Big Comic

Big Comic (Japaneseビッグ コミック, Biggu Komikku ) is a Japanese manga magazine, founded in the 1968, every two weeks in the publishing house Shogakukan published and is aligned with the publication of his manga primarily at a readership of adult men.

The first issue of Big Comic Shogakukan published on 29 February 1968. Initially a monthly publication was planned, but was converted in April 1968 a bi-weekly basis. So the magazine is published since each 10th and 25th of each month.

The magazine works from a number of well known artist have been published, including Osamu Tezuka, Shotaro Ishinomori, Sanpei Shirato, Takao Saito, Fujiko Fujio and Tetsuya Chiba. Big Comic also includes the long-running manga series Golgo 13

The artist Shuichi Higurashi designed more than 40 years, from 1970 to 2011, the cover of the magazine, representing each a caricature of a famous Japanese personality. He was therefore awarded along with Makoto Muramatsu, title designer of the magazine Big Comic Original, with a special prize of the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1999.

Published manga series

Ongoing

• Akabee, Hiroshi Kurogane
• C- kyū Salaryman Koza, Keisuke Yamashina
• Cruise: Ishi Yamada Kohei Kōkaishi, author Masao Yajima, Hiroyuki Kikuta signatory
• Double Face, Fujihiko Hosono
• Gin no Shippo, Shinri Mori
• Golgo 13, Takao Saito
• Hana China, Yuji Nishi author, illustrator Shinji Hikino
• Kamuroba -mura e, Mikio Igarashi
• Munakata Kyōju Ikōroku, Yukinobu Hoshino
• Ogon no Rafu: Sota no Stance, Tsuyoshi Nakaima
• Somu Busōmuka Roppeita Yamaguchi, Norio Hayashi author, illustrator Ken'ichirō Takai
• Taiyo no Mokushiroku, Kaiji Kawaguchi
• Sekuhara - Kacho no Tsubuyaki, Tōru Nakajima
• Tsukiji Uogashi Sandaime, author Masaharu Nabeshima, artist Mitsuo Hashimoto

Irregular appearance

• Chūshun Komawari -kun, Tatsuhiko Yamagami
• Osozaki Jijii, Yoshinori Kobayashi
• Uchū Kazoku Nobeyama, Jiro Okazaki
• Veterinarian Dolittle, author of Midori Natsu draftsman Kiyoshi Chikuyama

Completed / not in the magazine

• Ayako, by Osamu Tezuka
• Barbara, Osamu Tezuka
• Big Wing, author Masao Yajima, artist Shinji Hikino
• Chikyu o Nomu, Osamu Tezuka
• Eagle ( Manga), Kaiji Kawaguchi
• Eulogy to Kirihito, Osamu Tezuka
• Five, Kusaka Riki
• Gekiga ObaQ, Fujiko F. Fujio
• Gekito Magnitude 7.7, Takao Yamaguchi
• Gringo, Osamu Tezuka
• Happyaku Yachō Hyori no Kewaishi, Shotaro Ishinomori
• Hidamari no Ki, Osamu Tezuka
• Hotel, Shotaro Ishinomori
• I.L., Osamu Tezuka
• Kobayakawa Nobuki no Koi, Fumi Saimon
• Kusakabe Shomei Kyuka Omiya - san, Shotaro Ishinomori
• Minotaur no Sara, Fujiko F. Fujio
• Mirai no Omoide, Fujiko F. Fujio
• MW, by Osamu Tezuka
• Notari Matsutaro, Tetsuya Chiba
• Sabu to Ichi torimono Hikae, Shotaro Ishinomori
• Sora! Flight Attendant Monogatari, author Masao Yajima, artist Shinji Hikino