CHIYOJI TOMO (Susumu Tsutsumi, born 1960) Erotic... Lot 189

CHIYOJI TOMO (Susumu Tsutsumi, born 1960) Erotic color plate. India ink, watercolor and gouache on paper. Printed text. Panel from the Kaikan Suteshon story "The Pleasure Station" for an adult story book. Dimensions: 25.4 x 36 cm. Susumu Tsutsumi (real name) began his career as a cartoonist in the 1980s. In his homeland, he alternates pseudonyms, signing Chiyoji Tomo for erotic stories aimed at a male audience and Kaoru Ai for erotic works aimed at a female audience. The founder of La Cúpula publishing house, Josep Maria Berenguer, discovered Chiyoji after a trip to Japan in the 1980s, and negotiated the rights to reproduce his comics. Chiyoji went on to work directly for La Cúpula, no doubt responding to the publisher's more specific orders and adapting to the European comics market. Chiyoji was one of the first mangaka to be published in Europe, and an erotic one at that.