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Nie Jun

Born in 1975 in Xining, in the province of Qinghai, China. He began drawing an early age by copying lianhuanhua (tradictional Chinese palm-sized picture books of sequential art). He soon became fan of Osamu Tezuka, Zhan Leping, and black-and-white pirated editions of TinTin. As a teenager , he won a constest sponsored by comics magazine and had his drawings published for the first time. Later, he was deeply influenced by the range of works within the Chinese comics scene, as well as by Japanese artists Akira Toriyama and Katsuhiro Otomo, not to mention Moebius (the french cartoonist Jean Giraud). In 1995 he began to publish his arts in magazines. He lives in Beijing and teaches drawing to university students.

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Gideon Defoe

Gideon Defoe never meant to become an author. When Defoe bumped into a woman he had pursued during his time studying archaeology and anthropology at Oxford, they began chatting about what they were up to. Realising that his job temping for Westminster council was not going to win him any romantic points, he told her that he was writing a novel. She asked to see it, at which point he found that he really was writing a novel. His manuscript was originally circulated among friends, who photocopied it and passed it on until, eventually, it fell into the hands of a literary agent.

He was raised by his mother in the south of England. His late father wrote thrillers that featured a lot of sexy Russian spies seducing middle-aged men uncannily like h

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Jean Webster

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her most well-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.

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Taizan 5

Original in japanese: タイザン5.

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Mizu Sahara

Japanese name 佐原ミズ.

Pen name used by manga-ka Sumomo Yumeka for her predominantly seinen works. Published in the magazines Afternoon (Kodansha), Melody (Shueisha), and Comic Bunch (Shinchosha).

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Makoto Ojiro

オジロマコト

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Taiyo Matsumoto

See also: 松本大洋 and 松本大洋

Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.

In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto st

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Chuya Koyama

Chūya Koyama (小山宙哉) is a Japanese writer, best known for his Space Brothers series, published regularly since 2007.

On 2 November 2016 his artwork was carried into space by the H-IIA rocket carrying the Himawari-9 weather satellite as part of an outreach project organized by the Young Astronauts Club Japan

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Rébecca Dautremer

BIOGRAPHY

Rébecca Dautremer was born in 1971 in Gap in the South of France (Hautes Alpes). She attended classes in the ENSAD of Paris and got a degree in graphic edition in 1995. She afterwards became a graphic editor and illustrator. A few years ago, she started to write books of her own. Now living in Paris with her husband Taï-Marc Lethanh and their three children, she also works for the press for children (Milan-Presse and Fleurus-Presse), school publishers, and in advertising.

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Her picture books are very poetic, with a hint of humour. Inspired by fairy tales, she offers new and more entertaining stories, featuring Babayaga, an ogress, a funny Cyrano, and weird princesses like P?tsec and Quart de Lune. Rébecca's recipe is : warm colo

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Hisae Iwaoka

Hisae Iwaoka (岩岡ヒサエ , Iwaoka Hisae) is a Japanese manga artist.
Her work includes the one-shot manga Hana Boro (Flower Cookies) and Shiroi Kumo (White Clouds), Yume no Soko,Hoshigahara Aomanjuu no Mori, as well as the series Saturn Apartments, published by Ikki Comics and licensed in English by Viz Media.

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Ken Watanabe

Ken Watanabe grew up bilingual in Japan and studied in the United States at Yale and Harvard Business School. He was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company for six years. He is now the founder and CEO of his own education, entertainment, and media company, Delta Studio.

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Jon McNaught

Jon McNaught was born in 1985. He lives in London where he draws comics, and works as an illustrator, printmaker and lecturer.

His Clients include; Penguin Books, Faber, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Walker Books, Picador, and the BBC.

He is also a regular cover artist for the London Review of Books.

He is the Author of Kingdom, Birchfield Close, Pebble Island and Dockwood (Winner of the Angouleme ‘Prix Révélation’ award in 2012).

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Lucie Bryon

Lucie Bryon is an cartoonist and illustrator. She studied graphic design in Orléans, France and comics at the ESA St Luc Brussels, Belgium.
She now lives in France and works for children’s publishing, video game companies and various publications as an illustrator and comic artist.
Her work has been published by ShortBox, Milan, BDkids, Kaboom Studios, Cicada Magazine, and France Inter.
She regularly publishes short comics online and self publishes books.

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Nicole Chung

Nicole Chung is the author of A Living Remedy (April 4, 2023) and the national bestseller All You Can Ever Know (2018). Named a Best Book of the Year by over twenty outlets, including NPR, The Washington Post, Time, and Library Journal, All You Can Ever Know was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and NAIBA Book of the Year, a semifinalist for the PEN Open Book Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and an Indies Choice Honor Book. Nicole is currently a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Time, The Guardian, Slate, and Vulture. Find her on Twitter, Mastodon, and Post at @nicolesjchung.

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Taiyo Matsumoto

See also: 松本大洋 and 松本大洋

Although Taiyo Matsumoto desired a career as a professional soccerplayer at first, he eventually chose an artistic profession. He gained his first success through the Comic Open contest, held by the magazine Comic Morning, which allowed him to make his professional debut. He started out with 'Straight', a comic about basketball players. Sports remain his main influence in his next comic, 'Zéro', a story about a boxer.

In 1993 Matsumoto started the 'Tekkonkinkurito' trilogy in Big Spirits magazine, which was even adapted to a theatre play. He continued his comics exploits with several short stories for the Comic Aré magazine, which are collected in the book 'Nihon no Kyodai'. Again for Big Spirits, Taiyo Matsumoto st

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Cati Baur

Je suis née à Genève à l'automne 1973.

Après des études d’arts plastiques et une première vie de libraire, je deviens assistante d’édition et me fais connaître en animant un blog BD alors que ce média est à peine émergent.

En 2007, je publie ma première bande dessinée aux éditions Delcourt, avant de me tourner plus particulièrement vers la jeunesse avec la série « Quatre Soeurs » adaptée des romans de Malika Ferdjoukh, désormais publiée chez Rue de Sèvres, puis d'illustrer des albums et des couvertures avec divers éditeurs, dont L'école des Loisirs, Magnard, Play-Bac, Casterman...

Aujourd’hui, je vis à Montpellier et partage mon temps entre l'illustration et la bande dessinée.

I am a french illustrator and comic book author, born in Geneva in 1

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Mathieu Bablet

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Yarō Abe

Yaro Abe (安倍夜郎)

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Makoto Ojiro

オジロマコト

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Tatsuya Endo

Tatsuya Endo (遠藤達哉 Endou Tatsuya) is a Japanese mangaka.

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Lucie Bryon

Lucie Bryon is an cartoonist and illustrator. She studied graphic design in Orléans, France and comics at the ESA St Luc Brussels, Belgium.
She now lives in France and works for children’s publishing, video game companies and various publications as an illustrator and comic artist.
Her work has been published by ShortBox, Milan, BDkids, Kaboom Studios, Cicada Magazine, and France Inter.
She regularly publishes short comics online and self publishes books.

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Kamome Shirahama

Kamome Shirahama (白浜鴎) is a Japanese manga artist.

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Battan

Battan (native name: ばったん) is a mangaka from Japan.

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Yan Gao

1996年生於臺北，臺灣藝術大學視覺傳達設計系畢業，於沖繩縣立藝術大學短期留學。以插畫、漫畫在台灣與日本穩定活動中。著有《綠之歌》、《間隙》等作品。擔任村上春樹《棄貓》的封面及插畫繪製。

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Jinushi

地主

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Yarō Abe

Yaro Abe (安倍夜郎)

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Jirō Taniguchi

Name (in native language): 谷口ジロー
Zodiac: Leo

He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu

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Kyōko Okazaki

Kyōko Okazaki (岡崎京子) is a Japanese cartoonist. In a relatively short career, spanning from 1983 to 1996, Okazaki established herself as a leading figure in josei manga, i.e. comics primarily targeting women. In particular, she was a major contributor to gyaru manga, a trend reclaiming 'girliness' into adult graphic novels.
Okazaki is known for her unorthodox visual style and her bluntness in tackling topics such as sex, prostitution, bourgeois decadence and body dismorphia, against the backdrop of the opulent life in 80s and 90s Tokyo. Her most famous works are Pink (1989), River's Edge (1993-1994) and Helter Skelter (1995-1996), the latter also adapted into a live-action film.
In 1996 Okazaki was hit by a car. The accident, from which she is

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Marina Shirakawa

Marina Shirakawa (白川まり奈, Shirakawa Marina, 1940-2000) was a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator.
His manga touched on bizarre themes and situations, such as UFO's, time-travels, vampires and zombie cats, as exemplified in his most famous work UFO Mushroom Invasion (1976). As an illustrator and folklorist, Shirakawa worked on projects related to Japanese paranormal folklore (especially yokai, Japanese ghosts) and H.P. Lovecraft.

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Akane Torikai

Akane Torikai (Japanese: 鳥飼茜, Torikai Akane) is a Japanese manga author.
Torikai entered the manga industry around 2004, working as an assistant to Minoru Furuya, while publishing her own short stories in shojo (girls') manga magazines, including 'Bessatsu Shojo Friend' and 'Be Love'.
Torikai acquired fame with her longer comics, serialised in seinen (adult) manga magazines. Her works usually tackle controversial topics, often with a feminist perspective. Among her books are: Sensei's Pious Lie (2013-2017), about a young female teacher dealing with sexual assault; Jigoku no Girlfriend (2014-2017), featuring three young women sharing an apartment and looking for their place in modern Japan; Wandering Cat’s Cage (2017-2018), set in a dystopian

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Sekka Iwata

岩田雪花 (Iwata Sekka) is a Japanese Mangaka.

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Yoko Komori

Name (in native language): 小森羊仔 (KOMORI Youko)
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Sylvie Lainé

Author of Science Fiction stories and professor of Information Science at the University of Lyon.

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Kozue Amano

Kozue Amano (天野こずえ Amano Kozue) is a female Japanese manga artist. She is widely known as the creator of Aria, which proved to be a best-selling hit, and was adapted into an anime television series consisting of 3 seasons and an OVA.

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Hitoshi Ashinano

Hitoshi Ashinano (芦奈野ひとし, Ashitano Hitoshi) is a Japanese manga artist.
Prior to his professional debut as a solo cartoonist, Ashinano worked as an assistant to manga artist Kousuke Fujishima, while also releasing some doujinshi (amateur manga) under the pen name 'suke'.
Ashinano's comics are known for their contemplative, laid-back, nostalgic feel. His first and best-known series is Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, a slice-of-life manga set in a post-apocalyptic world. The manga was serialised in Kodansha's comics magazine 'Monthly Afternoon' from 1994 to 2006, won the 2007 'Seiun Award for Best Science Fiction Manga' and was adapted into an anime.

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Qiu Miaojin

Qiu Miaojin (1969–1995) was one of Taiwan’s most innovative literary modernists, and the country’s most renowned lesbian writer. Her first published story, “Prisoner,” received the Central Daily News Short Story Prize, and her novella Lonely Crowds won the United Literature Association Award. While attending graduate school in Paris, she directed a thirty-minute film called Ghost Carnival, and not long after this, at the age of twenty-six, she committed suicide. The posthumous publications of her novels Last Words from Montmartre and Notes of a Crocodile (forthcoming from NYRB Classics) made her into one of the most revered countercultural icons in Chinese letters.

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Yan Gao

1996年生於臺北，臺灣藝術大學視覺傳達設計系畢業，於沖繩縣立藝術大學短期留學。以插畫、漫畫在台灣與日本穩定活動中。著有《綠之歌》、《間隙》等作品。擔任村上春樹《棄貓》的封面及插畫繪製。

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Ellie S. Green

E. (Ellie) S. Green est une romancière.

Elle s'est d'abord tournée vers une carrière scientifique et médicale avant de se lancer dans l'écriture. Elle est fascinée par la navigation et la piraterie du XVIIIe siècle.

Pour "L'Héliotrope" (2020), son premier roman et le premier tome de la série "Steam Sailors", elle s'est inspirée de cette époque et d'une histoire inventée pour sa jeune fratrie, il y a plus de dix ans.

Elle est lauréate du Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, Roman francophone pour la jeunesse 2021, pour "Steam Sailors" (tomes 1 et 2).

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Míriam Bonastre Tur

Míriam was born in a small town near Barcelona in '94. It's impossible to specify when she started to draw. She doodled on any smooth surface before even learning to walk. Now, she's a Comic student at Escola Joso Art School. She has drawn many zines and collaborative comics but all in Spanish.

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Kiyohiko Azuma

Kiyohiko Azuma (東清彦 or あずまきよひこ Azuma Kiyohiko) is a Japanese manga author and artist. His most well-known work is Azumanga Daioh. His current series is Yotsuba&!, which is serialized monthly in Dengeki Daioh magazine.

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Zuo Ma

Zuo Ma was born in Zhijiang City in 1983. After graduating from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2005, he began his career as a cartoonist and freelance illustrator. His comics typically encompass horror, fantasy, and autobiography. Zuo Ma is considered one of the leaders in the nascent Chinese alternative comics scene.

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Fumiyo Kouno

Fumiyo Kōno (こうの史代, Kouno Fumiyo) is a Japanese manga artist. She was born in Hiroshima in 1968 and began drawing manga when she was in junior high school. After moving to Tokyo, she became an assistant to mangaka Katsuyuki Toda, Aki Morino, and Fumiko Tanigawa.
Kōno made her commercial debut in 1995 with Machikado Hana Dayori. She is best known for her manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, winner of the Grand Prize at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival (2004) and of the New Life Award at the 9th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes (2005).

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Mathieu Bablet

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Keiichi Koike

Keiichi Koike (in Japanese, 小池桂一) is a Japanese manga artist.

Born in Tokyo in 1960, Koike won the prestigious Tezuka Award in 1976, when he was 16.

His style, similar to Katsuhiro Otomo and Moebius, is marked by vivid representations of psychedelic experiences.

Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however, LSD is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of manga Heaven's Door and Ultra Heaven.

His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016.

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Akira Oze

Also 尾瀬あきら.

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Rosario Villajos

Rosario Villajos (Córdoba,1978) dedicó su infancia a dibujar, leer y ver películas. Ha vivido en ocho ciudades diferentes de tres países distintos. Regresó a España en 2017, desde entonces no ha dejado de escribir y dibujar. Ha publicado una sola novela gráfica, FACE (Fanfare - Ponent Mon) y tres obras narrativas, Ramona (Mrs. Danvers, 2019), La muela (Aristas Martínez, 2021) y La educación Física (Seix Barral, 2023), por la que obtuvo el Premio Biblioteca Breve.
Colabora en algunos medios de forma eventual y por encargo reseñando libros, discos o escribiendo sobre cualquier tema de su interés.
Compagina la literatura con un trabajo en IT de 32 horas a la semana.

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Shun Umezawa

Shun Umezawa (うめざわしゅん, Umezawa Shun) is a Japanese manga author.
Umezawa debuted in 1998 in the magazine 'Young Sunday'. He usually works for seinen manga magazines, aimed at a mature audience. His short stories have been collected in books, most notably Utopias (2006), 1 & 99 (2012), A Pantyhose Like World (2016).
He is best known as the author of the manga Darwin's Incident, which has been serialised since 2020. The series has received multiple accolades, including the Manga Taishō Grand Prize in 2022, the Manga Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival and the BDGest’Arts at the Asian section of the 50th Angoulême festival in France.

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Mateusz Urbanowicz

I do a lot of different art, but mostly paintings, illustrations, animations, comics, videos, and anything else that's shiny! I'm originally from Poland but now I freelance out of my studio in Kanagawa, Japan along with my wife Kana. If you are curious how I make my art have a look at my website or YouTube channel!

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Mizuki Tsujimura

Associated Names:
* Mizuki Tsujimura
* 辻村深月 (Japanese)

Tsujimura is an award-winning novelist, she is best known for her mystery and children novels. She studied at Chiba University and won the Naoki Prize in 2012 for Kagi no nai Yume wo Miru (I Saw a Dream Without a Key), and in 2018 she won the Japan Booksellers' Award for her novel Kagami no Kojo (Lonely Castle in the Mirror).

Japanese name 辻村深月

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Housui Yamazaki

Housui Yamazaki [山崎峰水] is a Japanese manga artist. He also has two other pseudonyms [Yamazaki Hiroshi:山崎浩], [Hiro Yamazaki:ヒロ山崎] He wrote and illustrated the three volume Mail series in 1999-2002, 2004, 2005. He currently illustrates The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, which is authored by Eiji Otsuka.

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Tony Medina

Tony Medina is a poet, graphic novelist, editor, short story writer, and author. Born in the South Bronx and raised in the Throgs Neck Housing Projects, Medina earned a BA in English at Baruch College, CUNY, on the GI Bill, and an MA and PhD at Binghamton University, SUNY, where he received the Distinguished Dissertation Award. Medina has published 22 books for adults and young readers, the most recent of which are Che Che Colé; Death, With Occasional Smiling; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy; I Am Alfonso Jones; and Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky. Medina’s awards include the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, the Langston Hughes Society Award, the first African Voices Literary Award, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetr

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Yama Wayama

Name (in native Japanese): 和山やま

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Evan Dorkin

Evan Dorkin is an American comics artist and writer.

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Sanpei Shirato

Sanpei Shirato (白土三平) was born Noboru Okamoto in 1932, a son of well-known leftist painter and activist, Tōki Okamoto, who was active in organizing a proletarian art movement during the 1920s and 1930s. In wartime Japan, to avoid persecution from the authorities, the Okamoto family frequently moved around the country to different places including Kobe, Osaka, and some rural areas where young Shirato experienced poverty and came in contact with ethnic minorities and other discriminated groups (i.e., burakumin) as a child.

Shirato debuted in 1957 with his manga, Kogarashi kenshi. Although his earlier manga were aimed at children, some of them already exhibited social concerns, including social marginalization of ethnic minorities, the struggle

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Rimui Yumin

韋蘺若明

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Gouten Hamada

Gouten Hamada (濱田轟天 ,Hamada Gōten) is a Japanese mangaka.

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Machiko Kyo

Machiko Kyo (今日マチ子, Kyo Machiko) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator from Tokyo. She was born in 1980 and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts.
Her daily one-page manga blog Sennen Gaho started in 2004 and was published as a book in 2008, attracting much attention. Among her comics are the slice-of-life series Mikako-san (2009-2013), the WWII drama Cocoon (2010) and the post-apocalyptic Mitsuami no Kami-sama (2011-2013). The latter was adapted into a short animated film in 2015 by the studio Production I.G., winning more than twenty awards around the world. In 2014, Machiko Kyo received the 18th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award.
In addition to manga, she is also involved in a wide range of illustration and essay projects. Her war-the

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Yoshichi Shimada

Kanji Name: 島田洋七.
Yoshichi Shimada, Japanese famous comedian and writer. His real name is Akihiro Tokunaga. After the explosion of the atom bombs, the writer’s father died of nuclear radiation. Because his mother couldn’t afford to take care of two sons and work at the same time, he was sent to his grandma’s house in Saga. Although the grandma was so poor in those days, she always had some wonderful ways to go on living and made life full of discovery and laugh.

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Kazuo Kamimura

Name (in native language) : 上村一夫

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Shinsuke Yoshitake

Associated Names:
* ヨシタケシンスケ (Japanese)
* Shinsuke Yoshitake (English)
* 吉竹伸介 (Chinese)
* 요시타케 신스케 (Korean)
* ชินสุเกะ โยชิทาเกะ (Thai)

Shinsuke Yoshitake is the author-illustrator of many award-winning picture books, including New York Times Notable Children's Book of the Year There Must Be More Than That!, New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year The Boring Book, I Can Be Anything, I Won't Give Up My Rubber Band, and I Can Explain. His books have been translated into more than 10 languages. He lives in Japan.

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Wataru Midori

Name (in native Japanese): みどりわたる

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Yuki Kodama

Associated names : 小玉由起 (chinese)

Name (in native language) : 小玉ユキ

Zodiac : Libra

Blood type : A

Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/codamayuki

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Shiro Kuroi

黒井白
Kannosuke Hiramatsu (平松歓之介)
Honorable Mention in Winter 2007 and the grand-prize winner in Summer 2008 of the Afternoon Four Seasons Award under the pen-name Kannosuke Hiramatsu.

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Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock was an Argentinian-Italian author, poet, critic and translator. He was the son of Charles Leonard Wilcock and Ida Romegialli.

After writting some poetry books, published in his homeland, he left Argentina because his opposition to Juan Domingo Perón's government. Soon before leaving, he learned some italian, then he moved to Italy, where he lived in very humble conditions. There, aside from his translations, that made possible sustain himself in a foreign country, he started writing fiction in italian.

This is how, in the 1970s, he published his most remarkable works, such as La sinagoga degli iconoclasti, Il libro dei mostri and Lo stereoscopio dei solitari, books largely inspired by Borges' humoristic and modernist sty

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Eric Grissom

Eric Grissom's work includes the middle-grade fantasy graphic novel series GOBLIN with artist Will Perkins, the interactive middle-grade novel ON THE ISLAND OF THE MAD MAGICIAN, the strange mystery graphic novel DEADHORSE with artists Phil Sloan, David Halvorson, and Marissa Louise, and the mature graphic novella ANIMALS with artist Claire Connelly. Additionally, Eric is the author of the tabletop RPG BEWARE THE DARK SISTERHOOD.

Eric lives in New Jersey with his wife, three children, two dogs, and several Halloween animatronics in various states of repair.

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Fumi Saimon

柴門ふみ in Japanese

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Kaori Tsurutani

Kaori Tsurutani (鶴谷香央理) is a Japanese mangaka.
She is mostly known for her work Metamorphose no engawa (2018), nominee for Manga Taisho Award.

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Chica Umino

Chica Umino (Jap: 羽海野チカ) is a Japanese mangaka.
Her real name is not disclosed, "Umino Chica" is a pen name.

She began work as a product designer and illustrator.
Umino has a unique drawing style, listing Studio Ghibli amongst her influences, and her characters are remarkably well-developed.

Her most famous series to date is Hachimitsu to Clover (English name: Honey and Clover), a 'slice of life' manga series which debuted in 2000 in Shueisha's manga magazine, CUTiEcomic. The series won the Kodansha Manga Award in 2003 and was nominated for the Tezuka Culture Prize and an award from the Japan Media Arts Festival. It was also adapted into an animated television series in 2005, a live-action movie in 2006 and two individual live-action TV serie

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Kazumi Yamashita

Name (in native language) : 山下和美

Zodiac : Leo

Blood Type : AB

Although she writes primarily older shoujo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.

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Alessandro Baronciani

Alessandro Baronciani è fumettista, illustratore, art director, grafico e musicista. Classe 1974, pesarese di nascita ma milanese d'adozione, ha pubblicato per “La Repubblica XL” e “Rumore Magazine”. Cantante e musicista punk con il gruppo “Altro”, ha dato vita al progetto darkwave “Tante Anna”. Nel 2006, pubblica per Black Velvet Una storia a fumetti, raccolta delle sue prime autoproduzioni. Sempre per Black Velvet, pubblica Quando tutto diventò blu e Le ragazze nello studio di Munari. Nel 2013 dà avvio alla collaborazione con BAO Publishing, per la quale pubblica Raccolta – 1992/2012. Nel 2015, sempre per BAO Publishing, pubblica La distanza, sceneggiato da Colapesce.

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panpanya

Panpanya (Japanese: パンパンヤ) is a Japanese manga author. Their real name, age and gender are unknown to the general public.
Panpanya's books are collections of short stories, usually first published in the 'josei' (woman) magazine Rakuen. The stories mix slice-of-life and surrealism and are independent from one another, albeit sharing a roster of recurrent characters. The nameless protagonist, generally seen as a cartoon alter-ego of the author, is a girl of undefined age, sometimes portrayed as a schooler, sometimes as an adult.
Panpanya emerged from the indie doujinshi (amateur) manga scene around 2010. Their professional career started in 2013 with the book Ashizuri Suizokukan (Ashizuri Aquarium). The following book An Invitation from a Crab

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Victor Kelleher

Victor Kelleher is an Australian author. Victor was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a teaching degree in Africa and has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Allison, and taught at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.

Kelleher has won many awards for his books, such as the

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Alessandro Tota

Alessandro Tota è nato a Bari nel 1982. Diplomato in pittura all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, vive e lavora a Parigi. È tra i fondatori della rivista Canicola.

Il suo primo libro, Yeti, pubblicato nel 2010 da Coconico Press-Fandango, ha ricevuto importanti riconoscimenti. Nel 2011 è uscito il suo secondo libro, Fratelli.

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Yi Yang

Yi Yang, classe ’94, ha una grande passione per Kon Satoshi e per il cibo… tranne la rucola! Si è trasferita in Italia nel 2013 dove vive e lavora. Nel 2016 è stata selezionata per l’Illustrators Exibition del Bologna Children’s Book Fair e ha pubblicato Aiuto! (BAO Publishing), illustrato A colorful day (TianTian Publishing) e Sasso il pittore, sempre per il mercato cinese. Collabora con svariate riviste e Case editrici tra cui: ChunFengWenYi e Holding Limited.

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Shinichi Ishizuka

Shin'ichi Ishizuka (Jap: 石塚真一, Ishizuka Shin'ichi) is a Japanese mangaka.

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Saburō Ishikawa

Kanji Name: 石川サブロウ.

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Mitsuchiyomaru

みつちよ丸

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Moto Hagio

Moto Hagio (萩尾望都 Hagio Moto) is a manga artist born in Ōmuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, though she currently lives in Saitama Prefecture.
She is considered a "founding mother" of modern shōjo manga, and a member of the Year 24 Group (24-Gumi). She helped pioneer modern shōjo manga, modern science fiction manga, and BL manga. In addition to being an "industry pioneer", her body of work "shows a maturity, depth and personal vision found only in the finest of creative artists". She has been described as "the most beloved shōjo manga artist of all time."

Moto Hagio made her professional debut in 1969 at the age of 20 with her short story Lulu to Mimi on Kodansha's magazine Nakayoshi. Later she produced a series of short stories for various maga

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Abi Umeda

Abi Umeda (native name: 梅田阿比, Umeda Abi) is a Japanese manga author.

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Philippe Soupault

Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault founded the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris 1919, which, for many, dates the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, Les champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. After imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States but subsequently returned to France. His works include such fat volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents [compass card] (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr

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Osamu Yamamoto

Kanji Name: 山本おさむ.

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Sheng Chang

Name (in native language) : 常勝

Zodiac : Sagittarius

Blood type : O

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jlcomic/

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Lâm Hoàng Trúc

Tốt nghiệp khoa Mỹ thuật công nghiệp, Trường Đại học Kiến trúc Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh.

Là tác giả của 2 tác phẩm Đường hoa và Mùa hè bất tận.

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Youn In-wan

Youn In-Wan (인완윤) is a South Korean manhwa writer.

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Asao Takamori

Asao Takamori (高森朝雄, Takamori Asao) is another pen name of the Japanese mangaka Asaki Takamori (高森朝樹, Takamori Asaki) or Ikki Kajiwara (梶原一騎, Kajiwara Ikki).

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Sansuke Yamada

See 山田参助

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Little Thunder

門小雷，漫畫家，生於香港。

中五畢業後，成為全職漫畫家。2006年出版個人畫集《彩虹》，漫畫集《666》、《Boom！邊走邊愛》及《裡裡外外》。及後在《Milk Magazine》連載專欄《宇宙不安學會》，同期編繪《KYLOOE》三部曲，印有法文版、中文版及意大利文版本，憑《KYLOOE 1 - Downhearted Dragonfly》榮獲第四屆國際漫畫賞銅獎。

2012年首次舉辦個人展《告白》，自資出版繪本《夜記》，除了畫畫之外，門小雷亦喜愛跳舞。

門小雷說過：「I draw love letters, not comics.」繪畫只是一種工具，她畫的是愛、恨、寂寞與一切情感。

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Hannelore Cayre

A criminal lawyer, she is also a film director and, above all, a writer.

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Tetsuya Toyoda

Name (in native language): 豊田徹也

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Hartley Lin

Hartley Lin (formerly known by the pseudonym Ethan Rilly) is a cartoonist based in Montreal, Canada. Young Frances, the first collection from his ongoing comic book Pope Hats, won the 2019 Doug Wright Award for Best Book. He has drawn for The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, Slate, Taddle Creek and HarperCollins.

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Katsuhisa Minami

Associated Names:
* Katsuhisa Minami (Engish)
* 南勝久 (Japanese)
* คัทสึฮิสะ มินามิ (Thai)

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Fumiko Takano

Fumiko Takano (高野文子, Takano Fumiko) is a Japanese cartoonist. She is considered an important figure of the manga 'New Wave' of the late 70's and early 80's.
Takano got interested in making manga in high school, when she discovered the influential work of Moto Hagio. She later moved to Tokyo, where she studied to become a nurse and worked as such for a couple of years. During that time, she continued drawing amateur manga (doujinshi).
Her professional debut happened in 1979, when her story Zettai Anzen Kamisori was published in 'June', an alternative manga magazine coming out of the doujinshi scene. She also collaborated with more mainstream shōjo manga magazines, like 'Petit Flower' and 'Seventeen', while working as a secretary at the small

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Keigo Shinzō

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