HiLobrow：谷岡ヤスジ

2011年8月29日、p-HiLo-sophical blog を自称する HiLobrow が
Gary Panter による谷岡ヤスジのトリビュートを掲載。
日本人に関する記事は珍しい。
リンク先で日活が映画化した谷岡作品「ヤスジのメッタメタガキ道講座」を動画（部分：10分弱）で見られます。


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＜以下引用＞
Please try to visualize a drawn Japanese landscape, reduced in the extreme graphically, yet still manifesting the play of mountains, sun, streams, lonely clouds, single trees on vast curving plains, isolated blades of grass where buzz single crickets ? a minimal, linear, world with expanses of white ? significant empty areas in the manner of traditional Japanese woodcuts. Introduce into this black and white pastoral, the already mentioned cricket, a little fish, an eel, a beautiful girl, a horse, a farmer, indentured farm hands, a bulldog with black muzzle and teeth, an occasional turtle, office workers, a few samurai warriors, the artist himself in beret and, lastly, a giant brooding ox smoking a pipe. Further imagine that everyone, but the girl, in this world sprouts big square teeth when they’re angry, and oil-gusher nose-bleeds when horny (a phenomenon, which he named hana-ji bu, that’s now a common device); the males’ balls are hanging out of their pants, a target for the eels, crickets, fish (well, everybody, really) to kick, bite, slit, or dice. Would you believe it’s a mainstream comic strip admired and enjoyed for decades by kids of all ages? No? Try telling that to Japanese gag manga creator YASUJI TANIOKA (1942-99), who from the late 1960s on, created a world in which everyone is victim and aggressor, everything works to universal disadvantage and sexual frustration, and the sound effects are the size of walk-in freezers.
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本文にもあるけど、1942年生まれ、1999年没というのは早世です。