COMIC ARTIST

Monkey Punch

1937 - 2019

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Kazuhiko Katō (Japanese: 加藤一彦, Hepburn: Katō Kazuhiko, May 26, 1937 – April 11, 2019), known by the pen name Monkey Punch (モンキー・パンチ, Monkī Panchi), was a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Lupin III. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Monkey Punch has received more than 590,718 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Monkey Punch is the 46th most popular comic artist (up from 48th in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 550th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Monkey Punch ranks 46 out of 226. Before him are Caran d'Ache, Shotaro Ishinomori, Guillermo Mordillo, Gosho Aoyama, Charles Addams, and Bill Finger. After him are Masashi Kishimoto, Riyoko Ikeda, Frank Miller, Naoko Takeuchi, Charles M. Schulz, and Masami Kurumada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Monkey Punch ranks 138. Before him are Bella Akhmadulina, Alberto Spencer, Amos Tversky, Aslan Usoyan, Carmen Pereira, and Ned Beatty. After him are Valentin Bondarenko, Dan Shomron, John Kennedy Toole, Tung Chee-hwa, Mintimer Shaimiev, and Jay Rockefeller. Among people deceased in 2019, Monkey Punch ranks 123. Before him are Katherine Helmond, Gershon Kingsley, Jean Starobinski, Dawda Jawara, John C. Bogle, and Godfried Danneels. After him are Jacques Loussier, Jan Stráský, Patrick Sercu, Judith Kerr, Waldo Machado, and Klaus Kinkel.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Monkey Punch ranks 633 out of 6,245. Before him are Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Tadao Takayama (1904), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Koji Miyata (1923), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), and Giant Baba (1938). After him are Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Takashi Mizuno (1931), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Masatoshi Nakayama (1913), and Itagaki Taisuke (1837).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Monkey Punch ranks 16. Before him are Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), and Gosho Aoyama (1963). After him are Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Masami Kurumada (1953), Takehiko Inoue (1967), and Yoshito Usui (1958).

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