Mississippi is a Japanese
manga painter and illustrator.
He was born in Osaka in
1972, although he currently
lives and works in Kyoto. He
studied American literature
at the University of Kyoto.
Mississippi has shown his
work at dozens of individual
and collective exhibitions in
Japanese galleries and also in
Paris (New Galerie de France
in Paris), Germany (Druck
Dealer, in Hamburg) and The
Netherlands (Ars Aemula
Naturae, in Leiden).
Mississippi (Takashi Horiguchi)
www.mississippi-kyoto.com
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571 Where do the ideas for your draWings
come from? hoW do you do your research? The
ideas come from my every day life. But visiting
unknown places is also a good way to get new
ideas. I love driving alone.
572 W
hat is the first thing you do before
sitting doWn to draW? Smoke.
573 W
hat are your favorite tools or draWing
programs, and Why? Pencil, ink and sumi (Japanese
ink). They are easy to get, and I love to mix up
them all. I love to see the differences on their
surface.
5 74 d
o you prefer the classic guidelines
from manga or experimenting With neW channels?
Experimenting. I do manga, and I do fine art as
well. Sometimes I feel like using my manga skills
on my fine art, and sometimes I feel like using
my fine art skills in my manga works.
575 W
hat differentiates you from manga’s other
illustrators? In fact, I don’t read manga a lot. I
learned American literature at university. That’s
the point, maybe.
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580 What is the greatest acknoWledgement you
could hope to achieve for your Work? I have a few
reliable friends in my town. They have a real eye for
what’s beautiful. Their applause would be the best
prize for me.
576 hoW important is promotion to you? hoW
do you promote your Work? Of course promotion
is very important, I often do some artwork for
my local community, shop cards or store signs.
That’s my favorite way to promote my works.
577 W
hat has changed about your style of
draWing since you began? At the beginning of my
career, I liked only to make drawings of figures,
but nowadays I also love to draw scenes.
578 m
anga: is it art? Why not? I hope that
art fans read more manga, and that manga fans
enjoy more art. I’m editing a magazine named
Kyoco
that is a mixture of manga and art.
579 W
hat good habits should a comic
illustrator have? Study your town and its people
carefully. After you “get” something from them,
use some alone time. I think that isolation is
necessary to make your imagination grow.
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585 How do you make your drawings come to
life? Some mysterious and strange things are
shimmering in this world. I carefully catch them.
Elaborate colors and brush works are necessary.
581 wHere do tHe ideas for your drawings come
from? How do you do your researcH? Illustration: In
books, chose the most impressive subject in the
story and re–create it in pictures. Original: Every
ordinary thing carry something extraordinary.
582 w
Hat does your work desk look like?
w
Hat can we come across? Favorite tools, colors,
unfinished works and a Macbook. Around them,
my cats are sleeping and in heaven.
583 d
o you always use tHe same tools or do
you cHange depending on tHe piece you’re working
on? Illustration: acrylic on paper and submitted
digitally. Original: acrylic or oil on canvas,
sometimes patted with textiles to give it an
interesting appearance.
584 d
o you prefer tHe classic guidelines from
m
anga or experimenting witH new cHannels? My
work is not typical manga style. Nevertheless, in
my work there is a sense of Japanese cuteness,
kawai
, the essence of manga, I think. So if I had
to choose, it would be a kind of new channel,
maybe?
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586 How important is promotion to you?
H
ow do you promote your work? Websites, the
Illustration File
book (an annual of Japanese
illustrators), the solo exhibitions and the New
Year cards. Honestly, I am not great with it.
587 w
Hat Has cHanged about your style of
drawing since you began? I started drawing my
works monochrome, and gradually changed to
colorful acrylics. Now I make them simple again.
588 m
anga: is it art? The spread of manga
was only possible when Japanese blood met
Western culture. It is not for kids anymore, but
also for all kinds of people in the world. Manga
deserves to be art.
589 w
Hat is tHe most important lesson you
Have learned tHat you would like to pass on to
otHers? Decide your own philosophy. Make your
mirror to reflect the nature of nobody but you.
“Art for people” is misleading. In essence, even
commercial art isn’t a tool for society. It’s a tool
for you.
590 w
Hat is tHe greatest acknowledgement
you could Hope to acHieve for your work? I’ve never
thought of my works as manga. But in fact I’ve
loved it from childhood and once I was a wannabe
manga girl. Does manga live in my works? I’ll
be excited if my work is known globally as “new
manga.”
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