Tsutomu Nihei - Blame! and so on

While we're on the subject of Tsutomu's art I think this would be the perfect time to provide you with his artbook of Blame! and some other things he did along the way.

The greatest thing that I love about this artbook is that most of the Blame! related artwork is colored. This gives a nice insight in how the author imagined all this and it definitely gives it a lot more organic feel. It's too bad none of the colored images made it into the manga aside from the front covers. There are also some different art styles here which seem much like oil paintings (or something like that, I'm not exactly an expert on art) and they are absolutely astonishing. I especially love this one:

Along with Blame!, as the title suggests, there's other art which aren't Blame! related. The first being his weird venture into American comics by doing art for Wolverine. I have no idea why he did that (on a side note he also did a short Halo comic for some reason) but I guess he likes those things although they never really impacted his original stories. Along with that you get some art from Noise and from a few of his other comics, sketches of characters and stuff like that. There's a short comic at the end but it's untranslated although you can still manage to understand some of it.

Great artbook, get this.

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