As you know after having read his profile, Tetsuya Chiba is the man behind the pencils of the great spokon (tough masculine sports story) manga masterpiece Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe). Ashita no Joe marked a whole generation. It’s actually hard to find 50-something-year-old Japanese men who didn’t follow the story of stormy boxer [...]
In today’s video we will see master of manga Tetsuya Chiba (read his profile here) drawing an illustration of Joe, the main character of manga masterpiece Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe).
Note how Chiba does an awesome job with iconic Joe. He even bothers to paint the hat! I bet he has had [...]
Name: Tetsuya Chiba
In Japanese: ちばてつや
Born when: January 11th, 1939 (71 years old at the time of the interview)
Born where: Tsukiji, Tokyo
Debut: 1956 (17 years old), with Fukushū no semushi otoko (The vengeful hunchback).
Main works: Ashita no Joe (with Asao Takamori), Notari Matsutarō, Ichi Ni San to Shi Go Roku, Harris no kaze, Shidenkai no Taka, Chikai [...]
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