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COMIC ARTIST

Shigeru Mizuki

1922 - 2015

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Shigeru Mura (Japanese: 武良 茂, Hepburn: Mura Shigeru, March 8, 1922 – November 30, 2015), also known as Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる, Mizuki Shigeru), was a Japanese manga artist and historian. He was known for his yōkai manga such as GeGeGe no Kitarō and Akuma-kun, as well as for his war stories based on his own war manga such as Shōwa-shi. He was born in Osaka, grew up in Sakaiminato, Tottori, then moved to Chōfu, Tokyo, where he remained until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeru Mizuki has received more than 515,436 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Shigeru Mizuki is the 44th most popular comic artist (up from 45th in 2019), the 532nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 619th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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  • 22

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  • 3.38

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Shigeru Mizuki ranks 44 out of 174Before him are Bill Finger, Kentaro Miura, Yoshihiro Togashi, Philippe Honoré, Shotaro Ishinomori, and Gosho Aoyama. After him are Naoki Urasawa, Guillermo Mordillo, Caran d'Ache, Monkey Punch, Charles M. Schulz, and Enki Bilal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Shigeru Mizuki ranks 122Before him are Bea Arthur, Juan Antonio Bardem, Taro Kagawa, Patrick Macnee, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, and Jonas Mekas. After him are Pierre Hadot, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Dana Zátopková, Gershon Kingsley, Leo Tindemans, and Manuel Fraga. Among people deceased in 2015, Shigeru Mizuki ranks 98Before him are Philippe Honoré, André Brink, Kenzo Ohashi, John Guillermin, Patrick Macnee, and Satoru Iwata. After him are Ieng Thirith, Percy Sledge, Magali Noël, Tadahiko Ueda, Jaakko Hintikka, and Adrian Frutiger.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeru Mizuki ranks 532 out of 6,048Before him are Waichiro Omura (1933), Kiyoo Kanda (1900), Norio Yoshimizu (1946), Shiro Teshima (1907), Gosho Aoyama (1963), and Masayoshi Ōhira (1910). After him are Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Emperor Junnin (733), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Mako (1933), and Tokugawa Ieharu (1737).

Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Shigeru Mizuki ranks 15Before him are Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Kentaro Miura (1966), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), and Gosho Aoyama (1963). After him are Naoki Urasawa (1960), Monkey Punch (1937), Naoko Takeuchi (1967), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), Takeshi Obata (1969), and Masami Kurumada (1953).

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