Fujio Akatsuka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Fujio Akatsuka

Japanese manga artist

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1935

Place of Birth: Luanping County, Hebei, China

Date of Death: 02-Aug-2008

Profession: mangaka

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Fujio Akatsuka

  • Fujio Akatsuka (?? ???, Akatsuka Fujio, September 14, 1935 – August 2, 2008) was a pioneer Japanese artist of comical manga known as the Gag Manga King.
  • His name at birth is ?? ??, whose Japanese pronunciation is the same as ?? ???. He was born in Rehe, Manchuria, the son of a Japanese military police officer.
  • After World War II, he grew up in Niigata Prefecture and Nara Prefecture.
  • When he was 19, he moved to Tokyo. While working at a chemical factory, he drew many manga.
  • After that, Tokiwa-so accepted him.
  • He started his career as a shojo artist, but in 1958, his Nama-chan (?????) became a hit, so he became a specialist in comic manga.
  • He won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1964 for Osomatsu-kun and the Bungeishunju Manga Award in 1971 for Tensai Bakabon.
  • He is said to have been influenced by Buster Keaton and MAD magazine. In 1965, Akatsuka established his own company "Fujio Productions Ltd.".In 2000, he drew manga in braille for the blind. Many of his manga featured supporting characters who ended up becoming more popular and more associated with their series than the main character, such as Papa (Tensai Bakabon), Iyami, Chibita (Osomatsu-kun), and Nyarome (Moretsu Ataro). In April 2002 he was hospitalized for intra-axial hematoma and was said to frequently be in a persistent vegetative state from 2004 until his death.
  • In July 2006, his second wife Machiko, who had been nursing him, suddenly died from a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  • On August 2, 2008, he died of pneumonia at a hospital in Bunkyo, Tokyo.

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