Cycles Coming in Cycles?
Wednesday, May 7. 2014
Osamu Tezuka is considered to be the father of manga, as he was primarily responsible for its development after WWII. His work was inspired by Carl Barks, an artist at Disney who was widely regarded as "The Good Duck Artist" thanks to a unique style and seemingly bottomless well of ideas for expanding Duckburg (which in itself was another invention of Barks).
Nearly 30 years later, manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori created the series Kamen Rider, featuring a creature-themed superhero that rode a motorcycle. In the live action series, the first of those motorcycles was a Suzuki T20 with dual headlights, a bubble windshield, and multiple side pipes flaring out on either side of the rear wheel...a design very much like what a creature-themed superhero from Disney rode starting in the 1990s:
I have no idea if Kamen Rider's original Cyclone was really the inspiration for Darkwing Duck's Ratcatcher, but it's fun to think that the artists at Disney were inspired by the genre that one of their founding members indirectly created.
Nearly 30 years later, manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori created the series Kamen Rider, featuring a creature-themed superhero that rode a motorcycle. In the live action series, the first of those motorcycles was a Suzuki T20 with dual headlights, a bubble windshield, and multiple side pipes flaring out on either side of the rear wheel...a design very much like what a creature-themed superhero from Disney rode starting in the 1990s:
I have no idea if Kamen Rider's original Cyclone was really the inspiration for Darkwing Duck's Ratcatcher, but it's fun to think that the artists at Disney were inspired by the genre that one of their founding members indirectly created.
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