COMIC ARTIST

Naoki Urasawa

1960 - Today

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Naoki Urasawa (Japanese: 浦沢 直樹, Hepburn: Urasawa Naoki; born January 2, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old, and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor, Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice, and the Kodansha Manga Award once. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Naoki Urasawa is the 33rd most popular comic artist (down from 25th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from Japan (down from 294th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Naoki Urasawa ranks 33 out of 226. Before him are Steve Ditko, Kentaro Miura, Milo Manara, Quino, Alan Moore, and Eiichiro Oda. After him are Hirohiko Araki, John Romita Sr., Don Rosa, Cabu, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Will Eisner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Naoki Urasawa ranks 75. Before him are Barham Salih, Steve Vai, Fayez al-Sarraj, Neil Gaiman, Bushra al-Assad, and Kim Wilde. After him are Hirohiko Araki, Walter Zenga, Gia Carangi, Jeremy Clarkson, Pierre Littbarski, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoki Urasawa ranks 534 out of 6,245. Before him are Takeshi Natori (null), Yukiya Amano (1947), Tokugawa Ienari (1773), Shibata Katsuie (1522), Eiichiro Oda (1975), and Kozo Arai (1950). After him are Hirohiko Araki (1960), Masahito, Prince Hitachi (1935), Fusako Shigenobu (1945), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Michio Ashikaga (1950), and Takao Nishiyama (1942).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Naoki Urasawa ranks 9. Before him are Rumiko Takahashi (1957), Tsugumi Ohba (1950), Go Nagai (1945), Leiji Matsumoto (1938), Kentaro Miura (1966), and Eiichiro Oda (1975). After him are Hirohiko Araki (1960), Katsuhiro Otomo (1954), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), Shigeru Mizuki (1922), and Yoshihiro Togashi (1966).

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