Maki Sasaki
Born October 18, 1946 is a Japanese illustrator, picture book writer, and manga artist. His avant-garde comics are characterized by non-sequiturs and absurd imagery, being called "anti-manga".
Maki Sasaki
- Born
- 1946 · Nagata-ku.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- mangaka · illustrator · comics artist
- Education
- Kyoto City University of Arts
- Languages
- Japanese
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Born October 18, 1946 is a Japanese illustrator, picture book writer, and manga artist. His avant-garde comics are characterized by non-sequiturs and absurd imagery, being called "anti-manga".
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Maki Sasaki (born 1946) is a comics artist, illustrator and mangaka, of Japanese nationality. The comics artist was born in Nagata-ku. Maki Sasaki was educated at Kyoto City University of Arts. Languages used include Japanese.
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Sasaki was born in 1946, on the outskirts of Kobe, from a poor background. His parents ran a printing studio. He studied art at Kyoto City University of Arts, but dropped out, unable to afford the required art materials. Sasaki admired the nonsense works of manga artist Shigeru Sugiura and the underground magazine Garo. In 1966, Sasaki made his debut as a manga artist with "Yoku Aru Hanashi", published in Garo. He did other stories for the same magazine, such as the 1967 one-shot "Tengoku De Miru Yume" (天国でみる夢). Since 1973 Sasaki left manga to write and draw picture books, having published titles such as "Yappari Okami" and the "Monsieur Meuniere" series. Sasaki also illustrated book covers, among them some of the original editions of the early Haruki Murakami works.
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1946
Maki Sasaki born at Nagata-ku.
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- 1.Maki Sasaki. lambiek.net.
- 2.Back to the Avant-Garde: Sasaki Maki's Nonsense The Comics Journal. www.tcj.com. 27 July 2015.
- 3.Holmberg, Ryan. Anti-Manga: Sasaki Maki, Ishiko Junzō, and the Image (2017).
- 4.Sasaki Maki's Magical Mystery Tour. Ceiling Gallery.
- 5.Vintage avant-garde manga by Maki Sasaki ~ Pink Tentacle. pinktentacle.com.
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