Jirō Tsunoda (Japanese: つのだじろう Tsunoda Jirō, born 3 July 1936) is a Japanese manga artist. He is known in Japan for his…Jirō Tsunoda (Japanese: つのだじろう Tsunoda Jirō, born 3 July 1936) is a Japanese manga artist. He is known in Japan for his horror manga series such as Kyōfu Shinbun and Ushiro no Hyakutarō as well as illustrator of the karate series Karate Master.
Noboru Okamoto (Japanese: 岡本 登, Hepburn: Okamoto Noboru; February 15, 1932 – October 8, 2021), known by the pen name…Noboru Okamoto (Japanese: 岡本 登, Hepburn: Okamoto Noboru; February 15, 1932 – October 8, 2021), known by the pen name Sanpei Shirato (白土 三平, Shirato Sanpei), was a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as the realism of his drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of the controversial gekiga genre of adult-oriented manga. The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist equal with his father started when he became a kamishibai artist. He is also known for his work published in the early issues of the manga anthology magazine Garo in 1964, which he began publishing so as to serialize his comic Kamui.
Shinta Chō (Japanese: 長新太(ちょうしんた); September 24, 1927 - June 25, 2005) was a Japanese children's author and…Shinta Chō (Japanese: 長新太(ちょうしんた); September 24, 1927 - June 25, 2005) was a Japanese children's author and illustrator. He won the Japan Picture Book Awards Grand Prize for Kyabetsu-kun (Cabbage Boy) in 1981.
Shigeru Sugiura (杉浦 茂, Sugiura Shigeru; 3 April 1908 – 23 April 2000) was a Japanese manga artist famous for his…Shigeru Sugiura (杉浦 茂, Sugiura Shigeru; 3 April 1908 – 23 April 2000) was a Japanese manga artist famous for his surreal, nonsense gag manga.
Nakatarō Takamizawa (高見澤 仲太郎, Takamizawa Nakatarō; February 10, 1899 – December 12, 1989), better known by the pen name…Nakatarō Takamizawa (高見澤 仲太郎, Takamizawa Nakatarō; February 10, 1899 – December 12, 1989), better known by the pen name Suihō Tagawa (田河 水泡, Tagawa Suihō), was a Japanese manga artist.
Viscount Nobutsune Oda (織田 信恒, Oda Nobutsune; 3 August 1889 – 20 May 1967) was a Japanese politician, businessman, and…Viscount Nobutsune Oda (織田 信恒, Oda Nobutsune; 3 August 1889 – 20 May 1967) was a Japanese politician, businessman, and manga author, member of the House of Peers. Under the pen name Oda Shōsei (織田 小星), he wrote the original draft and text for the manga "Shō-chan no Bōken".
Hitoshi Ikebe (池部 鈞, Ikebe Hitoshi; 3 March 1886 – 17 December 1969) was a Japanese painter. His work was part of the…Hitoshi Ikebe (池部 鈞, Ikebe Hitoshi; 3 March 1886 – 17 December 1969) was a Japanese painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Kitazawa Yasuji (北澤 保次; 20 July 1876 – 25 August 1955), known by his pen name Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤 楽天), was a Japanese…Kitazawa Yasuji (北澤 保次; 20 July 1876 – 25 August 1955), known by his pen name Kitazawa Rakuten (北澤 楽天), was a Japanese manga and nihonga artist, who was the first professional cartoonist in Japan, and the first to use the term "manga" in its modern sense. He drew editorial cartoons and comic strips during the years from the late Meiji to the early Shōwa era. He is considered by many historians to be the founding father of modern manga, and his work was an inspiration to many younger manga artists and animators.
Mei-chan no Shitsuji (メイちゃんの執事; "Mei-chan's Butler") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riko Miyagi.…Mei-chan no Shitsuji (メイちゃんの執事; "Mei-chan's Butler") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riko Miyagi. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's Margaret magazine. The manga is licensed and published in Chinese in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing. The manga has been adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama, which was broadcast on Fuji TV between January 13 and March 17, 2009.
Yoshiharu Tsuge (つげ義春, Tsuge Yoshiharu; 30 October 1937 – 3 March 2026) was a Japanese cartoonist and essayist. He was…Yoshiharu Tsuge (つげ義春, Tsuge Yoshiharu; 30 October 1937 – 3 March 2026) was a Japanese cartoonist and essayist. He was active in comics between 1955 and 1987. His works ranged from tales of ordinary life to dream-like surrealism, and often show his interest in traveling about Japan. Tsuge garnered the most attention from the surrealistic works he published in the late 1960s in the avant-garde magazine Garo. Tsuge began producing comics in 1955 for the rental comics industry that flourished in impoverished post-War Japan. Initially, he made comics in the hard-boiled gekiga style–dark, realistic tales with negative endings. When rental comics ceased to be viable employment in the mid-1960s, Tsuge was in dire straits until he was picked up by the publishers of the avant garde comics magazine Garo. From 1965 to 1970, he entered his most widely known phase when he produced often surrealistic and introspective works for Garo. The June 1968 issue saw the most famous of these: the dream-based Neji-shiki (most commonly rendered Screw Style in English). Following his success in Garo, Tsuge became withdrawn, and from the 1970s no longer had his works published in that magazine. His works became alternately autobiographical and erotically fantastic, until health and psychological problems drove him from comics after 1987. He has become a cult figure in Japan. In the West, his status is often compared to that of American cartoonist Robert Crumb. He has had a long-lasting influence, and his works have been adapted to film and television numerous times. His works have rarely been translated–in English, only five short works have appeared. From 1987, he stopped producing comics, and lived a quiet life with his son in Tokyo following his wife's death in 1999, occasionally cooperating with adaptations and reproductions of his past work.
Ryō Azumi (あずみ 椋, Azumi Ryō) is a Japanese manga artist whose works draw on Old Norse literature and other subjects…Ryō Azumi (あずみ 椋, Azumi Ryō) is a Japanese manga artist whose works draw on Old Norse literature and other subjects from Northern Europe.