Įxhibition: 'Japanese Culture Viewed Through The Works of Comics Artist Buichi Terasawa and Multimedia' opens in Hong Kong. Online-comics color version of BAT published on SOFTBANK home page INTERNET LABO.Īt the same time, Buichi Terasawa's official home page, Manga Magic Museum established. As of November of 1998, nine volumes are on sale.īuichi Terasawa is made honorary citizen of the City of Dulbuit, Belgium.įirst installment of new COBRA Series entitled 'GALAXY NIGHTS' published in Shueisha's Super Jump. Later, additional volumes are added to the series. Participates in 'CD-ROM MAC Manga Exhibition' with 30 of the best-known comic artists and authors, including Monkey Punch participating.Ī 3DO (3-dimensional object) version of TAKERU ('Fun Project') goes on sale.įirst volume of full-color book versions of 'COBRA', 'COBRA-THE PSYCHOGUN', is released. In 1993, this series is published as a separate volume. The techniques used are featured in 'Macintosh Electronic Brain Comics Techniques' (published by Scholar). The first installment of 'TAKERU', world's first computer graphics comics series, appears in 'Scholar's Comic-Burger!' magazine. In 1991, an additional software work, 'COBRA 2, A Man of Legend' is released. Buichi Terasawa becomes representative director.Ī PC CD-ROM format work, 'COBRA and The Legend of The Black Dragon King' is published by Hudson, has become the forerunner of 'digital manga'.

Using a computer system he developed himself, Terasawa proceeds to create technically advanced works and to attract the attention of the computer graphics industry. The first installment of 'BAT', the first comic book series produced using color computer graphics, appears in Weekly Jump. An animated version for TV 'SPACE COBRA' is broadcast.

Produces and brings to the screen, a movie version of COBRA. The story has an ingenious plot that has made it a best-selling hit mainly among teenage boys that continued for seven years and continues to attract fans. The story of COBRA, a space pirate working for good who cruises the Universe and is the main character in this hard-boiled science fiction, a cyber character. Going independent, a new comic series called 'COBRA', drawn by Buichi Terasawa appears in Shueisha's weekly comic book for boys,'Jump'.

Buichi Terasawa comes to Tokyo and begins working under the tutelage of the famous comics artist, Osamu Tezuka.

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