COMIC ARTIST

Machiko Hasegawa

1920 - 1992

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Machiko Hasegawa (長谷川町子, Hasegawa Machiko; January 30, 1920 – May 27, 1992) was a Japanese manga artist and one of the first female manga artists. She started her own comic strip, Sazae-san, in 1946. It reached national circulation via the Asahi Shimbun in 1949, and ran daily until Hasegawa decided to retire in February 1974. All of her comics were printed in Japan in digest comics; by the mid-1990s, Hasegawa's estate had sold over 60 million copies in Japan alone. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Machiko Hasegawa is the 83rd most popular comic artist (down from 79th in 2019), the 1,110th most popular biography from Japan (down from 979th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 83 out of 226. Before her are Tetsuya Chiba, Kazuo Koike, Hiromu Arakawa, Quentin Blake, Richard F. Outcault, and Juan Giménez. After her are Hermann Huppen, Al Taliaferro, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Robert Crumb, Moto Hagio, and Tite Kubo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 255. Before her are Ignacio Eizaguirre, Heleno de Freitas, Ronald Speirs, Frances Ames, Nadir Afonso, and Silvestre Igoa. After her are Chushiro Hayashi, Harold Sakata, Siegfried Buback, Fedora Barbieri, Richard N. Frye, and Hans Ørberg. Among people deceased in 1992, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 158. Before her are Anthony Dawson, Irakli Abashidze, Claude Aveline, Marsha P. Johnson, Wilfried Dietrich, and David Miller. After her are Richard Hartshorne, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Jean Aerts, Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Karl Deutsch, and Vakhtang Chabukiani.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 1,110 out of 6,245. Before her are Yumi Watanabe (1970), Haruo Nakajima (1929), Naohiro Oyama (1974), Shigeharu Ueki (1954), Yuji Nakayoshi (1972), and Tamotsu Suzuki (1947). After her are Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), Shuntarō Tanikawa (1931), and Yūsaku Matsuda (1949).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Machiko Hasegawa ranks 29. Before her are Takehiko Inoue (1967), Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934), Takeshi Obata (1969), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Kazuo Koike (1936), and Hiromu Arakawa (1973). After her are Moto Hagio (1949), Tite Kubo (1977), Chica Umino (null), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), and Yōichi Takahashi (1960).

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