Gō Tanabe

The recorded working language is Japanese. The field of work recorded is literary activity, comic and manga. Lovecraft is recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are Kasane Swamp. Distinctions recorded are Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for a Series and Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel.

• Name — Gou Tanabe • Native Name — 田邊剛 • Born — 1975 • Birthplace — Tokyo • Occupation — Manga artist • Known for — Adaptation of Lovecraft's work

In Q4 2005, in the midst of a nonproductive period, he was exploring new ideas for "stories about monsters with no positive outcome". His publisher introduced him to the Cthulhu Mythos by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. In a subsequent interview with CNews2, Tanabe said how he was impressed by characters who "lose all hope and appetite for life. It is this common thread in Lovecraft's stories that particularly struck me". In 2007, he drew the romantic drama Kasane in the magazine Comic Beam, published in the same year by Enterbrain, as well as The Outsider, loosely adapted from H. P. Lovecraft's short story. In 2012, he drew an adaptation of Mr. Nobody in Monthly Comic Ryū and it was also subsequently published in three bound volumes by publisher Tokuma Shoten. In 2015, he drew Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space in Comic Beam, which was published by Enterbrain. In 2016, Enterbrain published further Lovecraft adaptations of The Haunter of the Dark and At the Mountains of Madness. In 2018, he drew Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, followed by The Call of Cthulhu in 2019. On March 12, 2021, he completed Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

• Stories by other authors: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov´s The House with the Mezzanine, Maxim Gorky´s Twenty-six Men and a Girl, Marley Caribu´s A Barnstormer on Pont-Neuf, Sanyutei Encho´s Kasane Souetsu Goroshi and Gou Tanabe´s Ju-ga • Also adapted: The Temple and The Nameless City Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2017; * Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2025; • Also adapted: Dagon • 4 Volumes Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2019 in 2 Volumes; * Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2025; * Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2024; • 2 Volumes Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2023; • 3 Volumes • Also adapted: Celephaïs and The Other Gods • Also adapted: To a Dreamer, Polaris, The Terrible Old Man, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Silver Key, and Azathoth *

• Kasane Based on the rakugo horror story Ghosts of Kasane Swamp by Sanyutei Encho. • Volume 1, 2007 • Volume 2, 2007 • ゲニウス・ロキ 異形建築家阿修羅帖控 • Volume 1, 2011 • Mr. Nobody • Volume 1, 2012 • Volume 2, 2013 • Volume 3, 2014 • Saudade Based on Lafcadio Hearn's The Story of O-Tei, Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist, Tao Yuanming's The Peach Blossom Spring and 3 original stories by Marley Caribu: Fortune Teller Warika, Hanging stand and Competition • Volume 1, 2015