1922 Shigeru Mizuki

Born in Sakaiminato, Japan, in 1922.

Born in a small fishing village in Tottori Prefecture, Shigeru Mizuki is

one of the most well-known manga authors in Japan with a long career in his
backs. Mizuki, whose real name is Shigeru Mura, was a curious child and
a happy childhood. He loved to eat, draw, and daydream about ghosts
about those that NonNonBa, an old woman who believed in them wholeheartedly, talked to him.

At just twenty years old, he is enrolled in the Japanese army and sent to the jungle of
New Guinea, where you will live a true nightmare: contract malaria, attend to
the death of most of his companions and loses his left arm in a
bombing. Those traumatic experiences will help him to draw Operation Death.

In 1957, after a life already too rich in memories and wounds, he begins his career.
as a manga author, becoming one of the great storytellers
from his country. Throughout his entire work, Mizuki has continually shown his deep
understanding of the human soul and the empathy that it has always felt for all
forms of life.

Shigeru Mizuki, creator of Kitaro, has won the Best Album Award at the Salon.
Angoulême International Comics Festival 2007 by NonNonBa, and the 'essential' award
"heritage" of the Angoulême hall 2009, for Operation Death, both published by
Astiberri.

1928 Osamu Tezuka

Born in Osaka on November 3, 1928, and died on February 9, 1989.

He was a comic book artist and animator from Japan, often referred to as the
father of manga
production and the influence of its techniques, with the abandonment of comics
that only used a few panels for the story manga (or long-duration mangas)
with a much more elaborate plot) and the development of the tankoubon format, which
currently thriving worldwide for manga editing.

He grew up in an open-minded family, reading comics and watching movies.

Walt Disney. He studied medicine, although he ultimately chose the professions that
I preferred: manga and animation. His works in both fields had a great
impact on the education of post-war Japanese youth. Changed the concept
of Japanese comic introducing new styles and reaching to produce more than 700
works and more than 150,000 pages before his death, at the age of 60, on February 8
since 1989. The use of pioneering techniques, the abundance of its production and its
innovative treatment of genres earned him descriptions such as
father of manga

Tezuka's work earned him numerous awards during his lifetime. Its publication in other
countries, following his death, has also meant various awards for him
posthumously. Author of a practically unbounded work, among his titles
notable creations include Astroboy (EDT, 2003-2008), Fénix (Planeta DeAgostini,
2013), Buda (Planeta DeAgostini, 2002-2003) and Adolf (Planeta DeAgostini, 2010).

1934 Yasutaka Tsutsui

Yasutaka Tsutsui (September 24, 1934) is a science fiction novelist and

Japanese actor born in Osaka. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize.
1987. He also won the Izumi Kyoka Prize in 1981, the Kawabata Yasunari Prize in
1989 and the Nihon SF Taisho Award in 1992. His work is recognized for its dark humor.
satirical content that has caused him problems in his country. Controversial creator,
when addressing topics considered taboo by Japanese society, such as disabilities
or the monarchical system, started a strike from 1993 to 1996, in order to protest
due to the excessive censorship of Japanese publishers.

Many of his works have been adapted into film and television, among them one stands out.
from her first novels Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
time) (1967) adapted into a film in 1983 and a television series in 1994. Another
his novel, Paprika (1993), was adapted into an animated movie by the
Director Satoshi Kon in 2006. Many of his works have served as scripts for
numerous 'mangas'.

Masahiko Matsumoto

Masahiko Matsumoto (Osaka, 1934-Tokyo, 2005) was, along with Yoshihiro Tatsumi and
other young cartoonists one of the founding members of the gekiga movement that
revolutionized Japanese comics in the sixties.

Prolific author throughout the fifties, in the following decade he slows down.
its production and turns its work into something more personal, managing to reflect the
emotional and social situation of an entire country. Matsumoto leaves with his production more
a tribute to the human and artistic adventure of which it was a witness and
protagonist.

1935

Born in Osaka (1935-2015), Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a mangaka credited with

extensively the beginning of the Japanese artistic movement known as gekiga, a
alternative comic style in Japan aimed at an adult audience
illustrated, having allegedly coined the term in 1957.

His works have been translated into several languages, the Canadian publisher Drawn
and Quarterly has embarked on a project to publish an annual compendium of its
work focusing on their most outstanding works of a year (starting from
1969), edited by American cartoonist Adrian Tomine. It is known
also for their participation in the alternative and experimental manga magazine,
Garo.

His work, published in numerous countries, has influenced entire generations of

Japanese authors.

In 2011, Eric Khoo directed Tatsumi, a feature film based on both A Life
errant, his autobiography, as in some of his short stories.

1936 Takao Saito

Takao Saito ( , Saito Takao) (Wakayama, Japan, November 3, 1936 - 24

September 2021) was a Japanese mangaka. He was known for his most successful
work called Golgo 13. Married to the artist Setsuko Yamada.

This mangaka should not be confused with Takao Saito who is a director of
photograph of many Akira Kurosawa films.

Saito was the son of a barber. During his time at elementary and high school,
he was the best in the class regarding fights and drawings. After graduating
from Junior High School in Osaka, it was decided to become a mangaka,
influenced by the movies of the moment such as King Kong and War of the Worlds.

Takao made his professional debut with his work called Air Duke in 1955. In the year
In 1958, he moved to Tokyo. There he began to create comics along with seven others.
artistas ( (Shoichi Sakurai) K
Mizuno). Since April 1960, he started working at Saito Production company,
where it had about 19 employees. In 1971, it started its true career.
Professional. In 1976, Takao won the Shōgakukan Prize in the category
seinen/general for his work Golgo 13.

He passed away on September 24, 2021, due to pancreatic cancer.

Selected works
Golgo 13
Shadow Hunting
Survivor
4-issue James Bond manga published in 1964
Onihei Hankachō (art)

1936 Kazuo Umezz

UME began to draw professionally in the 1950s, is undoubtedly the

the most influential horror manga artist in history. Among his many works of
terror and science fiction stand out The Boy with Cat Eyes; Orochi; the
essential Classroom on the Drift; Ultraman (manga adaptation of the series
television). His popular comedy series Makoto-Chan confirms that Umezz is also a
consummate humor artist. In 2014, he directed Mother, an autobiographical film
starring Kataoka.

1937 Yoshiharu Tsuge

Yoshiharu Tsuge was born in 1937 in Tokyo. A mysterious and elusive character, he is the
creator of one of the most unique and innovative works within the industry
of the manga. Its publications could be framed within three distinct blocks:
one inspired by travels, another by dreams, and the last one, which belongs to The
man without talent, which is autobiographical and nostalgic. All his stories are
raw and sprinkled with dreamlike and surreal colors.

In 1987, he published Farewell, his last work. He never drew again. His life
constantly on edge between poverty and depression, he broke down. He decided
to stay on the sidelines of society or, rather, chose to do so once and for all.
He ventured into several failed businesses (selling cameras, for example), but the
boredom always ended up conquering him. If he stopped drawing it was not for a reason
concretely, she simply stopped doing it.

1944

He is a Japanese mangaka. Ryoichi was an assistant to the mangaka Shigeru Mizuki as well.
the year 1966. In 2001, he won the Shōgakukan Award in the general category for his
manga called Heat. Ryochi became a professor at the University of Art.
Osaka in the year 2005. Ikegami has worked on numerous series of quite
acceptance by the public. Their most well-known works are: Mai, the Psychic
Girl with writer Kazuya Kudo, Crying Freeman, with writer Kazuo Koike,
Sanctuary and Heat with the writer Sho Fumimura. He also wrote and drew the
Spider-Man: the Manga, the manga version of Spider-Man.

His most recent work is Ryugetsusho - Gen Tsukinosuke: The Deadly Poison of Love
the Ryugetsusho or simply Beast.

1946 Hideshi Hino

Born in Manchuria in 1946.

Soon he moved with his mother to Tokyo, where the post-war climate that
breathing in Japan left a deep mark on his childhood. After watching Seppuku, the movie of
Masaki Kobayashi, Hino decided that he wanted to be a film director, but the fascination
that his classmates' feelings about his drawings led him to combine his
career as a filmmaker with that of a comic artist. His first work, Tsumetai Ase
(Cold Sweat) saw the light in 1967. After publishing in several magazines and being part of
various groups, in 1978 their first graphic novel appeared. Their inimitable
style has placed him at the forefront of horror manga and has influenced the entire
next generation of cartoonists.

1963 Junji Ito

He was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, on July 31, 1963. He was inspired from a very young age.
young for the drawings both his older sister and the work of Kazuo Umezu. Junji Ito
he began to write and draw manga as a hobby while working as a technician
dental in the 1990s. In 1987, a short story by Gekkan was presented
Halloween that won an honorable mention in the Kazuo Umezu Award (with Umezu himself)
same as one of the judges).

In addition to Kazuo Umezu, Ito has cited Hideshi Hino, Furuka Shinichi, Yasutaka
Tsutsui and H.P. Lovecraft as the main influences in his most famous works.

Some of the recurring themes in Ito's work include terror, blood,

apparently normal characters who begin to act irrationally, break
of society, deep water organisms, and the inevitability of one's own
death.

Ito's universe is also very cruel and whimsical, its characters find themselves
often victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no reason
discernible or punished out of proportion for minor offenses against a
unknown and incomprehensible natural order.

Some of her most notable works include Tomie, a series that tells the story of an immortal girl.
what drives its affected admirers to madness, Uzumaki, a series of three
volumes about a city obsessed with spirals and Gyo, a story in two
volumes where the fish are controlled by a stench of death.