It is almost suffocating at times, not to be at home – the feeling of alienation and then I also try very hard to fit in. It is in the same country no doubt and yet home seems a million miles away. I am from Bombay and I live in Bangalore. To a very large extent, it also depends on the past and that is exactly what Fumio Obata’s graphic novel, “Just So Happens” is about – the meaning of home and its importance. They can either make or break what is home for the person. Relationships perhaps are the crux to home.
There are times you long for it and there are times you cannot stand to be in that place. Home is also sometimes the place that you want to go back to the most and just cannot.
In 2010 he started tutoring as a visiting lecturer for BA courses in the UK to support young talents to develop their own/unique artistic voices in various sequential contexts such as animation, graphic novel and children’s book.Home is where the heart is. Since then he has had a close relation with the French comic book scene and chose graphic novel and comic book as his main creative outlet. In 2008 he undertook an artist residency at La Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l’image in Angoulême, France. During the 5years he learned the importance of teamwork, structure and planning - the practical side of creative industry. In Edinburgh, he worked on numbers of joint projects with DC Thompson. Between 20 he worked with Duran Duran, Channel4, and joined Redkite Animations in Edinburgh in 2006.
Under the guidance of some great tutors he decided to pursue his career in sequential imagery/design and is eager to extend its potentials into a wider perspective.įumio also has a career as an animator. He studied BA Illustration at Glasgow School of Art and obtained a Master degree in Communication Design from Royal College of Art in London. In 1991 he moved to the UK and has been living on the British soil since. Always fond of drawing, at school his exercise books were always full of cartoon sketches. He is also a visual artist in his own right.įumio was born in Tokyo and grew up with the Manga and Anime cultures of the 1970’s and 80’s. Fumio Obata is a comic book author whose work and inspiration come from cultural differences and social issues in his surroundings.
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