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The Sportsmen

 

The Sportsman

The manga titled “Monster Hunter Orage” was published jointly by the Japanese publisher Kodansha and the Japanes video game company Capcom in April 2008. The author of this manga is artist Hiro Mashima know for his first serial, the 1999 to 2005 “Rave Master”, and his best selling work, the 2003 to 2017 “Fairy Tail”. Mashima’s “Monster Hunter Orage” was based on the video game franchise “Monster Hunter (モンスターハンター, Monsutā Hantā)”, a successful franchise that was released for PlayStation 2 in 2004.

There are four volumes total in “Monster Hunter Orage” with the last volume published on May 4, 2009. An English release of the series first took place on June 28, 2011. Elements from “Monster Hunter” were later included in the World Unite comic crossover from Archie Comics which featured several other Capcomand Sega franchises making guest appearances in the previously running “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Mega Man” comic lines.

The image above is based on the Japanese series “Monster Hunter, illustrated by a group of artists among whom is the artist known as Hisroshi Yorsoï (aka KFutaba and Tachigumi).

Felix d’Eon

Nautical Art by Felix d’Eon

Felix d’Eon was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, to a French father and a Mexican mother. At a very young age, he and his family moved to Southern California, where he spent most of his childhood and adolescence. He attended college at the Academy of Art University, in San Francisco. He lived in San Francisco until 2010 when he returned to his native Mexico. He now lives in Mexico City with his mini schnauzer, Caperucita Satori.

He is enraptured by various art-historical styles, such as Edwardian fashion and children’s book illustration, Golden-Era American comics, and Japanese Edo printmaking. In his work, he attempts to make the illusion of antiquity complete, using antique papers and careful research as to costume, set, and style. His goal is perfect verisimilitude.

Felix d’Eon subverts their “wholesome” image and harnesses their style to a vision of gay love and sensibility. D’Eon treats vintage illustrative styles as a rhetorical strategy, using their language of romance, economic power, and aesthetic sensibility as a tool with which to tell stories of historically oppressed and marginalized queer communities.