Kiriko Nananan

Kiriko Nananan (Japanese魚喃 キリコ, Nananan Kiriko, born December 14, 1972 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist who mainly draws Josei manga.

Career

Influenced by the comics of Kyoko Okazaki and Murasaki Yamada, she published her first work in 1993 with the short story Hole in the alternative manga magazine Garo. There were other short stories for Garo and other magazines. For example tells Heartless Bitch of the conversation between two girlfriends, which tells an example cynically of their meeting with a man from the previous day. At the Haruchin series, which consists of several one-sided Gagcomics, she worked from 1995 to 1997 for the Hanako magazine.

With blue processed Nananan own experiences. In the manga, in 1996 in the magazine Comic Are! was published, it's about a gay love affair between two high school students. In strawberry shortcakes, which from 2001 to 2002 in Feel Young and its sister magazine Zipper comic appeared, four young women living in Tokyo and their thoughts and problems to their daily lives, their love lives and their goals in the foreground. Both blue and strawberry shortcakes were implemented as a real movie. In the film version of strawberry shortcakes Nananan himself took over one of the four main roles.

Nananan is considered a member of " La Nouvelle Manga " movement of living in Japan Frenchman Frédéric Boilet. Outside of Japan, she gained fame through her ​​blue manga. Her work is translated into English, German and French. At the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême 2008 she won the Prix de l' école supérieure de l'image.

Works

• Hole, 1993
• Water, 1993-1995
• Haruchin (ハルチン), 1995-1998
• Blue, 1996
• Love and other tall tales (痛 々 しい ラヴ, Itaitashii Love ), 1997
• Kabocha to Mayonnaise (南瓜 と マヨネーズ), 1998-1999
• Strawberry shortcakes, 2001-2002
• High Time (ハイ タイム, haitaimu ), 2003-2005