Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

The series formerly known as BaRuuba’s Adventures is going to be heavily revised into three series, Barumba the Wild Jungle SnowBoy, Barumba’s Adventures and BarumbaLand.  BarumbaLand seems to have a bigger amount of long term potential, given that it’s going to heavily show the increasing international impact of both regional Ugandan mythologies and Salgarian style adventures for people who aren’t interested in both Karl May and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Then again, Emilio Salgari already made a posthumously huge impact on Yoichiro Minami, thus he also has inspired two whole generations of creatives.  Unlike in much earlier editions, Barumba is going to be first a wild virgin young apeman trying to make friends with fellow humans. He then matures from a virgin young apeman to a person with the strength of a freaking Konno Snake!  Barumba has about three sons, starting with the eldest named Barkha. 

The Shikama Lineage  Enomoto School Shuto Enomoto Shikama School Hiroyuki Nishimura  Masahide Yanagisawa Takahiro Shikama  Kawamoto School Toshihiro Kawamoto Masahide Yanagisawa  Takahiro Komori  Tsunenori Saito  *Tellingly, though a realist in origin, Kawamoto inherits quite a lot of styles and philosophies ranging from Mitsuo Iso, Mamoru Kurosawa, Yoshinobu Inano and Atsuko Nakajima, to Mutsumi Inomata and Ichiro Itano. Thus he is an honorary glider alongside Takahiro Shikama!  Takeuchi School Tetsuya Takeuchi Ryo Araki  Koji Yabuno Hirata School Yukiyoshi Hane  Tomohiro Hirata  Hirofumi Suzuki  *Tomohiro Hirata was influenced by Urushihara and Itano school lineage animators shortly after his career had begun, such as Toshiki Hirano and Mutsumi Inomata. Hirofumi Suzuki instead has a stronger dual realist origin, at least in both Takashi Nakamura’s early works and Yasuji Mori’s Nippon Animation period.  The Nakajima Lineage...

I’m afraid that Big Ugly Conan-style Tarzan designs are perhaps more accurate to the ERBU canon than one might realise, which is why people prefer handsomer and yet more realistic Tarzan designs. Heck, it’s such a good warning when even what Robert E. Howard might’ve imagined of his own Conan the Barbarian is less frightening in hindsight than what ERB himself would imagine of his own ERBU canon Tarzan. This is a perennial mind screw to behold!  Ernie Chan’s Tarzan design portfolio is inspired by the Buscema brothers, John Romita Sr, Bob Lubbers, Rex Maxon, Alfredo Alcala, Paul Reinman, Nick Cardy, Steve Ditko, Francisco V. Coching, Joe Kubert, Neal Adams and Russ Manning.  Alfredo Alcala’s Tarzan design portfolio is influenced by Alex Toth, Nick Cardy, Paul Reinman, Burne Hogarth, Dan and Sy Barry, Rex Maxon, Jesse Marsh and Hal Foster.  John and Sal Buscema’s Tarzan design portfolio was primarily inspired by artists Milton Caniff, Jack Kirby, Dan and Sy Barry, Steve Dit...