Kotobuki Shiriagari
is a Japanese manga artist and actor. Life Shiriagari was born in Shizuoka in 1958. He studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo. In early 1981, after graduation, he began to work as an advertising illustrator for the beer company Kirin. He maintained his regular day job, while developing his manga work, until 1994. His first manga series, launched under his pseudonym Kotobuki Shiriagari, was ''Ereki na Haru'', a strip launched in 1985 by the publisher Hakusensha. His breakthrough as an artist was the series ''Yajikita in Deep'', which he published from 1997 until 2002 in the magazine ''Comic Beam''. His series nowadays still regularly in ''Comic Beam'' and experimental magazine '' AX''. He has been teaching at the School of Progressive Arts in Kobe Design University since 2006. Between 2007 and 2009, he was a jury member of the manga division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. Sttyle He is known for his dark humor and social criticism. Known for his "gag" man ...
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Manga Artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an