Shigeru Mizuki

Shigeru Mizuki () is a Mangaka Japan board born the March 8th 1922 with Sakaiminato. It is one of the large founders of the manga of horror, specializing in the stories of monsters and phantoms (with Yôkai , Kappa and Tengu ).

Left-handed person having lost his left arm lasting the Second world war in New Guinea, it will overcome this traumatism and learned how to draw right-hand man to become author of manga to the beginning of the year 1950.

Its manga most famous is without question Ge Ge Ge No Kitaro , which was adapted in Anime and Video game and whose main character is Kitaro, a hunter of yôkai .

Mizuki based many its books on the yôkai , these supernatural creatures populating the world of the human ones secretly. He tells his initiation in this imaginary world by an old woman, friend of his family, in NonNonBâ (the equivalent of Same in Japanese).

He received the Prix of the manga Kōdansha in 1965 for Terebi-kun (テレビくん, petit' TV), and in 2007 the jury of the festival of Angouleme allotted the to him Prix of the best album, for the manga NonNonBâ (Cornélius editions.)

French works

NonNonBâ , ED. Cornélius 2006, price of the Best Album 2007 in Angouleme.
3, rue des mysteries (and other stories) , ED. Cornélius, 2006
Kitaro pushing back it , ED. Cornélius, January 2007.
Kitaro pushing back it , volume 2, ED. Cornélius, June 2007.
Kitaro pushing back it , volume 3, ED. Cornélius, September 2007.

External bond

Official site of Shigeru Mizuki

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