| | |  | NARUTO | Home » » » Water (Vagabond Illustration Collection) | | | | | | | Description: | | Water features Inoue s masterful work in color. It also highlights artwork created specifically for this volume. In a recent interview, Takehiko Inoue claimed that in his first major follow-up to Slam Dunk, he wanted to delve as deeply as possible into visual artistry. The result was the incredibly realized world of Vagabond, the Sistine Chapel of manga. This artbook captures the very best of Inoue's work, with images hand-selected by Inoue himself. Not one to skimp on color and image quality, Inoue also hand selected the specific printer. Water features Inoue s masterful work in color. It also highlights artwork created specifically for this volume. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Takehiko Inoue | | Turtleback:
| 157 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| September 16, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1421520583 | | Product Length:
| 11.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 8.9 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.2 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
A showcase of manga prowessNov 24, 2008
By Parka
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3KGALA4S41AZ3 The edition published by Viz Media is soft cover with a dust jacket. But the cover is actually quick thick and hardy. There are 164 pages to give this book a nice thickness.
This is the art book by Inoue Takehiko. It's based off the manga Vagabond. If you like the manga and the water colour section that starts each comic, this book is definitely for you. It contains many water coloured full page illustrations, some of which comes from panels and covers from the comic book.
These water colour paintings, when blown up to full page, show an incredible amount of detail. I'm talking about details like the kind of texture created when water colour touches paper and the gradation. The colour reproduction on the book is perfect. Every page is a delight.
This book has no captions. It doesn't need them.
Fans of Inoue Takehiko or his comic should find this book very satisfying.
There are two art books released based on the Vagabond comic. This is one of them. The other is called Sumi: Vagabond Illustration Collection which contains black and white line art illustrations. Check out the my review for Sumi too.
(More pictures are available on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
The Da Vinci of ComicsSep 15, 2008
By R. Marisi
"Mareasy"
Before having this set of artbooks in my sweaty, trembling hands, I used to think that Takehiko Inoue was one of the greatest comic artist of the last couple of decades. Now I see what a fool I was: Inoue is in fact the best comic artist of all time.
No Katsuhiro Otomo, no Moebius, no Manara, no Frank Miller (in the good old days), no Bradstreet, no Kirby, no Breccia (Sr), no Tezuka, no Lee, no Hitch, no Cassaday or Quitely can top this unleashed beast of pencils, inks and brushes that Takehiko Inoue is.
This man is the Leonardo Da Vinci of comics.
Now let's talk about the editions, and let's talk about the set of them, because it's nonsense to only buy one, you have to have both.
These editions are from another planet. And that's it. Never before have I seen such a printing quality in my life. The definition and sharpness of those images will just cut you to the very bone, just as deep Musashi would. The effort that the people of Viz put in these books is really commendable: the moment I opened them I was struck by an intensity of black so pure and strong that I felt I was looking at the fu**ing originals.
And the COLORS... I won't even talk about the colors, because there is no point in describing them: I could waste an entire dictionary of adjectives and never get close to make justice to this palette and the quality of its impression. These color, you have to see them for yourself.
I know I may sound excessive, but I repeat you, the quiality of this printings is superior to anything I've seen before (not even in Taschen deluxe editions can beat The Water and The Sumi).
The paper, of course, is beautiful, as white as it gets. And the smells is splendid, too.
Oh, one last thing... these books are not hardcovers. However, the sleeves -of very nice quality- are much more thick than any given paperback. So all in all, it's a perfect edition and this should not frighten you away from getting them. The price is more than fair, believe me, now that I've seen it for myself, I'd be willing to pay for this set with my very own internal organs.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
AwesomeSep 05, 2011
By Aaron
Great art.Includes not only art that was in Vagabond, but included art that I've never seen. This is a purchase that I do not regret buying.
 Vagabond Water ReviewFeb 17, 2011
By Joe
This is an amazing art book. There are a couple of original paintings but they are mostly ones that appear in the series. If you're an artist looking at techniques or a hardcore Vagabond fan, this is pretty awesome. It was a bit shorter than I would have liked, and I don't look at the paintings too often, but it is good to look through every once in a while and I would say it is worth the money.
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