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Ulysse Malassagne

Ulysse Malassagne est réalisateur, storyboardeur, animateur, chara-designeur, auteur de BD.

Il a suivi ses études secondaires au lycée Saint-Géraud (Bac STI Arts appliqués), avant de tenter sa chance à Paris, à l’École des Gobelins.

Il passe le concours en 2007 et pendant trois ans, il se perfectionne aux métiers de l’image, de l’animation à l’illustration en passant par le story-board. Une formation pointue et exigeante qu’il valide en 2010 par un diplôme de « réalisateur de films d’animation ».

Dès sa sortie des Gobelins, Ulysse Malassagne (qui publie régulièrement ses productions sur son blog) est repéré par les professionnels.

Entretemps, il est sélectionné en 2008 au concours Jeunes Talents du Festival d’Angoulême, puis fait ses premières

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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is an award-winning visual contemporary artist, author and professional speaker. His work has been seen in public spaces, museums, galleries and private collections across the globe. Institutional collections include the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery. His large sculptural works are part of the public art collection of the Vancouver International Airport, City of Vancouver, City of Kamloops and University of British Columbia. Yahgulanaas's publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird and RED, a Haida Manga. When not writing or producing art, Yahgulanaas pulls from his 20 years of political experience in the Council of the Haida Nation

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Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.

She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

From 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cooke

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Tsutomu Nihei

See also 弐瓶勉.

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.

At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.

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Yoshiki Tanaka

Yoshiki Tanaka (田中芳樹 Tanaka Yoshiki) is a Japanese novelist. He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture and took his doctorate degree in Japanese Language and Literature in the Graduate School of Gakushūin University in Tokyo.

His major works include the fantasy novel series Arslan Senki, also known as The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and the sci-fi space opera novel series entitled Ginga Eiyū Densetsu, also known as Legend of the Galactic Heroes, both of which were adapted as anime and manga. His fantasy works also include the novel series Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings that was also adapted as anime.

Tanaka is an avid fan of Chinese history and wrote some novels set in China. He also published two arranged-translations of Chinese literature: "S

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Katsuhiro Otomo

Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga artist, film director, and screenwriter. For his works in Japanese see 大友克洋. He is perhaps best known for being the creator of the manga Akira and its anime adaptation, which are extremely famous and influential. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the recent 2006 feature film adaptation of the Mushishi manga.

Katsuhiro Otomo was born in the former town of Hasama, in Miyagi Prefecture.

As a teenager growing up in the turbulent 1960s, he was surrounded by the demonstrations of both students and workers against the Japanese government. The riots, demonstrations, and overall chaotic conditions of this time would serve as the inspiration for his best known work, Akira. Some would argue th

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Roberto Recchioni

Roberto Recchioni è un fumettista e scrittore italiano. Sceneggiatore e disegnatore, ha esordito sulla serie Dark Side per la Bdb presse. In seguito ha collaborato con Disney, Panini, Bonelli, Eura Editoriale, StarShop, Comic Art, Rizzoli, Magic Press, Astorina, e per l'americana Heavy metal; è inoltre tra i fondatori della casa editrice indipendente Factory, ormai sciolta. Creatore di John Doe e Detective Dante insieme a Lorenzo Bartoli, attualmente collabora con la Sergio Bonelli Editore in veste di sceneggiatore e curatore di testata per Dylan Dog.

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T.A. Barron

T.A. Barron grew up in Colorado ranch country and traveled widely as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the winner of the de Grummond Medallion for “lifetime contribution to the field of children’s and young adult literature” and many other awards. T. A. Barron is the author of more than 30 highly acclaimed books, many of which are international bestsellers. They include The Lost Years of Merlin (now being developed into a feature film), The Great Tree of Avalon (a New York Times bestselling series), The Ancient One (the tale of a brave girl and a magical tree), and The Hero’s Trail (nonfiction stories of courageous kids).

Though he’d dreamed as a young man of becoming a writer, he couldn’t find anyone to publish his first novel. He joined a successful

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Tōru Fujisawa

Tōru Fujisawa (japanese: 藤沢とおる; also Toru, Tôru Fujisawa or Tooru Fujisawa) began his career as mangaka in 1989 with Adesugata Junjou Boy serialized in the Weekly Shonen Magazine.

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Osamu Tezuka

Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫) was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. He is often credited as the "Father of Anime", and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during his formative years. His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga" and "the God of Manga."

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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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Bill Griffith

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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Stefan Riekeles

Stefan Riekeles is a curator based in Berlin. He has been the Artistic Director of the Japan Media Arts Festival Dortmund, and curated the 2011 exhibition 'Proto Anime Cut'.

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Koushun Takami

Koushun Takami (高見広春 Takami Kōshun) is the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and published by Viz Media and, later, in an expanded edition by Haika Soru, a division of Viz Media.

Takami was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics.

The novel Battle Royale was completed after Takami left the news company. It was reje

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Norihiro Yagi

Norihiro Yagi (八木教広 Yagi Norihiro) is a Japanese manga writer and artist from Okinawa Prefecture. He started making manga in 1990.

Norihiro Yagi is a successful manga artist, having won the 32nd Akatsuka Award for his very first work, Undeadman. Undeadman appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump and has had two sequels. Yagi's first serialized manga was his comedy-genre Angel Densetsu, which appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 2000. His most recent work, Claymore, has been running in the magazine since 2001.

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Aoi Hiiragi

柊あおい (Hiiragi Aoi).

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Stan Sakai

Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井スタンSakai Sutan; born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.

Born in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena.

He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole a

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Carlos Sampayo

Escritor y guionista, es autor de novelas, relatos cortos, poesía y guiones de historieta y cine. Además es especialista en jazz, tema sobre el que ha publicado ensayos y ficciones, y dirigido y coordinado enciclopedias. Su obra ha sido ampliamente publicada en América y en Europa. En 1974, conoció a su compatriota José Muñoz, con el que comenzó a dar vida al célebre detective Alack Sinner. Sampayo ha colaborado con Igort en una biografía en historieta de Fats Waller, y con Oscar Zárate, en los libros «Tres artistas en París», «Fly blues» y «La faille».

Writer best known for his work in comics, particularly in collaboration with artist José Muñoz. He is also poet and a literature and music (particularly Jazz) critic. He left Argentina in the

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Masasumi Kakizaki

Kakizaki, Masasumi 柿崎正澄 is a Japanese mangaka.

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Riichiro Inagaki

He is a mangaka from Tokyo, Japan. He debuted in October 2001 with Nandodemo Roku Gatsu Jū San Hi, and also wrote for the magazine Square Freeze and Love Love Santa, published in November 2001 and in February 2002 respectively. He later moved to Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, in wich he won the 7th "Story King" section in the same year.

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Gainax

GAINAX Co., Ltd. is a Japanese anime studio famous for productions such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Royal Space Force, Gunbuster, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Kare Kano, FLCL, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, and Gurren Lagann, which have garnered critical acclaim and commercial success.

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Yoichi Tsukahara

塚原洋一

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Hideo Yamamoto

山本英夫 Yamamoto Hideo , is a Japanese manga artist best known for the manga series "Ichi the Killer" (which was adapted into a live-action film in 2001) and the series, Homunculus (manga).
Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and psychology.

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Hitoshi Iwaaki

Hitoshi Iwaaki (Japanese: 岩明均 Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".

In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte. He was a finalist for the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie. In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.

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Haro Aso

AKA 麻生羽呂

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NoN

NoN (ノン) is a Japanese Mangaka.
For non personal profiles, please change the name.

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Ernie Bushmiller

Ernest Paul "Ernie" Bushmiller, Jr. (1905 - 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for creating the long-running daily comic strip Nancy. Bushmiller's work has been repeatedly addressed by other artists: Andy Warhol made a 1961 painting based on "Nancy"; the artist and poet Joe Brainard made numerous works based on Nancy; and many cartoonists have produced work directly inspired by or commenting on Bushmiller's art, including Art Spiegelman, Bill Griffith, Mark Newgarden and Chris Ware. The American Heritage Dictionary uses a Bushmiller "Nancy" strip to illustrate its entry on "comic strip."

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Akira Hiramoto

AKA 平本アキラ

Born in 1976.
Debuted in 1995 with "Sono Tomodachi ni Gimon Ari" story in Weekly Young Magazine under pen name Hiramoto Akira (平本明).

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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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Kengo Hanazawa

Kengo Hanazawa (花沢健吾 Hanazawa Kengo, born January 5, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist known for his seinen works. He won the Topic Award of the 2005 Sense of Gender Awards for Ressentiment and was nominated for the 3rd, 4th and 5th Manga Taisho for I Am a Hero.

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Tatsuki Fujimoto

Tatsuki Fujimoto 藤本タツキ (Fujimoto Tatsuki) is a Japanese manga author, mostly known for Chainsaw Man.

Awards:
- Shōgakukan Manga Award: Shōnen category for Chainsaw Man (2020)
- Harvey Award: best manga for Chainsaw Man (2021-2022)

Chinese language profiles: 藤本樹 and 藤本树.

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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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Hideo Yamamoto

山本英夫 Yamamoto Hideo , is a Japanese manga artist best known for the manga series "Ichi the Killer" (which was adapted into a live-action film in 2001) and the series, Homunculus (manga).
Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and psychology.

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Tsugumi Ohba

Tsugumi Ōba (Profile in Japanese: 大場つぐみ), born in Tokyo, Japan, is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His/her real identity is a closely guarded secret. As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga, Ōba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair, similar to a habit of L, one of the main characters of the series.

There is speculation that Tsugumi Ōba is a pen name and that he is really Hiroshi Gamō. Pointing out that in Bakuman the main character's uncle was a one-hit wonder manga artist who worked on a gag super hero manga, very similar to Gamō and Tottemo! Luckyman in all aspects. Also that the storyboards drawn by Ōba greatly resemble Tottemo! Luckyman in style.

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Shuzo Oshimi

Shuzo Oshimi (押見修造, Oshimi Shūzō) is a Japanese manga creator.
Drawn in a realistic art style, his comics tend to be psychological dramas exploring the difficulties in human relationships and often touching on disturbing situations and perversions.
Oshimi debuted in 2001 with the manga series Avant-Garde Yumeko, appeared in Kodansha's 'Monthly Shōnen Magazine.' Most of his works since then have been published by Kodansha and Futabasha.
Among his first successes the single volume manga Sweet Poolside (2004), later adapted into a live-action film, and the series Drifting Net Café (2008–2011), also adapted for TV.
Oshimi reached international acclaims with The Flowers of Evil (2009–2014) and Inside Mari (2012–2016), both adapted into successful

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Inio Asano

Inio Asano (浅野いにお, Asano Inio) is a Japanese cartoonist. He is known for his character-driven stories and his detailed art-style, making him one of the most influential manga author of his generation.
Asano was born in 1980 and produced his first amateur comics as a teenager. His professional debut happened in 2000 in the pages of the magazine Big Comic Spirits. Since then, he has collaborated with most of the major Japanese magazines of seinen manga (comics for a mature audience). Among Asano's internationally acclaimed works are: the psychological horror Nijigahara Holograph (2003-2005); the drama Solanin (2005-2006); the existentialistic slice-of-life Goodnight Punpun (2007-2013); the erotic A Girl on the Shore (2009-2013); the sci-fi De

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Makoto Yukimura

幸村誠

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Norihiro Yagi

Norihiro Yagi (八木教広 Yagi Norihiro) is a Japanese manga writer and artist from Okinawa Prefecture. He started making manga in 1990.

Norihiro Yagi is a successful manga artist, having won the 32nd Akatsuka Award for his very first work, Undeadman. Undeadman appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump and has had two sequels. Yagi's first serialized manga was his comedy-genre Angel Densetsu, which appeared in Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1992 to 2000. His most recent work, Claymore, has been running in the magazine since 2001.

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Hiroya Oku

Hiroya Oku (奥浩哉 Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka) is a mangaka who is the creator of Gantz, Zero-One and HEN, all of which have been serialized in Young Jump. He has finished working on his most renowned manga, Gantz, which began in July 2000. His manga often contain explicit violence and gore, as well as sexual situations.

He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.

He designed a character for Namco Bandai's Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Shura.

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Takehiko Inoue

Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Slam Dunk and Vagabond.

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Kentaro Miura

Kentarou Miura (三浦建太郎) was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1966. He is left-handed. In 1976, at the early age of 10, Miura made his first Manga, entitled "Miuranger", that was published for his classmates in a school publication; the manga ended up spanning 40 volumes. In 1977, Miura created his second manga called Ken e no michi (剣への道 The Way to the Sword), using Indian ink for the first time. When he was in middle school in 1979, Miura's drawing techniques improved greatly as he started using professional drawing techniques. His first dōjinshi was published, with the help of friends, in a magazine in 1982.

That same year, in 1982, Miura enrolled in an artistic curriculum in high school, where he and his classmates started p

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Raeghan Buchanan

Raeghan Buchanan is an illustrator, writer, and musician born in Eerie, PA. After more than a decade performing in hardcore, post-punk, and power pop bands, she turned her artistic focus to comics. Buchanan’s comic work often explores different areas of Black American heritage, most notably in music, like in her comic The Secret History of Black Punk (2023).

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Hirohiko Araki

Hirohiko Araki ( 荒木飛呂彦) is a Japanese manga artist. He left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.

He enjoys the baseball manga Kyojin No Hoshii (Star of the Giants); the video games Mario Kart and Bomberman; and likes Prince and other African-American singers, as well as jazz, rock, and rap.

He is a recipient the Tezuka Award for manga.

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Chihiro Harumi

Name (in native language): ハルミチヒロ

Associated Names: COA; Harumichihiro

Zodiac: Gemini

Blood Type: O

Youko Fujitani is her sister.

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Tsutomu Nihei

See also 弐瓶勉.

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉 Nihei Tsutomu, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist. His cyberpunk-influenced artwork has gained a strong cult following. He has a relatively large community of fans in Germany where his manga Blame!, NOiSE and Biomega were published by Ehapa. Blame! was also published in France and Spain by Glénat, in the US by Tokyopop and in Italy by Panini Comics.

At first he studied architecture and later it is shown up in his manga works with drawing huge structures. This became one of his general theme that makes his manga unique. His works are usually in black and white. He is also an avid fan of the video game series Halo, as he mentions in his commentary section in the Halo Graphic Novel.

Taken from Wikipedia: http

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Hirohiko Araki

Hirohiko Araki ( 荒木飛呂彦) is a Japanese manga artist. He left school before graduation from Miyagi University of Education.

He enjoys the baseball manga Kyojin No Hoshii (Star of the Giants); the video games Mario Kart and Bomberman; and likes Prince and other African-American singers, as well as jazz, rock, and rap.

He is a recipient the Tezuka Award for manga.

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Kentaro Miura

Kentarou Miura (三浦建太郎) was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 1966. He is left-handed. In 1976, at the early age of 10, Miura made his first Manga, entitled "Miuranger", that was published for his classmates in a school publication; the manga ended up spanning 40 volumes. In 1977, Miura created his second manga called Ken e no michi (剣への道 The Way to the Sword), using Indian ink for the first time. When he was in middle school in 1979, Miura's drawing techniques improved greatly as he started using professional drawing techniques. His first dōjinshi was published, with the help of friends, in a magazine in 1982.

That same year, in 1982, Miura enrolled in an artistic curriculum in high school, where he and his classmates started p

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Takehiko Inoue

Takehiko Inoue (井上雄彦) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Slam Dunk and Vagabond.

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Makoto Yukimura

幸村誠

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Jirō Kuwata

Also 桑田次郎.

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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (貞本義行) is a Japanese character designer, mangaka, and one of the founding members of the Gainax anime studio.

His notable works include Neon Genesis Evangelion character design and manga.
He is also the character designer for the .hack//Games and the Package designer for the .hack//GU games.
Also publishes with the doujinshi pen name 45yen.

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Kazuo Koike

Kazuo Koike (小池一夫, Koike Kazuo) was a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur.

Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series.

Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub), and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the "Golden Duo" because of the success of Lone Wolf and Cub.

Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans.

Kazuo Koike started the Gekika Sonjuku, a college c

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Shinji Kajio

Shinji Kajio (梶尾真治, Kajio Shinji, born 24 December 1947 in Kumamoto Prefecture) is a Japanese author of science fiction and fantasy.

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Go Nagai

Kiyoshi Nagai (永井潔 Nagai Kiyoshi, born September 6, 1945 in Wajima, Ishikawa), better known by the penname Gō Nagai (永井豪 Nagai Gō?), is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica. He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s. In 2005, he became a Character Design professor at the Osaka University of Arts. Since 2009, he is a member of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's nominating committee.

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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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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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Peter Gross

Peter Gross is an American comic book writer and artist known for such works as The Books of Magic, Lucifer and The Unwritten

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Djamila Knopf

"Djamila is an independent artist and Schoolism instructor, based in Leipzig (Germany).

She creates illustrations that evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia, and primarily focuses on personal projects. When you look at her work, you might catch a glimpse of the summers she spent strolling through the woods and fields around her grandparents' garden, and you might also see her love for Japanese animation.

If you want to be transported into a world where fantasy and reality blend into one another and that feels strange, yet familiar, you might enjoy her work. The scenes she's painting are the counterpart to our modern, hectic society: places of quiet contemplation, where nature prevails over concrete.

Art is her first love, but when she's not d

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Monkey Punch

Kazuhiko Katō known by the pen name Monkey Punch (モンキー・パンチ) was a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Lupin III.

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François Froideval

François Marcela-Froideval is a French role-playing game, videogame and comic scenarist, best known for the Black Moon Chronicles series of fantasy comic books.

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Tom of Finland

Touko Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), best known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, is often said to be the most famous Finnish artist in the world. His highly stylized homoerotic drawings had a profound influence on late twentieth century gay culture, as well as fashion and pop culture in general. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade.

Over the course of four decades he produced some 3500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated primary and secondary sex traits, with tight or partially removed clothing. Despite having created the self-assured and muscular archetype of the homosexual in his imagery, his most important messages were tolerance and

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Robert M. Pirsig

Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy K. Pirsig.

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Yama Wayama

Name (in native Japanese): 和山やま

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Kaiji Kawaguchi

Kaiji KAWAGUCHI (Japanese: 川口開治 or かわぐちかいじ) is a Japanese manga author whose works include Eagle and Zipang. Generally, his stories involve Japan and examine the moral choices that people make in extreme situations. He received the Kodansha Manga Award three times, for Actor in 1987, for The Silent Service in 1990, and for Zipang in 2002. He has also received the Shogakukan Manga Award, for A Spirit of the Sun in 2006 and Kūbo Ibuki in 2014.

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Innocent Chizaram Ilo

Innocent Chizaram Ilo is an Igbo author. They live in Lagos.

They won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African Region), and the 2021 Nommo Short Story prize.

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Jordi Wild

Jordi Carrillo de Albornoz, conocido bajo el seudónimo de Jordi Wild, es un youtuber, actor, y modelo español.

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Óscar Martín

Óscar Martín Isidro es un historietista y editor catalán especializado en historieta infantil y protagonizada por animales antropomorfos.

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Yasuhisa Hara

Name (in native language) :
原泰久

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Shōtarō Ishinomori

Shōtarō Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎) was a Japanese manga artist and cartoonist. Known as the "King of Manga", he is regarded as one of the most influential manga artists of all time.

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Anusha Rao

Anusha S Rao is scholar of Sanskrit and religion, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Toronto. A regular columnist for the Deccan Herald, her column, entitled 'Sans the Sacred,' features witty ancient Sanskrit takes on contemporary issues.

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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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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (安彦良和) is a Japanese manga artist, animator, character designer, anime director, illustrator, and novelist. He was born in Engaru Town, Monbetsu District, Hokkaido, and currently resides in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture.

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Isabel Sterling

Isabel Sterling is a master coach and author of sapphic romance for teens and adults. Their novels include These Witches Don’t Burn, This Coven Won’t Break, The Coldest Touch, and the forthcoming With All My Haunted Heart. She lives with her spouse and fur-babies in Central New York, where the winters are frigid, the summers are too hot, and autumn is perfect.

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LRNZ

Lorenzo Ceccotti (aka LRNZ) is an artist and designer based in Rome, Italy. Born in 1978. He was a member of the SUPERAMICI collective together with Ratigher, Dr. Pira, Tuono Pettinato and Maicol & Mirco. He was one of the five pillars of the design studio Chimp Co., later to be known as Studio Brutus.

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Benjamin Lacombe

Benjamin was born in Paris in 1982.
In 2001, he attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris (ENSAD) where he pursued his artistic education. In addition to his studies, he worked as an advertising and animated movie artist before completing his first comic series at the age of 19, along with a few other illustrated books…
His final project « Cherry and Olive », , which he has both written and illustrated, became his first children’s book and was published by Les Éditions du Seuil in March 2006. The following year, it was released by Walker Books (USA) and nominated one of the top 10 children’s books for the year 2007 in the U.S.A. by the prestigious weekly news magazine Time.
Since then, Benjamin has written and illust

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Michael Lesy

Michael Lesy’s books include Angel’s World and Long Time Coming. In 2006 he was named one of the first United States Artists Fellowship recipients, and in 2013 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. A professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College; he lives in Massachusetts.

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Leticia S. Murga

Soy Leticia S. Murga aunque es posible que hayas oído hablar de mí como «la mitad de Kendall Frost». Estudié Traducción e Interpretación y desde hace años me dedico a la localización de videojuegos. He trabajado en títulos como World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Wildstar o The Long Dark, por mencionar algunos. Pero si te soy sincera, me metí a traductora porque era una escritora frustrada y aquello se parecía bastante a escribir. Por suerte, a día de hoy puedo decir que esa frustración es cosa del pasado y que ya no me da vergüenza decir que soy escritora. Escritora. ¡Qué gusto poder decirlo! He publicado algunos relatos en antologías y soy co-autora de la serie Diabolus in Musica publicada por la editorial Café con Leche. También fui uno de l

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Bryan Talbot

Talbot began his comics work in the underground comix scene of the late 1960s. In 1969 his first work appeared as illustrations in Mallorn, the British Tolkien Society magazine, followed in 1972 by a weekly strip in his college newspaper.

He continued in the scene after leaving college, producing Brainstorm Comix, the first three of which formed The Chester P. Hackenbush Trilogy (a character reworked by Alan Moore as Chester Williams for Swamp Thing).

He started The Adventures of Luther Arkwright in 1978. It was originally published in Near Myths and continued on over the years in other publications. It was eventually collected together into one volume by Dark Horse. Along with When the Wind Blows it is one of the first British graphic novels

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Denis Lapière

Né en 1958 à Namur, Denis Lapière se lance dans des études de sociologie, après avoir un peu goûté aux frissons de la course automobile. Au milieu des années 1980, il fait partie des fondateurs la librairie Tropica BD à Charleroi, qui devient le point de rencontre de bon nombre de dessinateurs. À leur contact, Lapière commence à écrire des scénarios, qui petit à petit trouvent leur place dans le paysage éditorial. Il débute dans Spirou, en fournissant des histoires courtes, puis publie son premier album en 1987 : "Mauro Caldi" avec Michel Constant aux Éditions du Miroir. En 1990, il entame "Charly" avec Magda, un thriller fantastique qui fera frémir plus d'un lecteur du journal Spirou. Dans les années qui suivent, Denis scénarise plusieurs

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Ancco

Graphic novel artist from South Korea.

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Kenji Oiwa

大岩ケンヂ Kenji Oiwa is a Japanese manga artist. Some of his major works include Goth, Welcome to the N.H.K., a one-shot, Tsukumo Happy Soul published in Shōnen Ace, Kadokawa Shoten's manga magazine, and the manga serialization of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

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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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Anthony J. Bryant

Anthony J. Bryant was an American author and editor. He worked in Japan for a period of time, and became an authority on medieval Japanese armor and samurai culture.

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Raule

Raule a brièvement suivi des cours de bande dessinée à l’École Joso. En 1993, il lance le fanzine «Tribulaciones» avec le dessinateur M. Chaves. Tous deux remportent le «Prix du meilleur scénario dessiné» du concours de BD d’El Prat del Llobregat. En 1994, le duo crée notamment «Lady Down» pour la revue «De Tebeos» publiée à Almería. En 1995 et 1996, pour les éditions Camaleón, ils collaborent au premier et au dernier numéro de «Ryu», revue manga réunissant divers auteurs hispaniques, et ils produisent «Violencia Sonica», mini-série de 4 épisodes compilés en un tome en 1997. C’est alors que Raule entame une collaboration exclusive avec Roger Ibáñez dans «Otaku», la revue manga des éditions Norma. En 1999, toujours avec Roger au dessin, il t

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Saburō Ishikawa

Kanji Name: 石川サブロウ.

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Akira Amano

Also known as 天野明.

Akira Amano is the author and mangaka of the shonen manga Katekyo Hitman Reborn!

Amano began in 1998 with a job at Weekly Young Magazine. She also held a job at Shueisha Publishing Co, Ltd.
In 2002, Amano participated in a contest for aspiring mangaka and was one of the lucky winners, with her comic Monkey Business published in Young Magazine.
In 2004, she finally found success with the humourous and classy manga Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (or, for short, just Reborn!), and that thanks to her readers' support. This new manga was advertised more and more in Shonen Jump and became a hit. Two years later, her manga was made into an anime series by Artland studios.

Her ideas for Reborn!: Amano had some crazy ideas to entertain reade

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Noriko Matsumoto

Noriko MATSUMOTO (松本紀子), author and editor for various Japanese language and JLPT manuals.

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Irene B. Trenas

Irene B. Trenas (Córdoba, 1986) se interesó por la escritura desde niña gracias a los poemas de Gloria Fuertes. Aunque licenciada en Filología Inglesa, trabaja en Integración Social con menores de barriadas en riesgo de exclusión. Ha publicado relatos y microrrelatos en distintos medios y ganado el Premio Droide de Poesía en 2022 y 2023. Ha colaborado en revistas como Droids and Druids y Pulporama, y escrito artículos para El Cadillac Negro durante ocho años. Además, fue co-charlatana durante dos años del podcast Señoras del leño, centrado en la ficción de terror. Le gustan el costumbrismo, las casas encantadas, los alienígenas, beber más zumo de naranja del que recomienda el Ministerio de Sanidad, meter a Mulder y Scully en todas las conve

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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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Motohisa Yamakage

Motohisa Yamakage - 山蔭基央 est né en 1925 et a été élevé dans une vieille famille shintoïste. À l'âge de dix-huit ans, il a été initié aux mystères du shinto et, en 1965, est devenu le 79e grand maître du shinto Yamakage. Il est diplômé d'économie de l'université asiatique de Tokyo.

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Youn In-wan

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

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Yuki Urushibara

Yuki Urushibara (漆原友紀) is a Japanese manga artist from Yamaguchi Prefecture.
She is best known for the series Mushishi, for which she received an Excellence Prize for manga at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2006 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.

She is also known by the pen name Soyogo Shima (志摩冬青 Shima Soyogo).

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Shinobu Kaitani

Japanese: 甲斐谷忍He received the prestigious Tezuka Prize in 1991 for Mou Hitori no Boku (Another Me). In 1993, his series Suisan Police Gang was serialized in Shoukan Shounen Jump. In 1995, he co-illustrated the series Sommelier in the magazine Manga Allman to great acclaim. His baseball series One Outs, ended its run in Business Jump with 20 tankoubon released.

His current serial is Weekly Young Jump's Liar Game, which has been adapted into two seasons of a highly-rated drama series as well as a forthcoming movie.

Hobbies: horses, travel
Special skill: calligraphy, spoon bending

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Masami Kurumada

Masami Kurumada ( 車田正美, Kurumada Masami, born December 6, 1953) is a Japanese and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and/or mahō shōnen. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and modern society's archetype of the true men. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and pursue to achieve courage and manhood perfection through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the best success award with Saint Seiya and the best inspiration award with Ring ni Kakero.

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Makoto Kobayashi

Makoto Kobayashi (小林まこと, Kobayashi Makoto) is a Japanese manga artist.
Kobayashi's professional career in comics started in 1978, when he won the 'Shōnen magazine New manga artist' award for his work Grapple Three Brothers.
Over the years Kobayashi has published a number of sport manga, specifically about Judo, starting from his first serialised work Sanshiro of 1, 2 (1981-1984), winner of the 1981 'Kodansha Manga Award'. However, his best known comic book, especially in the West, is What's Michael? (1984-1989), a humour strip about an orange cat, for which Kobayashi won another 'Kodansha Manga Award' in 1986.

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Marko Šelić

Marko Šelić, poznatiji kao Marčelo, (rođen 22. januara 1983. godine u Paraćinu) je srpski hip hop muzičar.
Pored muzike, Marčelo se bavi i pisanjem proze, studira srpski jezik i književnost na Filološkom fakultetu u Beogradu.
U februaru 2008. godine objavio je roman Zajedno sami (Vegamedia). Godinu dana kasnije objavio je zbirku tekstova O ljudima, psima i mišima (Vegamedia). 2012. godine izdaje roman Rubikova stolica (početak trilogije Maltrego).
Marčelo je 2006. dobio nagradu "Davorin" za najbolji rok/pop/hip-hop album iz Srbije, kao i nagradu TV Metropolis za najbolju pesmu godine, što je jedinstveno priznanje za njegovo muzičko stvaralaštvo. U poslednje vreme je više okrenut svom glavnom zanimanju - pisanju. Redovni je kolumnista dnevn

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Masahiko Matsumoto

Name (in native language): 松本正彦.

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Luc Brunschwig

Luc Brunschwig is a French comic book writer.

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Youssef Daoudi

Youssef Daoudi is a comic artist and illustrator living in France. He worked as an art director for multinational advertising firms for fifteen years before committing himself to writing and drawing graphic novels, including Monk!. He is an avid traveler, and New York is one of the most inspiring cities he’s ever visited.

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Naoki Urasawa

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