Shinobu Kaze

Shinobu Kaze was influences heavily by French artist Philippe Druillet and found his creative home among Japanese and American Science Fiction fans. As a manga artist Kaze Shinobu has a pretty unique approach to his transdimensional material. He opens up his subconscious and draws what appears to him without plan or pause. Its a kind of automatic drawing. Maybe his editors press for changes later on in the process but fundamentally thats his method. Apparently he holes himself up in a purposemade cardboard pyramid to give the astral juices a chance to flow. With his psychedelic color sense and oddball drawing habits you might reasonably suspect that Kazes creative processes are chemically assisted. But thats actually not the case. His trances are naturally induced. To reach them he lives a healthy almost monkish existence. Hes practically a vegetarian which is very rare indeed in todays Japan oddly enough given its vegetarian past. Source: Comi Press