Marina Shirakawa

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  Kawashima Norikazu

  Norikazu Kawashima (川島 のりかず, Kawashima Norikazu , 1950 -2018) was a Japanese cartoonist. He was active in the 80's and is best known as the author of the horror manga Her Frankenstein (1986).
  

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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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  Q. Hayashida

  Q Hayashida (林田球, Hayashida Kyu) is a manga author from Tokyo.
  Hayashida studied oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has discussed her childhood and artistic inspirations in interviews but maintains a high level of privacy about her personal life, to the point that her true name and face are unknown.
  Hayashida's first major manga was Maken X Another (1999-2001), a comic book adaptation of a video game.
  Her most famous work is the 23-volumes long Dorohedoro (2000-2018). It was originally serialised in the alternative manga magazine 'Monthly Ikki', but it was later moved to 'Hibana' when Ikki ceased publication, and finally transferred to 'Monthly Shōnen Sunday'. Dorohedoro has been partially adapted into an anime on Netflix in 2

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  Josh Pettinger

  Josh Pettinger is a Philadelphia-based English cartoonist, mostly known for his comic book series Goiter (Fantagraphics).

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  Gou Tanabe

  Gou Tanabe is a Japanese creator of Manga.
  
  Also known as 田辺 剛.
  
  (Some prefer the spelling Gō Tanabe, but Gou Tanabe is used on his published books so far.)

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  Seiichi Hayashi

  Born in Manchuria in 1945, Seiichi Hayashi is a Japanese visual artist. Hayashi started his career in animation in the 60's, first working for Toei Animation, then co-founding the animation studio Knack Productions.
  From 1967 on, he published comics in the alternative manga magazine Garo. His breakthrough came in 1970 with the manga Red Colored Elegy.
  Hayashi was an influential figure in the Japanese avant-garde art scene of the 70's. A prolific artist, he has also worked as film and commercial director, children's book author, designer and illustrator.
  

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  Keigo Shinzō

  See also: 真造圭伍

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  Kayla E.

  Kayla E. is an American cartoonist.
  She was born and grew up in Texas and earned a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University, where she served as the Art Director for the Harvard Lampoon.
  Kayla E. currently lives in North Carolina and works as creative director at Fantagraphics Books. Her graphic novel debut is Precious Rubbish (2025), a work of trauma recollection told in the style of post-war children’s comics.

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  Sumi Eno

  大学で４年間、美術作品の歴史とかなんとか
  美術史学的な東洋美術史専攻に学んだりして
  卒業後にはその勉強内容を９割方忘れ、
  卒業してから１年経ち、２年経…つ、ちょっと前、
  ２０１４年１２月に裏サンデーで商業デビュー、
  連載開始できました。
  
  一応漫画家を名乗りだしますが、
  決して先生ではありません。
  黄色人種ゴリラ類です。

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  Tarō Bonten

  Associated Names:
  ISHII Kiyomi
  凡天 太郎.
  
  Bonten Tarō was born as Ishii Kiyomi in Tokyo in 1928.
  He was also a tattooist and enka ballad singer.
  Wrote gekiga 'Half-breed Rika' in Shukan Myojo, which later into movie by Tōei Studios.

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  Nick Drnaso

  Nick Drnaso was born in 1989 in Palos Hills, Illinois. His debut graphic novel Beverly received the LA Times Book prize for Best Graphic Novel. He has contributed to several comics anthologies, self-published a handful of comics, been nominated for three Ignatz Awards, and co-edited the second and third issue of Linework, Columbia College's annual comic anthology. Drnaso lives in Chicago, where he works as a cartoonist and illustrator.

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  Shin'ichi Sakamoto

  Sakamoto Shin'ichi (坂本眞一) is a Japanese mangaka.
  He is mostly famous for his series Innocent and Innocent Rouge.
  He is currently working on #DRCL midnight children based on the classic by Bram Stoker.

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  Shigeru Sugiura

  Shigeru SUGIURA (in Japanese: 杉浦茂, 1908–2000) was one of the most popular manga artists of the mid-twentieth century and a pioneer of Pop Art in Japan. Originally trained as a painter, he debuted as a cartoonist in 1932 under the tutelage of Tagawa Suihō, a leading author of children’s manga in the prewar period. In the 1950s, Sugiura himself became a star for his zany, slapstick children’s adventure comics featuring ninja, samurai, cowboys, aliens, and other fantastical characters culled from Japanese popular fiction, Hollywood movies, and American comic books. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he experienced a second boom in popularity, this time for absurdist, surrealistic comics drawn for an adult audience. Due to his inclusion in seminal ar

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  Kanako Inuki

  犬木 加奈子

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  Yoshiharu Tsuge

  Influenced by the adventure comics of Osamu Tezuka and the gritty mystery manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Masahiko Matsumoto, Yoshiharu Tsuge began making his own comics in the mid-1950s. He was also briefly recruited to assist Shigeru Mizuki during his explosion of popularity in the 1960s. In 1968, Tsuge published the groundbreaking, surrealistic story "Nejishiki" in the legendary alternative manga magazine Garo. This story established Tsuge as not only an influential manga-ka but also a major figure within Japan's counter-culture and art world at large. He is considered the originator and greatest practitioner of the semi-autobiographical "I-novel" genre of making comics. In 2005, Tsuge was nominated for the Best Album Award at Angoulême I

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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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  Atsushi Kaneko

  Atsushi Kaneko (カネコアツシ, Kaneko Atsushi) es un mangaka japonés nacido en Sakata, prefectura de Yamagata.

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  Naoki Urasawa

  Urasawa Naoki (浦沢直樹) is a Japanese mangaka. He is perhaps best known for Monster (which drew praise from Junot Díaz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner) and 20th Century Boys.
  
  Urasawa's work often concentrates on intricate plotting, interweaving narratives, a deep focus on character development and psychological complexity. Urasawa has won the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Japan Media Arts Festival excellence award, the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 2008 Urasawa accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University.
  
  Series list (not including short stories collections):
  - Pineapple ARMY (パイナップルARMY) 1985-1988, written by Kazuya Kudo;
  - YAWARA! 1986-1993;
  - Master Keaton (MASTERキートン) 1988-1994, written by Hokusei Ka

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  Jordan Crane

  Jordan Crane is a cartoonist living in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and kids. Crane first emerged in 1996 with the iconic comics anthology NON, which he edited, designed, printed, contributed to, and published.
  
  He has four graphic novels, The Last Lonely Saturday, Col-Dee, and The Clouds Above, and Keeping Two.
  
  

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  Ed Brubaker

  Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
  
  Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed.
  
  In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.

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  Charles Burns

  Charles Burns is an American cartoonist and illustrator.
  Burns grew up in Seattle in the 1970s. His comic book work rose to prominence in Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly magazine 'RAW' in the mid-1980s. Nowadays, Burns is best known for the horror/coming of age graphic novel Black Hole, originally serialised in twelve issues between 1995 and 2004. The story was eventually collected in one volume by Pantheon Books and received Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz awards in 2005. His following works X'ed Out (2010), The Hive (2012), Sugar Skull (2014), Last Look (2016) and Last Cut (2024) have also been published by Pantheon Books, although the latter was first released in France as a series of three French comic albums.
  As an illustrator, Charles Bur

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  Minetarō Mochizuki

  Minetarō Mochizuki (望月峯太郎) is a manga artist. He is best known for his apocalyptic thriller series Dragon Head (ドラゴンヘッド Duragon Heddo), as well as the comedy series Mai Wai. Mochizuki has also written one-shot manga such as Zashiki Onna.

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  Junji Ito

  Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
  Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
  His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
  Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her

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  Massimo Mattioli

  Massimo Mattioli (1943-2019) was an Italian cartoonist, illustrator and screenwriter.
  Born in Rome, Mattioli debuted in the middle of the 60's with the comic Vermetto Sigh for the magazine 'Il Vittorioso'. After some cartooning experiences in London and Paris, in the early 70's he returned to Italy and created the character Pasquino for the newspaper 'Paese Sera'. He also began a collaboration with the comics magazine 'Il Giornalino', that lasted more than forty years. Therein, he published Pinky (1973-2014), a whimsical and surrealist strip about a pink rabbit reporter.
  In 1977, together with Stefano Tamburini and Marco D'Alessandro, Mattioli founded the seminal underground magazine 'Cannibale'. He remained a frequent contributor to both 'C

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  Patrick Kyle

  Patrick Kyle is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Canada.

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  Blexbolex

  Blexbolex is a French comics artist and illustrator. Born Bernard Granger in Douai, he studied screen printing (sérigraphie) at the School of Fine Arts (L’école européenne supérieure de l'image) in Angoulême. His first works were self-published, and later he contributed to Popo Color, Fusée, and Ferraille. His highly stylized, ligne claire illustration, inspired by the films of Jacques Tati and whodunits of the 1950s and 1960s, gradually gained an audience. In Germany, he directed an art studio at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee) and he also worked regularly with a number of editors, including Thierry Magnier, Pipifax, United Dead Artists, Les Requins-Marteaux, and Cornélius. Blexbolex has c

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  Shigeru Sugiura

  Shigeru SUGIURA (in Japanese: 杉浦茂, 1908–2000) was one of the most popular manga artists of the mid-twentieth century and a pioneer of Pop Art in Japan. Originally trained as a painter, he debuted as a cartoonist in 1932 under the tutelage of Tagawa Suihō, a leading author of children’s manga in the prewar period. In the 1950s, Sugiura himself became a star for his zany, slapstick children’s adventure comics featuring ninja, samurai, cowboys, aliens, and other fantastical characters culled from Japanese popular fiction, Hollywood movies, and American comic books. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he experienced a second boom in popularity, this time for absurdist, surrealistic comics drawn for an adult audience. Due to his inclusion in seminal ar

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  Tarō Bonten

  Associated Names:
  ISHII Kiyomi
  凡天 太郎.
  
  Bonten Tarō was born as Ishii Kiyomi in Tokyo in 1928.
  He was also a tattooist and enka ballad singer.
  Wrote gekiga 'Half-breed Rika' in Shukan Myojo, which later into movie by Tōei Studios.

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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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