is lost in those tiny scans. Anyways, thanks for posting these.
yeah, sorry for small scans - i do everything 500 pixels wide for this blog
i picked up one of his other manga, “schizoid” (quite cheaply!) - it’s more cartoonish and far more commercial, so not so good (interesting to note his books have uncensored depictions of genitals!) - i’m pretty sure now “mama” is his best - it’s obviously a personal work, more experimental and bizarre
Man i need to read that manga.
Are you living in Japan or something?