Dominion Club Portfolio - Shirow Masamune Illustrated World

The Dominion Club Portfolio Front Side, Sealed

Dominion Club - Shirow Masamune Illustrated World A collection of New and Original Illustrations. Contents: 8 full colour prints, 4 monochrome manga panels, The Dominion Files + Menu Author: Shirow Masamune Art Direction: Mugen Kanzaki Publisher: Hakusensha Publishing Co. Ltd. ISBN4-592-73048-8 C0079 Release Date: 1st June 1987 Price: 1000 Yen (Recommended) Dimensions: 36 x 26 cm

In 1987, a time when no Shirow fan knows what a Cyberdelics is, there is a curious and interesting Dominion merchandise in Japan. In a metallic-etch patterned cardboard 'box' is The Dominion Club, a collection of very nice high quality 36 x 26 cm set of colour illustrations and manga pages done by Sensei Shirow for the Dominion Series.

For the contents, I'll refer to the Intron Depot 1 Illustration book. The English Edition of Dominion Tank Police by Dark Horse / Studio Proteus doesn't have the page numbers labelled, so I'll leave the manga part out and just summarize them.

Illustration 01 - Leona 'Freeze' Dominion Portfolio front piece. ID1 page 87.
Illustration 02 - Puma Sisters at the Beach. ID1 page 98.
Illustration 03 - Dominion Graphic Novel (Tankubon) opening page. ID1 page 87, top left.
Illustration 04 - Dominion Collected Volume cover. ID1 page 88 - 89.
Illustration 05 - Fairies (Crolis and friends? ^_^). ID1 page 94.
Illustration 06 - Tank police group picture. ID1 page 93, bottom piece.
Illustration 07 - Puma sisters on bikes (wow!). ID1 page 99.
Illustration 08 - ComiComi edition first page. ID1 page 91.
Illustration 09 to 012 - Four pages and spreads taken from the Dominion manga, from the original printing plates.

Supplement: The Dominion Files + Contents Menu. Altogether 8 printed pages (both sides) printed on a single piece and folded to the Portfolio size. Dominion File 1001 - Tank Police Group, Dominion File 1002 - Chief & Nam, Dominion File 1003 - Tsa & Lt Brenten, Dominion File 1004 - Al Cu Ad Solte, Dominion File 1005 - Leona Ozaki, Dominion File 1006 - Annapuma & Unipuma, Dominion File 1007 - Buak. (Note: these Dominion Files were part of the Seishinsha re-print of the Dominion collected edition, as well as the 3rd edition Dark Horse/ Studio Proteus version).

Sensei Shirow also did mention about the Dominion Club while describing the Leona 'Freeze' illustration in Intron Depot 1 (and Sensei is complimenting the beauty of the Dominion Club!):

"I did this for the cover of a special portfolio of full-size Dominion art. The collection was packaged in a box 8mm deep. One part of the cover, which opened like a caramel wrapper, was transparent plastic, with Leona's face on the first plate peeping out through the window. I doff my hat to Hakusensha's Book Publishing Division for their clever design work."

If Shirow Sensei himself is impressed with this collection, what more to say the Shirow fan? ^_^ A very attractive and outstanding piece of merchandise to compliment a Shirow collection or simply to admire.

Some samples from the Dominion Club Portfolio: