COMIC ARTIST

Sanpei Shirato

1932 - 2021

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Noboru Okamoto (Japanese: 岡本 登, Hepburn: Okamoto Noboru; February 15, 1932 – October 8, 2021), known by the pen name Sanpei Shirato (白土 三平, Shirato Sanpei), was a Japanese manga artist and essayist known for his social criticism as well as the realism of his drawing style and the characters in his scenarios. He is considered a pioneer of the controversial gekiga genre of adult-oriented manga. The son of the Japanese proletarian painter Toki Okamoto, his dream to become an artist equal with his father started when he became a kamishibai artist. He is also known for his work published in the early issues of the manga anthology magazine Garo in 1964, which he began publishing so as to serialize his comic Kamui. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sanpei Shirato is the 105th most popular comic artist (down from 93rd in 2019), the 1,256th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,115th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Japanese Comic Artist.

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Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Sanpei Shirato ranks 105 out of 226. Before him are Jijé, John Romita Jr., Marco Rota, Yōichi Takahashi, Sergio Toppi, and Willy Vandersteen. After him are Hajime Isayama, Jacques Martin, Jean Tabary, Masamune Shirow, Claire Bretécher, and Ōten Shimokawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sanpei Shirato ranks 329. Before him are Mongo Beti, Lola Beltrán, Otto Schily, Yash Chopra, Vladimir Yengibaryan, and Sergio Toppi. After him are Leonid Spirin, Marc Fumaroli, Frank Beyer, Billy Evans, Marcia Neugebauer, and Richard Lugar. Among people deceased in 2021, Sanpei Shirato ranks 366. Before him are Peter Fleischmann, Adrián Campos, Petr Kellner, Tatyana Tolstaya, Almudena Grandes, and Jessica Walter. After him are Janet Moreau, Cornelius Sim, Robert Marchand, Patrick Juvet, Kees de Jager, and Chris Barber.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sanpei Shirato ranks 1,256 out of 6,245. Before him are Yōichi Takahashi (1960), Kenjiro Takayanagi (1899), Ryūsei Nakao (1951), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Yukio Ozaki (1858), and Noboru Terada (1917). After him are Hisashi Kaneko (1959), Gozo Shioda (1915), Tadashi Imai (1912), Saneatsu Mushanokōji (1885), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), and Kiichiro Higuchi (1888).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In Japan

Among comic artists born in Japan, Sanpei Shirato ranks 36. Before him are Moto Hagio (1949), Tite Kubo (1977), Chica Umino (null), Yumiko Igarashi (1950), Tsukasa Hojo (1959), and Yōichi Takahashi (1960). After him are Hajime Isayama (1986), Masamune Shirow (1961), Ōten Shimokawa (1892), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Keiko Takemiya (1950), and Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970).

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