COMIC ARTIST

Kazuo Koike

1936 - 2019

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Kazuo Koike (Japanese: 小池 一夫, Hepburn: Koike Kazuo; May 8, 1936 – April 17, 2019) was a prolific Japanese manga writer (gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful seinen manga, notably Lone Wolf and Cub (with Goseki Kojima, 1970–6), Lady Snowblood (with Kazuo Kamimura, 1972–3) and Crying Freeman (with Ryoichi Ikegami, 1986–8), which – along with their numerous media adaptations − have been credited for their influence on the international growth of Japanese popular culture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kazuo Koike is the 78th most popular comic artist (down from 77th in 2019), the 1,082nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 974th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Kazuo Koike ranks 78 out of 226. Before him are Romano Scarpa, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Tignous, Takeshi Obata, Jean Van Hamme, and Tetsuya Chiba. After him are Hiromu Arakawa, Quentin Blake, Richard F. Outcault, Juan Giménez, Machiko Hasegawa, and Hermann Huppen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Kazuo Koike ranks 294. Before him are Judea Pearl, Tamás Mendelényi, Jean-Claude Turcotte, Elisabeth Kopp, Diana Hyland, and Christopher Alexander. After him are Emil Loteanu, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Lino Banfi, Alex Rocco, Isacio Calleja, and K Callan. Among people deceased in 2019, Kazuo Koike ranks 253. Before him are Martin Peters, Dick Miller, Alain Barrière, Michael Gielen, Robert Ryman, and Sergei Yursky. After him are Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Chelo Alonso, Isacio Calleja, Peter Snell, Freddie Jones, and Lyndon LaRouche.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kazuo Koike ranks 1,082 out of 6,245. Before him are Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Chieko Baisho (1941), Shiho Kaneda (1965), Toshihiko Okimune (1959), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), and Ken Ogata (1937). After him are Tsutomu Seki (1930), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Miyuki Nakajima (1952), Kaoru Kakinami (1966), and Ryohei Suzuki (1949).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Kazuo Koike ranks 27. Before him are Kazuki Takahashi (1961), Yoshito Usui (1958), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Takeshi Obata (1969), and Tetsuya Chiba (1939). After him are Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Moto Hagio (1949), Tite Kubo (1977), Chica Umino (null), and Yumiko Igarashi (1950).

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