COMIC ARTIST

Katsuhiro Otomo

1954 - Today

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Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro; born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. In 2005, Otomo was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, promoted to Officier of the order in 2014, and became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Katsuhiro Otomo is the 38th most popular comic artist (down from 36th in 2019), the 573rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 435th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 38 out of 226. Before him are Eiichiro Oda, Naoki Urasawa, Hirohiko Araki, John Romita Sr., Don Rosa, and Cabu. After him are Will Eisner, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Shotaro Ishinomori, Enki Bilal, Philippe Honoré, and Guillermo Mordillo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 96. Before him are Eric Gerets, Andrei Karlov, Hrant Dink, Jermaine Jackson, Roberto Dinamite, and Cindy Sherman. After him are Ray Parker Jr., Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Lorraine Bracco, Milan Martić, Alejandro Sabella, and Juliane Koepcke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 573 out of 6,245. Before him are Mitsumasa Yonai (1880), Tokutaro Ukon (1913), Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), and Takeo Kurita (1889). After him are Hidetoshi Nakata (1977), Yosano Akiko (1878), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Saitō Makoto (1858), and Rei Kawakubo (1942).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo ranks 11. Before him are Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), and Hirohiko Araki (1960). After him are Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Riyoko Ikeda (1947), and Gosho Aoyama (1963).

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