Manga art for sale?

[AB]

In the US, I can find a lot of original comic pages for sale, I meant
the original ones that are hand-drawn and inked by the artists.
However, I don't see any dealer sells the original manga pages in
Japan. I wonder why the Japanese publishers keep all the original
manga pages for. The only stuff that I found are the quick sketches
that the manga artists drawn at conventions for the fans, but these are
hard to come by too...I wish to get an original artwork drawn by Rumiko
Takahashi and Akira Toriyama. It's a lot easier to find American comic
artists' artworks like Mike Mignola or Jim Lee.

[John C. Watson]

in article 3AEE3C50...@vampirehunter.com, AB at

From Toren Smith of Studio Proteus:
<http://www.studioproteus.com/fanqna9804.html?original+art#first_hit>

Fan Feedback April 1998
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Original Art

I was wondering if there is any way to aquire original art from Japanese
creators (particularly Hiroaki Samura)? Do Japanese artists sell their work
(or is it stored away)? If so, could you point me in the right direction? I
would love to get my hands on some, and being from the East Coast I'll
probably never make it out to any of the West Coast conventions. :(

Thanks, and keep up the great work.

--John Pratt
c/o That's Entertainment
244 Park Avenue
Worcester MA, 01609
http//:www.thatse.com
tha...@thatse.com
Mon Apr 13, 1998

Boy, you and me both!! I'd love one of his originals, but unfortunately,
like essentially all manga artists, Samura never sells his artwork.

Too bad, huh?

--Toren

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There's a more pertinent response in a Fan Feedback *somewhere*, but I can't
find it. $#@$%^! The search engine is one of the things on the site that
need to be updated. IIRC, basically, the creators keep it in case they need
to reprint it, amoung other things. Why the film won't suffice, I don't
know. Oh, and to be clear, it's not the publishers who keep the art, it's
the artists.

Ciao,
John

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