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Kyūta Ishikawa | 石川球太 (1940–2018) was a Japanese mangaka whose impressive career spanned from the mid-1950s into the early 2000s.
Born in the Isogo district of Yokohama, he began drawing manga at a young age and was already submitting work to publishers as a teenager. He made his professional debut, in 1955, in Manga Shōnen , a magazine that played a crucial role in shaping postwar manga and was closely associated with Osamu Tezuka, the ‘God of Manga’.
Though not formally part of Tezuka’s circle, Ishikawa’s early work clearly reflects Tezuka’s influence, especially in character design and storytelling style.
One of Ishikawa’s most personal and reflective works is Isogo Monogatari, a semi-autobiographical series of short stories about his youth in the Isogo district of Yokohama. These stories were originally published in Bessatsu Shōnen Natsumanoh (1993) and reissued in full by Apple BOX Create.
In this collection, Ishikawa revisits his childhood and early artistic aspirations, while also acknowledging the formative influence of Osamu Tezuka’s work on his development. Both the visual style and narrative tone reflect a deep nostalgia, while offering subtle references to mid-century manga culture. Isogo Monogatari captures the atmosphere of 1950s Japan with remarkable precision and includes numerous allusions to contemporary manga magazines and characters of the time.
Ishikawa continued producing new work and overseeing reprints of his older material well into the 1990s and early 2000s. He died on October 15, 2018, at the age of 78, leaving behind a huge body of work that bridges shōnen adventure, spectacular fiction, and personal memoir.
("Biography | Kyuta Ishikawa" https://sultansofmanga.com/products/biography-kyuta-ishikawa)
Born in the Isogo district of Yokohama, he began drawing manga at a young age and was already submitting work to publishers as a teenager. He made his professional debut, in 1955, in Manga Shōnen , a magazine that played a crucial role in shaping postwar manga and was closely associated with Osamu Tezuka, the ‘God of Manga’.
Though not formally part of Tezuka’s circle, Ishikawa’s early work clearly reflects Tezuka’s influence, especially in character design and storytelling style.
One of Ishikawa’s most personal and reflective works is Isogo Monogatari, a semi-autobiographical series of short stories about his youth in the Isogo district of Yokohama. These stories were originally published in Bessatsu Shōnen Natsumanoh (1993) and reissued in full by Apple BOX Create.
In this collection, Ishikawa revisits his childhood and early artistic aspirations, while also acknowledging the formative influence of Osamu Tezuka’s work on his development. Both the visual style and narrative tone reflect a deep nostalgia, while offering subtle references to mid-century manga culture. Isogo Monogatari captures the atmosphere of 1950s Japan with remarkable precision and includes numerous allusions to contemporary manga magazines and characters of the time.
Ishikawa continued producing new work and overseeing reprints of his older material well into the 1990s and early 2000s. He died on October 15, 2018, at the age of 78, leaving behind a huge body of work that bridges shōnen adventure, spectacular fiction, and personal memoir.
("Biography | Kyuta Ishikawa" https://sultansofmanga.com/products/biography-kyuta-ishikawa)
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