COMIC ARTIST

Leiji Matsumoto

1938 - 2023

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Leiji Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本零士, Hepburn: Matsumoto Reiji; born Akira Matsumoto (松本晟); January 25, 1938 – February 13, 2023) was a Japanese manga artist, and creator of several anime and manga series. His widow Miyako Maki is also a manga artist. Matsumoto was famous for his works such as Space Battleship Yamato and Galaxy Express 999. His style was characterized by mythological and often tragic storylines with strong moral themes, noble heroes, feminine heroines, and a love of strange worlds and melancholic atmosphere. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leiji Matsumoto is the 24th most popular comic artist (down from 16th in 2019), the 355th most popular biography from Japan (down from 207th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 24 out of 226. Before him are Rumiko Takahashi, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Bob Kane, Tsugumi Ohba, André Franquin, and Go Nagai. After him are Joe Simon, Georges Wolinski, Steve Ditko, Kentaro Miura, Milo Manara, and Quino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 92. Before him are Luigi Tenco, Mamadou Tandja, Ricardo Lagos, David Lane, Michael Rockefeller, and Jerzy Skolimowski. After him are Terence Stamp, Fela Kuti, Carlos Bilardo, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Joyce Carol Oates, and Elliott Gould. Among people deceased in 2023, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 83. Before him are Superstar Billy Graham, Álvaro Colom, Burt Bacharach, Amancio Amaro, Mircea Snegur, and Maryanne Trump Barry. After him are Otar Iosseliani, Francis Lee, Ahmed Qurei, Karel Schwarzenberg, John B. Goodenough, and Viktor Belenko.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 355 out of 6,245. Before him are Tamotsu Asakura (null), Masaru Ibuka (1908), Koji Miyata (1923), Saizo Saito (1908), Emperor Kanmu (737), and Akira Yoshino (1948). After him are Eiji Yoshikawa (1892), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Emperor Go-Uda (1267), Sada Abe (1905), Shigeo Sugimoto (1926), and Hiroshi Saeki (1936).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Leiji Matsumoto ranks 6. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akira Toriyama (1955), Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), and Go Nagai (1945). After him are Kentaro Miura (1966), Eiichiro Oda (1975), Naoki Urasawa (1960), Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), and Shotaro Ishinomori (1938).

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