Manga at the British Museum drawings by Hoshino Yukinobu

Manga at the British Museum drawings by Hoshino Yukinobu

Kdy:	09 února 2012, čtvrtek 10:00
Kde:	Britské muzeum
Adresa:	British Museum, Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3DG
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An exclusive opportunity to see the original drawings from the manga series Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure.

Hoshino Yukinobu (b.1954) is the creator of Professor Munakata, one of Japan's most famous manga characters. Millions of readers eagerly following his adventures in the fortnightly magazine, Big Comic.

Hoshino first visited the British Museum in 2009 and was inspired to work on a Professor Munakata mystery in the unique setting of the Museum. Japanese readers followed the series for five months, first published in Big Comic, before the thrilling mystery was bought to a close with a dramatic final scene that sees the Rosetta Stone in grave danger.

All ten episodes will now be published as a book in English by the British Museum Press, and to celebrate, Hoshino has lent the Museum his finished drawings (genga) and sketches and even two of his fude brush pens which he used to draw this adventure.

In this display you can see the development of Professor Munakata's British Museum Adventure from conception to finished work. This is an exceptionally rare opportunity to uncover the process of how the first British Museum manga was created.


Official Link:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/...