Harold Sakuishi
Harold Sakuishi (Japaneseハロルド 作 石, Harorudo Sakuishi; actually :作 石 贵 浩, Sakuishi Takahiro, born March 16, 1969 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.
Biography
In 1987 won the Sakuishi Tetsuya Chiba price, a newcomer award for cartoonist, which the manga magazine Morning forgives. This prize enabled him to publish at Kodansha, the publisher of Morning and several other manga magazines. His debut work as a professional manga artist still appeared in 1987 in Young Magazine, for which he should work in the following years further.
From 1988 to 1993, the manga series Gorillaman he achieved an initial success. The 4,300 -page, humorous manga was implemented as an original video animation (OVA ) and 1990 won the Kodansha Manga Award in the category " General or his ". His interest in baseball processed in the sports comedy Stopper Busujima, which was published from 1996 to 1998 in about 2,500 pages in Young Magazine.
From 1999 to 2008 Sakuishi recorded with the manga series Beck at its longest and most successful work. The manga was published in more than 6,000 pages in Gekkan Magazine, which is aimed at a slightly younger audience than its previously created works. Beck is about the career of a Japanese indie rock band as well as the lives of the band members and includes many allusions to the international rock music scene. Sakuishi, himself a fan of rock music, won for Beck 2002 Kodansha Manga Award in the category " Shōnen ". The manga was made into a anime television series and is translated into several languages. The 33 anthologies to Beck sold over twelve million copies.
2003 created the author of Under the Bridge an autobiographical comic short story about a meeting with the U.S. rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Works
- Gorillaman (ゴリラーマン, Gorirāman ), 1988-1993
- Bakaichi (バカイチ), 1995
- Stopper Busujima (ストッパー 毒島, Sutoppā Busujima ), 1996-1998
- Beck, 1999-2008
- Under the Bridge, 2003