COMIC ARTIST

Katsuhiro Otomo

1954 - Today

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Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro, born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. He was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, promoted to Officier of the order in 2014, became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012, and was awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government in 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Katsuhiro Otomo has received more than 1,560,256 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Katsuhiro Otomo is the 36th most popular comic artist (down from 35th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Japan (down from 419th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 36 out of 226. Before him are Don Rosa, André Franquin, Cabu, Yoshihiro Togashi, Hirohiko Araki, and Winsor McCay. After him are Shigeru Mizuki, Will Eisner, Philippe Honoré, Caran d'Ache, Shotaro Ishinomori, and Guillermo Mordillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 72. Before him are Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ilan Ramon, Shuji Nakamura, Andrei Karlov, Rashad al-Alimi, and Chris Evert. After him are Roberto Dinamite, Oscar, Filip Vujanović, Jeffrey Sachs, Mango, and Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 435 out of 6,245. Before him are Mamoru Oshii (1951), Noritaka Hidaka (1947), Emperor Shijō (1231), Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), and Kiichi Miyazawa (1919). After him are Satoshi Kon (1963), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Takeo Fukuda (1905), Eisai (1141), Yukio Tsuda (1917), and Muryeong of Baekje (462).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 12. Before him are Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Go Nagai (1945), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), and Hirohiko Araki (1960). After him are Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Gosho Aoyama (1963), Monkey Punch (1937), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), and Riyoko Ikeda (1947).

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