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COMIC ARTIST

Machiko Hasegawa

1920 - 1992

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Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子, Hasegawa Machiko, January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992) was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists. She started her own comic strip, Sazae-san, in 1946. It reached national circulation via the Asahi Shimbun in 1949, and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in February 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Machiko Hasegawa has received more than 128,267 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Machiko Hasegawa is the 65th most popular comic artist (up from 69th in 2019), the 820th most popular biography from Japan (up from 859th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.24

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  • 4.08

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 65 out of 174. Before her are Art Spiegelman, Takeshi Obata, Guido Crepax, Masami Kurumada, Mitsuru Adachi, and Chica Umino. After her are Marjane Satrapi, Benoît Sokal, Richard F. Outcault, Vicar, Romano Scarpa, and Robert Crumb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 173. Before her are James Doohan, Georges Marchais, John Maynard Smith, Richard E. Bellman, Schubert Gambetta, and Stan Ockers. After her are Josip Manolić, Marie Tharp, Cornelius Ryan, Lewis Gilbert, William Conrad, and Milton George Henschel. Among people deceased in 1992, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 116. Before her are Abbas al-Musawi, Walter Andreas Schwarz, Frederick William Franz, Angela Carter, John Ireland, and Mohammad Hidayatullah. After her are František Tomášek, László Benedek, Hal Roach, Aleksandar Tirnanić, Robert Morley, and Richard Hartshorne.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 820 out of 6,048. Before her are Mayumi Tanaka (1955), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Yusuke Omi (1946), Osamu Dezaki (1943), Juzo Itami (1933), and Yūsaku Matsuda (1949). After her are Shigeru Kayano (1926), Asakura Yoshikage (1533), Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956), Prince Hisaaki (1276), Takeshi Kamo (1915), and Saigō Jūdō (1843).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 24. Before her are Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Takeshi Obata (1969), Masami Kurumada (1953), Mitsuru Adachi (1951), and Chica Umino (null). After her are Takehiko Inoue (1967), Kazuo Koike (1936), Yoshito Usui (1958), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), and Tetsuya Chiba (1939).

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