Suehiro Maruo.
Thank w3ns for the original post... I think the
one he posted is supposed to be the effects
of Datura... spooky stuff.
"Suehiro Maruo is a self-taught high school dropout and former shoplifter who began drawing comics at the age of eighteen. His first work, submitted to the weekly manga Shonen Jump, was promptly rejected. His dark style fantasy dreams didn't fit in the commercialized, mass-market magazines. It took five more years before he started drawing comics again, this time for Ero-manga. Besides trying to make a living out of his talents, it was also part of a quest for artistic freedom. Maruo draws nightmares. In the tradition of muzan-e (atrocity print) woodblock masters of the 19th century, he drew short stories of axe murders, abortion, rape and incest in as much graphic detail as the obscenity codes allowed.
But Maruo is not just another "sex and violence" manga artist - he is one of the greatest retro-artists working in the manga field today. His drawings are elegant, and he uses innovative page designs. Today, Maruo's art and stories go far beyond the readers of Ero-manga; his work is sold in deluxe hardback book format, and limited editions of his lithographed prints sell for high prices. He has realized that his work is most powerful and lyrical when he refrains from sex and violence, and so today he is working on a new series for the mainstream manga magazine Young Champion. Maruo's most famous works are 'Planet of the Jap' and 'Mr. Arachi's Amazing Freak Show'."
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Leila Marzocchi
(b. 1959, Italy)
"Leila Marzocchi is an active illustrator and cartoonist. Leila began her professional career in 1985, illustrating for various magazines. In 1990, Marzocchi started drawing manga for Kodansha magazine. She has also illustrated children's books, designed t-shirts and drawn storyboards for short films. More recently, Marzocchi published 'Bagolino Monogatari' and 'Il Sogno Di Bedo'."
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Pedro Massano
(Portugal)
"Pedro Massano was one of the artists of the magazine Visão, a satirical periodical that was very successful after the Portuguese Revolution of April 25, 1974. Massano's oeuvre is vast and varied, including humor, like his work for Mosca and Diário de Lisboa, and shockingly realistic commentary, like 'O Abutre' and 'Passarinhos'. Because of the variety of his style, both humorous and realistic, Massano's work is appreciated by adults as well as children.
Pedro Massano proved himself a master in dramatics in his comic about João Brandão, the mythical criminal of the 19th century. At the moment, Massano is working on his ambitious project 'A Conquista de Lisboa', a historical comic about a key period in the formation of Portugal."
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Mike Saenz
(USA)
"Mike Saenz was the artist of the revolutionary comic 'Shatter' in 1988. This was the first comic created entirely on a computer. An innovative breakthrough for both comics and computers, 'Shatter' attracted widespread media attention and set sales records for an independent comic. Energized by its success, Saenz continued breaking digital ground, melding comics and computers. He developed Comic Works, the first computer program for creating comics. His 'Iron Man: Crash' was the first computer drawn graphic novel. Saenz returned to the comics field in 1994 with another breakthrough. 'Donna Matrix' was the first digitally created comic. Prior to his computer comics, he was present in Eerie."
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Alain Saint-Ogan
(1895 - 1974, France)
"Alain Saint-Ogan, the son of a newspaper editor, started his career in 1913, when some of his drawings were published for the first time. He served in World War I, and became a cartoonist and newspaperman after his return. In 1925 he created the comics strip 'Zig et Puce', for the French weekly Dimanche Illustré. It was an instant success. This series featured also a penguin called Alfred, whose character became a popular mascotte, which was even taken by pilot Lindbergh in his famous plane Spirit of St-Louis, when he was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. "The Alfred" is now the most coveted prize given at the French Angoulême comics festival. In the 1950s, the series 'Zig et Puce' was taken over by Greg.
Saint-Ogan continued with a number of other comic features, such as 'Mitou et Toti', 'Prosper l'Ours', 'Monsieur Poche' and 'Touitoui'. Apart from creating comics, Saint-Ogan wrote, illustrated and became the editor of children's magazine Benjamin in 1941. During World War II he was active in the Resistance, and afterwards he went on to host a radioshow and became a TV-producer, as well as a writer of several novels and two memoires. He retired from his activities during the 1960s, and died in 1974.
Alain Saint-Ogan is widely recognized as the artist who gave a fresh impetus to French comics, introducing an art-deco-look which has inspired countless artists, including the famous Hergé. In 1967, Saint-Ogan was the first cartoonist ever to be honored by having his effigy coined on a medal."
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