Satoshi Kon’s Opus (light wear)
Satoshi Kon’s: Opus, translated by Zack Davisson / ISBN 9781616556068 / 384-page paperback from Dark Horse Manga, b/w art / light wear from inbound shipping
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Brilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of 46. Before he became a director, he was a manga artist, and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kon’s OPUS, an omnibus collection of a two-volume manga from 1996, created by Kon on the eve of his first film.
OPUS contains the mastery of both realism and surrealism that would make Kon famous in Perfect Blue, as a manga artist becomes drawn into his own work and realizes the deadline he’s up against is to stop a vicious serial killer before he can spill more innocent blood–not merely ink!
Satoshi Kon was born on October 12, 1963. While in college, at the Musashino Art University, Kon made his debut as a manga artist with the short manga Toriko (1984) and earned a runner-up spot in Kodansha’s 10th Annual Tetsuya Chiba Awards. Afterward, he found work as Katsuhiro Otomo’s assistant. Kon is credited by some, including TIME Magazine, as one of the faces most responsible for bringing Japanese pop-culture to America. His feature length films Perfect Blue, Paprika, Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers We’re all distributed in theaters across the States and saw critical acclaim worldwide earning a number of awards in the process. Satoshi Kon was listed as one of TIME Magazine’s 2010 People of the Year. Winner of the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya 2003 – Best Animated Film Academy Award submission 2003 for Millennium Queen Winner of the Public’s Choice Award 35th Montreal New Cinema Award for Paprika Winner of the Best Feature Film Award at the 8th Newport Beach Film Festival Kon died on August 24, 2010 at the age of 46.
