Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga author and director born in 1954.
Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga author and director born in 1954.
In 1973, Katsuhiro Otomo published Mateo Falcone after Prosper Mérimée, his first story in the magazine Action Comics.
In 1977, his first big saga, Sayonara Nippon, was published. Then came Fireball, Boogie Woogie Waltz or Good Weather.
Dōmu is published between 1980 and 1981 in the magazine Action Deluxe, then in album by Futabasha. In France, it is the publishing house Les humanoïdes associés that translates it.
But his greatest success is Akira, his series started in 1982.
He won the Grand Prix d’Angoulême in 2015.
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