{"id":369,"date":"2009-07-03T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftsurfingmagazine.driftdigital.co.uk\/?p=369"},"modified":"2009-10-15T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T10:24:02","slug":"yusuke-hanai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftsurfingmagazine.driftdigital.co.uk\/index.php\/archives\/369","title":{"rendered":"Yusuke Hanai"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"yusuke-hanai\"Brazilian surf culture vulture Jair Bortoleto meets Japanese cartoonist Yusuke Hanai\u2026<\/p>\n

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Jair Bortoleto: <\/strong>How is your art influenced by surfing?
\nYusuke Hanai: <\/strong>I surf every weekend, and most of my art is inspired by surfing, waves, and surfers. I started surfing at Shonan, the birthplace of Japanese surf culture. Japanese surfers think it\u2019s kind of like California.
\nI love watching people surf as much as I enjoy doing it myself. I try to express the feelings you get when surfing in my art.
\nWhen I was kid I loved watching cartoons like Tom & Jerry. I drew cartoons all the time, all over the house. Later, I think when I was high school student, I saw Rick Griffin\u2019s cartoon work. I was shocked. I thought \u2018I want to draw like him\u2019.<\/p>\n

JB: <\/strong>You grew up in Japan, right?
\nYH: <\/strong>I lived about 30 minutes\u2019 drive from the ocean and there were lots of surfers in my town. When I was a high school student an older friend took me and a bunch of people to the beach; we tried surfing for the first time that day and we loved it immediately.<\/p>\n

JB: <\/strong>But you moved to the US to study\u2026
\nYH: <\/strong>I was at art college over in San Fransisco, but while I was there my father developed leukemia and got pretty seriously ill. I wanted to be close to him so I returned home without graduating but I plan on going back someday.<\/p>\n

JB: <\/strong>Did he recover?
\nYH: <\/strong>Yes He did. But it was a really tough experience for my family.<\/p>\n

JB:<\/strong> Can you sum up your outlook on life?
\nYH: <\/strong>Hanging out with friends who have same dreams, ideals and experiences as me makes my life happy and fun. That, good surf and my art is all I need.<\/p>\n

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