My recent haul included a Ribon "newspaper" furoku from May 1984, and I only intended to scan the Ikeno bits, but turns out this is AH-MAZING so I decided to scan all four pages to share. Basically, a ton of the Ribon artists active at the time answer three questions: "who's your ideal man?" "what does the room you draw manga in look like?" and "what's your pet?" Highlights:
Ikeno draws basically Shun as her ideal man, except I don't think Shun is much of a reader???
I like 80s music so I'm always excited to see manga artists of the time draw or talk about new wave musicians; this is Hagiiwa Mutsumi's fanart of David Sylvian from the band Japan, her ideal man.
Ichijo Yukari saying she's not greedy and doesn't have high ideals for men's looks, they just have to be "about as handsome as Bowie", which lol.
I'm not sure who this guitarist is supposed to be, all hair metal dudes look the same to me. Michael Schenker, I guess, since Gonoue was apparently a fan?
And some fanart!
Future Boy Conan / Yokoyama Mitsuteru's Babel II / Chiba Tetsuya's Shidenkai no Taka (also a childhood favorite of Takemiya Keiko)
Tabuchi Yumiko, one of my favorite Ribon artists, was already married at this point, so she says her "ideal man" is someone who doesn't stay in their pajamas to lazy around in the kotatsu all Sunday. Tabuchi married a Ribon editor and has written some autobiographical works about her marriage and her children, in which she depicts her husband as... a sea lion.
Tabuchi also draws her work space, which is the kitchen. On a side note I just adore Tabuchi's art so much... she has this totally unique yet adorable style and her free hand backgrounds and items make me go ugh, so good.
Ikeno also draws her work space, where we can see Ranze's penguin plushy <3
This furoku also features photos of some of the artists' work spaces, and we get an awesome intimate look at Ichijo Yukari's work desk!
More proof of how popular British new wave and rock was among Japanese manga artists in the 80s... there's one more David Sylvian there, and I think I spot Simon Le Bon?
I'm fascinated by this goose in the middle of Ogura Fuyumi's room.
I'm sorry what the fuck is going on here.
And last but not least, please enjoy a photo of Ikeno's adorable "pet" piglets <3 <3 <3 Ikeno was born to a farm and grew up with a ton of pigs, which is one of the reasons she often draws cute piggies!
