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Shigeru Mizuki水木しげるalternative words: Mizuki Shigeru keywords: author , manga related topics: Gegege no Kitaro , Rental book , Shonen Magazine , Kodansha , Garo related web sites: http://www.japro.com/mizuki/ explanation: Born on March 8, 1922 at Osaka. He lost his right arm during WWII. He had been in precarious conditions just after the war as many other Japanese and earned his life by drawing for paper picture shows, rental books and an avant-garde magazine, Garo. In 1966, he was rewarded by a manga prize of Kodansha for Terebi-kun published on Shonen Magazine. He has created many monster or ghost characters but always a bit humorous like Gegege no Kitaro, Kappa no Sanpei, Akuma kun, etc. | |