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COMIC ARTIST

Leiji Matsumoto

1938 - 2023

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Leiji Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本零士, Hepburn: Matsumoto Reiji, born Akira Matsumoto (松本晟); January 25, 1938 – February 13, 2023) was a Japanese manga artist, and creator of several anime and manga series. His widow Miyako Maki is also a manga artist.Matsumoto was famous for his space operas such as Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leiji Matsumoto has received more than 788,345 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Leiji Matsumoto is the 23rd most popular comic artist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Japan (up from 288th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 23 out of 174Before him are Tsugumi Ohba, Rumiko Takahashi, Go Nagai, Steve Ditko, André Franquin, and Quino. After him are Milo Manara, Alan Moore, Winsor McCay, Will Eisner, Don Rosa, and Georges Wolinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 85Before him are Issey Miyake, Connie Francis, Frank Langella, Marcello Gandini, Eddie Cochran, and Luigi Tenco. After him are Enrico Macias, Roland Topor, Jerry West, Olga Szabó-Orbán, Giuliano Amato, and Joyce Carol Oates. Among people deceased in 2023, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 59Before him are Cormac McCarthy, Gordon Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Dick Fosbury, Karel Schwarzenberg, and Renata Scotto. After him are Hans Modrow, László Sólyom, Matthew Perry, Sixto Rodriguez, Marisa Pavan, and Viktor Belenko.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 281 out of 6,048Before him are Izumo no Okuni (1572), Katō Kiyomasa (1561), Toshio Iwatani (1925), Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127), Akira Kitaguchi (1935), and Tomiichi Murayama (1924). After him are Tameo Ide (1908), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Shūsaku Endō (1923), Emperor Yūryaku (418), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), and Empress Shōken (1849).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 6Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), and Go Nagai (1945). After him are Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966).

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